A century before the COVID-19 coronavirus, the United States, like all combatants in the Great War, wants to keep the exploding flu crisis quiet to protect morale and prevent the enemy from seeing weakness. Sound familiar? | (Correction: An earlier version of this episode contained an error. Some 675,000 AIDS deaths occurred in the United States.)
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2020: Not Your Century Goes on Hiatus
1959: The Dalai Lama Escapes
1922: Fatty Arbuckle's Third Trial
1964: The Palace Hotel Protest Leader
1981: Walter Cronkite Signs Off
1946: Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
1991: The Rodney King Beating
1991: Murder in Porn's First Family
1965: Malcolm X Suspect Arrested
1945: Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
1972: Nixon Arrives in China
1963: A Great City Forced to Drink Swill
1937: Golden Gate Bridge Disaster
1929: St. Valentine's Day Massacre
1999: Impeachment Acquittal
1967: The Pill and the Puritan Ethic
1986: Steve Jobs Buys Pixar
1956: Integration Fail at Alabama
1997: Vallejo Courthouse Bombing
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