This day in history

2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020.

#20yrsago $50k fines for Americans who visit Cuba https://www.cnn.com/2001/TRAVEL/NEWS/08/23/cuba.us.travelban/index.html

#20yrsago Kevin Mitnick is out of prison https://web.archive.org/web/20010827082644/http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/showtell/story/0,23008,3343816,00.html

#15yrsago EFF sues Barney the humorless, copyright maximalist dinosaur https://web.archive.org/web/20060813093642/https://www.eff.org/news/archives/2006_08.php

#10yrsago MP3tunes verdict: music lockers are legal https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/08/mp3tunes-victory-music-lockers-is-good

#5yrsago Hedge fund paid terminally ill people to sign up for “death puts” https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2016-08-16/hedge-fund-manager-profited-from-death-arbitrage

#5yrsago As America’s temperatures soar, prisoners are dropping dead https://theintercept.com/2016/08/24/deadly-heat-in-u-s-prisons-is-killing-inmates-and-spawning-lawsuits/

#5yrsago Florida prosecutor who bumbled George Zimmerman trial is really good at putting children in adult prisons for life https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/is-angela-corey-the-cruelest-prosecutor-in-america/