THIS WAS A SUCKY DAY IN HISTORY

Working backwards:

1999: Baseball great Joe DiMaggio died at age 84.

1965: 4000 U.S.Marines landed in South Vietnam.

1917: Strikes & riots in St.Petersburg marked the start
of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution.

1913: The Internal Revenue Service began to levy & collect income tax.
(And that's the suckiest of all.)