August 3rd was the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the PATCO strike.
Ronald Reagan fired the 11,359 striking air traffic controllers on August 5th, 1981, and banned each of them from the federal service.
Twelve years later, on August 12th, 1993, Bill Clinton lifted the ban. Hey, he did the right thing once in a while.
Don't know the date in 1980 that PATCO endorsed Reagan, but my guess is sometime in August.
PATCO website
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