Eight Things To Know

Roe v. Wade; Soviet aid to North Vietnam; 1938 Long Island hurricane; Nine kings of Europe; climate change; gold mines, and more

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1. Roe v. Wade and Alabama Gov. George Wallace

2. On this date in 1910

3. Setting the record straight: Soviet military aid to Hanoi during the Vietnam War

4. The hurricane that killed 2 billion trees

5. Term of the week: ‘extreme-event clusters’

6. This week’s best ‘turn of phrase’

7. Thi…