Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to guitarist and innovator Les Paul. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 68 – The Roman emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer‘s Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
- 1534 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River.
- 1650 – The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas.
- 1732 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
- 1856 – 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa, and head west for Salt Lake City carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
- 1915 – William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson‘s Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States’ handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
- 1930 – A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
- 1934 – Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
- 1954 – McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism
has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, “You’ve
done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you
left no sense of decency?” - 1958 – Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London’s Gatwick Airport in Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
- 1967 – Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria
- 1968 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
- 1973 – In horseracing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.
- 1978 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to “all worthy men”, ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
In an attempt to reach African American customers, many U.S. businesses
began integrating their commercials—often by relying on fraught stereotypes.
began integrating their commercials—often by relying on fraught stereotypes.
TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:
GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:
FREE THE WEED!!!
ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:
HACK ATTACKS:
OUR FUTURE ROBOT OVERLORDS:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
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