G’day Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Peter Tosh, one of the original Wailing Wailers., who made his final headline in 1987, when shot in the head by robbers. Also on this date:
- 1469 – Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.
- 1512 – Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology (Doctor in Biblia).
- 1781 – At Yorktown, Virginia, representatives of British commander Lord Cornwallis handed over Cornwallis’ sword and formally surrendered to George Washington and the comte de Rochambeau.
- 1900 – Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck’s law).
- 1950 – Iran becomes the first country to accept technical assistance from the United States under the Point Four Program.
- 1960 – Cold War: The United States government imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba, which remains in effect today.
- 1973 – President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.
- 1987 – Black Monday – the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22%, 508 points.
- 1989 – The convictions of the Guildford Four are quashed by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, after they had spent 15 years in prison.
- 2003 – Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
- 2005 – Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
- 2005 – Hurricane Wilma becomes the most intense Atlantic hurricane on record with a minimum pressure of 882 mb.
Now for today’s Headlines Du Jour:
LIFE IS LIKE EBOLA CHERRIES:
IN LGBT NEWS:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:
SCOTUS WATCH:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
MORE OF THAT GOP OUTREACH:
TODAY IN RELIGION:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
IN INCOME INEQUALITY:
GAMERGATE EXPOSED:
FREE THE WEED!!!
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