Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday boy is Beach Boy Brian Wilson, who is still making wonderful music. Here are the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1756 – A British garrison is imprisoned in the Black Hole of Calcutta.
- 1782 – The U.S. Congress adopts the Great Seal of the United States.
- 1787 – Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States.
- 1837 – Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.
- 1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
- 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
- 1893 – Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
- 1943 – The Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days.
- 1945 – The United States Secretary of State approves the transfer of Wernher von Braun and his team of Nazi rocket scientists to America.
- 1948 – Toast of the Town, later The Ed Sullivan Show, makes its television debut.
- 1963 – The so-called “red telephone” is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.
- 1972 – Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
Let’s get to today’s Headlines Du Jour:
TODAY IN RELIGION:
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPSIODE OF COPS GONE WILD:
FREE THE WEED!!!
THE NEWS MEDIA IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
CNN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
FOX & FRIENDS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
BRET BAIER IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN OUTER SPACE:
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