It’s the last day of June, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Canadian troubadour Murry McLaughlin. Here are some of the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.




• 1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.




• 1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for “public use, resort and recreation”.




• 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.




• 1886 – The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.





• 1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity.





• 1908 – The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.







• 1922 – In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes-Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.




• 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler‘s violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.






• 1937 – The world’s first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London





• 1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.




• 1966 – The National Organization for Women, the United States’ largest feminist organization, is founded.




• 1971 – Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, reducing the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.
• 1986 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.




• 1987 – The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

INCOME INEQUALITY IN ‘MERKA:

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

THE “G” IN GOP STANDS FOR GOOFBALL:

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

TODAY IN RELIGION:

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORK:

FREE THE WEED!!!

KKKARL ROVE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

BILL KRISTOL IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

LARRY GATLIN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

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