Hello Headliners. It’s the birthday of Dirk McQuickly, also known as Eric Idle. As one of the members of Monty Python, Idle loved the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear.
- 1632 – Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
- 1638 – Swedish colonists establish the first European settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden.
- 1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
- 1867 – Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
- 1886 – Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1936 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany’s illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters.
- 1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
- 1971 – My Lai massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
- 1971 – A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers.
- 1973 – Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
- 1982 – The Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
- 1993 – Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province.
- 1999 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the internet boom.
Let’s waste no more time and get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:
IN LGBT NEWS:
Gay marriages have begun
in England and Wales!
U.S. recognizes Michigan’s same-sex marriages
up” with calls to boycott
World Cup 2018 in Russia
You know who else is fed up? Russia’s victims.
THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBNOXIOUS:
Wisc. Republican accuses
Dem of ‘murdering’
grandkid to deflect cat leg-breaking conviction
TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:
10 Poverty Myths, Busted
No, single moms aren’t the problem.
And neither are absentee dads.
TODAY IN RELIGION:
Pastor charged with sexual
battery claims devil ‘motivated
his mind’ in motel attack
MORE DISPATCHES FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:
Study cites Metro Detroit
as high-tech hotbed
THE ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORK:
Facebook “Friend”
Burglarizes Vacationers: Police
TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH:
400-lb. Florida cop charged with posing as teen girl online to get sex pics from boys
CRACK MAYOR CORNER:
Prankster wants to hire someone to follow Rob Ford around with a tuba
◄ BONUS: CRACK MAYOR CARTOON ►
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Fox’s Geraldo Rivera: Crooked politicians on the Democratic side ‘tend to be ethnic’
IN INNER SPACE:
Prisoners ‘could serve 1,000 year sentence in eight hours’
VIDEO DU JOUR:
This is EXACTLY how all the 24-hour tee vee news
channels covered the Malaysian Airliner tragedy:
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