Hey there, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to inventor, singer, and actress Hedy Lamarr. Here are more Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
- 1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
- 1857 – The Atlantic is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
- 1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
- 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
- 1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
- 1935 – The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
- 1938 – The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night).
- 1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.
- 1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.
- 1979 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
- 1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany, and fall of communism in eastern Europe including Russia.
- 1998 – A US federal judge orders 37 US brokerage houses to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.
- 1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
Today’s Headlines Du Jour:
IN LGBT NEWS:
6th Circuit Court of Appeals splits with other
federal appeals courts, upholding Kentucky, Michigan,
Ohio, and Tennessee’s bans. The decision sets up
a likely Supreme Court showdown over the issue.
federal appeals courts, upholding Kentucky, Michigan,
Ohio, and Tennessee’s bans. The decision sets up
a likely Supreme Court showdown over the issue.
FREE THE WEED!!!
Florida was supposed to be the first state in the South
to legalize medical marijuana. What went wrong?
to legalize medical marijuana. What went wrong?
FREE THE WEEDERS!!!
TODAY IN RELIGION:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST RACIAL SOCIETY:
MORE OF THAT GOP OUTREACH:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
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