Hey there, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Nash the Slash, who sadly died just last year. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1484 – William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop’s Fables.
- 1812 – A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term “gerrymander” to describe oddly shaped electoral districts designed to help incumbents win reelection.
- 1830 – The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
- 1885 – The Métis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada.
- 1931 – Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam.
- 1934 – The driving test is introduced in the United Kingdom.
- 1942 – World War II: The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland.
- 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends as the island is officially secured by American forces.
- 1967 – Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City
- 1971 – East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form the People’s Republic of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
- 1975 – The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
- 1979 – Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C..
- 1982 – A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C..
- 1997 – Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven’s Gate mass suicides.
- 1999 – The “Melissa worm” infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
- 1999 – A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:
Religion isn’t dying. It
may be rising from the grave.
Religion in Canada isn’t declining nearly as
fast as we think. A remarkable new survey
finds out what Canadians really believe
may be rising from the grave.
Religion in Canada isn’t declining nearly as
fast as we think. A remarkable new survey
finds out what Canadians really believe
IN LGBT NEWS:
FREE THE WEED!!!
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF CORPORATIONS GONE WILD:
ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:
TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:
ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
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