Hello, Headliners!!! Today’s birthday girl is Teresa Brewer, one of the best selling singers of the ’50s and ’60s. Here are some of the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 351 – The Jewish revolt against Gallus breaks out. After his arrival at Antioch, the Jews begin a rebellion in Palestine.
• 1429 – Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orléans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning, wounded, to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in the Hundred Years’ War.
• 1718 – The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.




• 1763 – Pontiac’s War begins with Pontiac’s attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British.





• 1846 – The Cambridge Chronicle, America’s oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• 1915 – World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania,
  killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the
  sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the
  German Empire
• 1920 – The Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, opens the first exhibition by the Group of Seven.




• 1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees.
• 1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
• 1960 – Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
• 1992 – The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49.
• 1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
• 2000 – Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
• 2004 – American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamic militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.




• 2007 – Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.

Let’s get to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

GOP STANDS FOR “GOT OUR PRIORITIES”

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