Howdy, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Neil Innes, former-Bonzo Dog Band and Rutles. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1531 – The Virgin of Guadalupe first appears to Juan Diego at Tepeyac, Mexico City.
- 1793 – New York City’s first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
- 1851 – The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal.
- 1872 – In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African-American governor of a U.S. state.
- 1875 – The Massachusetts Rifle Association, “America’s Oldest Active Gun Club”, is founded.
- 1905 – In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
- 1953 – Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
- 1958 – The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
- 1960 – The first episode of Coronation Street, the world’s longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
- 1965 – Kecksburg UFO incident:
A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report
something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh. In 2005 NASA admits
that it examined the object. - 1965 – A Charlie Brown Christmas, first in a series of Peanuts television specials, debuts on CBS.
- 1968 – Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as “The Mother of All Demos“, publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit-mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS).
- 1979 – The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first and to date only human disease driven to extinction.
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
TODAY’S PROTESTS:
MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
TODAY IN RELIGION:
FREE THE WEED!!!
HACK ATTACKS!!!
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
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