Hello there, Headliners!Today’s birthday boy is Gene Pitney. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1600 – The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive, for heresy, at Campo de’ Fiori in Rome.
- 1621 – Myles Standish is appointed as first commander of the English Plymouth Colony in North America.
- 1801 – An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
- 1863 – A group of citizens of Geneva founded an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross.
- 1933 – The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
- 1933 – Newsweek magazine is first published.
- 1949 – Chaim Weizmann begins his term as the first President of Israel.
- 1959 – Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2 – The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
- 1965 – Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the “Sea of Tranquility” would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
- 1972 – Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model-T.
- 1996 – In Philadelphia, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
- 1996 – NASA‘s Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros.
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:
WAR IS HELL:
MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF CORPORATIONS GONE WILD:
FREE THE WEED!!!
TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:
HACK ATTACKS:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
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