Hello Headliners!!! It’s the 70th day of the year and the birthday of Shemp Howard. Among the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear includes:
- 1702 – The Daily Courant, England‘s first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
- 1708 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
- 1824 – The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
- 1848 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
- 1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
- 1918 – The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
- 1946 – Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.
- 2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
Had enough? Then let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:
IN LGBT NEWS:
Lesbian couple murdered and left near dumpster in Texas
The quickly shifting language of the transgender community
He, she, ze, and how to navigate a new landscape
TODAY IN RELIGION:
Right-Wing Zealots Are Already Freaking Out About The Return Of Cosmos!
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
Race, the War on Drugs
and Mass Incarceration
GOP Lawmaker Accused of
Racism for Tweet About the NBA
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
Pennsylvania trooper fatally shoots pregnant wife in the head while cleaning his gun
STARVING THE INFRASTRUCTURE:
Use of Public Transit in U.S. Reaches
Highest Level Since 1956, Advocates Report
IN OLD COCONUT GROVE:
Coconut Grove’s Blanche
Park to close through
summer to remove toxic soil
From the Not Now Silly archives:
A Century of Coconut Grove Racism ► Soilgate Is Trolleygate Writ Large
FREE THE WEED!!!
It Takes Nine Days to
Spot a Stoned Driver
MORE DISPATCHES FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:
Detroit Doesn’t Need Hipsters To Survive, It Needs Black People
Graffiti Tagger Hits One Of
The New Shinola Clocks
That Were Gifts To Detroit
IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:
Most Corrupt Town in America in
Danger of Being ‘Wiped Off the Map’
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Fox & Friends First Misspells ‘Spelling Bee’
A SIGN OF THE TIMES:
Honest Ed’s latest bargain: those zany signs
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