Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Doc Watson. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.
- 1820 – The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.
- 1845 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.
- 1873 – Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any “obscene, lewd, or lascivious” books through the mail.
- 1875 – The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in the Montreal Gazette.
- 1885 – The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
- 1904 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison‘s phonograph cylinder.
- 1913 – Thousands of women march in a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C.
- 1923 – TIME magazine is published for the first time.
- 1931 – The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
- 1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
- 1951 – Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records “Rocket 88“, often cited as “the first rock and roll record“, at Sam Phillips‘ recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
- 1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
- 2005 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
IN LGBT NEWS:
FREE THE WEED!!!
MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:
TEABAGGERY IN THE YEW ESS EH:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:
BULLY IS AS BULLY DOES:
GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:
SCOTUS WATCH:
TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:
ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:
NET NEUTRALITY:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
VIDEOS DU JOUR:
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