Hello again, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to Otis Ray Redding, Jr, whose biggest hit, “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay,” was recorded 3 days before he died in a plane crash in 1967, making it a Headline Du Jour of yesteryear. Also on this date:
- 1739 – Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain’s mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.
- 1776 – The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.
- 1791 – Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.
- 1839 – John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
- 1850 – California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.
- 1926 – In the United States the National Broadcasting Company is formed.
- 1940 – George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
- 1942 – World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.
- 1947 – First case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
- 1956 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
- 1969 – In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.
- 1971 – The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.
- 1993 – The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.
Here’s today’s Headlines Du Jour:
MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) told the Daily News he was outraged at
Republicans’ bugging of Assemblyman Edward Hennessey’s car, while others demanded an
apology. State GOP Chairman Ed Cox shot back on Monday that the tracking was perfectly legal.
Republicans’ bugging of Assemblyman Edward Hennessey’s car, while others demanded an
apology. State GOP Chairman Ed Cox shot back on Monday that the tracking was perfectly legal.
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| Fun fact: September 8th is the birthday of Ruby Bridges, center |
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
TODAY IN RELIGION:
ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:
FREE THE WEED!!!
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
IN LGBT NEWS:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
FOX & FRIENDS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
THE FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
TUCKER FUCKER CARLSON IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
OUTNUMBERED IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
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