Hello, Headliners.Today’s birthday belongs to Bert Lahr, the cowardly lion. AUNTY EM!!! AUNTY EM!!! Other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1521 – After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
- 1624 – The French king Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Richelieu as prime minister
- 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
- 1831 – Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.
- 1898 – Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
- 1906 – The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged.
- 1913 – First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
- 1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
- 1918 – Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
- 1942 – Walt Disney’s fifth full-length animated film, Bambi, was released to theaters.
- 1961 – East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants’ attempts to escape to the West.
- 1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York, New York. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, California, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
- 1979 – The roof of the uncompleted Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois, collapses, killing five workers and injuring 16.
Now let’s look at today’s Headlines Du Jour:
INCOME INEQUALITY:
FREE THE WEED!!!
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
SHEP SMITH IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
To his credit:
LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
BULLY BOY BOLLING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
TUCKER FUCKER CARLSON IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
NEIL CAVUTO IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
LOU DOBBS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN OUTER SPACE:
ALMA confirms comets forge organic
molecules in their dusty atmospheres
These new observations provide important insights
into how and where comets forge new chemicals,
including intriguing organic compounds.
Black hole bends light, space, time — and NASA’s NuSTAR can see it all unfold
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