Howdy, Headliners. Cinco de Mayo is also the birthday of Monty Python’s Michael Palin. Here are some of the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear.
- 1260 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
- 1494 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.
- 1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
- 1809 – The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.
- 1821 – Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
- 1862 – Cinco de Mayo: troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
- 1877 – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
- 1904 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
- 1920 – Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
- 1925 – Scopes Trial: serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
- 1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots’ Victory Day.
- 1961 – The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
- 1981 – Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
- 1987 – Iran-Contra affair: start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
Without any further delay, let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:
GOP STANDS FOR “GOT OUR PRIORITIES!”
TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?
How the GOP’s old guard, led by Mitch McConnell,
is working to stifle Tea Party challenges in states
like North Carolina, Mississippi, and Kentucky
is working to stifle Tea Party challenges in states
like North Carolina, Mississippi, and Kentucky
IN LGBT NEWS:
TODAY IN RELIGION:
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
FREE THE WEED!!!
ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:
CRACK MAYOR CORNER:
FOX “NEWS”” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
JESSE WATTERS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
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