Hello, Headliners!!! It’s the b-b-birthday of P-P-Pete Townshend. Other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear include:
- 1535 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona‘s two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage).
- 1536 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
- 1568 – Queen Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.
- 1743 – Jean-Pierre Christin developed the centigrade temperature scale.
- 1749 – King George II of Great Britain grants the Ohio Company a charter of land around the forks of the Ohio River.
- 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte founds the Legion of Honour.
- 1848 – Mexican–American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million.
- 1897 – Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.
- 1911 – Parks Canada, the world’s first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
- 1950 – A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.
- 1950 – Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to Israeli ships and commerce.
- 1962 – A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe‘s rendition of “Happy Birthday“.
- 1963 – The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, drafted shortly after his arrest on April 12th during the Birmingham campaign advocating for civil rights and an end to segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. The letter was in response to “A Call for Unity“:
a statement made by eight white Alabama clergymen against King and his
methods, following his arrest, and became one of the most-anthologized
statements of the African-American Civil Rights Movement.
Without any further delay, let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:
‘MERKA, ‘MERKA, GOD SHED HIS GRACE ON THEE:
The U.S. is being overrun by a wave of
anti-science, anti-intellectual thinking. Has
the most powerful nation on Earth lost its mind?
anti-science, anti-intellectual thinking. Has
the most powerful nation on Earth lost its mind?
TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:
GOP STANDS FOR “GOT OUR PREJUDICES:
TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?
FREE THE WEED!!!
ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:
A mother’s rights were not violated by a
judge’s decision that barred her from ranting
about her children and ex on Facebook.
judge’s decision that barred her from ranting
about her children and ex on Facebook.
ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Fox News’ divisive race strategy: How O’Reilly,
Hannity and Coulter intentionally tore
America apart
Hannity and Coulter intentionally tore
America apart
LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
ANNA KOOIMAN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
FUCKER TUCKER CARLSON IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
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