Welcome back, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Dean Martin. Among the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1099 – First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
- 1494 – Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
- 1776 – Richard Henry Lee presents the “Lee Resolution” to the Continental Congress. The motion was seconded by John Adams and led to the United States Declaration of Independence.
- 1862 – The United States and the United Kingdom agree to suppress the slave trade.
- 1892 – Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
- 1892 – Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the “whites-only” car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
- 1899 – American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
- 1909 – Mary Pickford makes her screen debut at the age of 16.
- 1965 – The Supreme Court of the United States hands down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
- 1967 – Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.
- 1971 – The United States Supreme Court overturned the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- 1982 – Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier was kept off-limits.
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE:
ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:
FREE THE WEED!!!
ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:
HACK ATTACKS:
A massive data breach affects more than 1
percent of the American population—and
it’s precisely those whose information a
foreign government would most want to have.
percent of the American population—and
it’s precisely those whose information a
foreign government would most want to have.
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
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