Hello, Headliners!!! Today’s birthday girl is Teresa Brewer, one of the best selling singers of the ’50s and ’60s. Here are some of the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 351 – The Jewish revolt against Gallus breaks out. After his arrival at Antioch, the Jews begin a rebellion in Palestine.
- 1429 – Joan of Arc ends the Siege of Orléans, pulling an arrow from her own shoulder and returning, wounded, to lead the final charge. The victory marks a turning point in the Hundred Years’ War.
- 1718 – The city of New Orleans is founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
- 1763 – Pontiac’s War begins with Pontiac’s attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British.
- 1846 – The Cambridge Chronicle, America’s oldest surviving weekly newspaper, is published for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts
- 1915 – World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania,
killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the
sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the
German Empire - 1920 – The Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, opens the first exhibition by the Group of Seven.
- 1946 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees.
- 1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer.
- 1960 – Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
- 1992 – The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission, STS-49.
- 1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
- 2000 – Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
- 2004 – American businessman Nick Berg is beheaded by Islamic militants. The act is recorded on videotape and released on the Internet.
- 2007 – Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.
Let’s get to today’s Headlines Du Jour:
GOP STANDS FOR “GOT OUR PRIORITIES”
IN LGBT NEWS:
TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:
FREE THE WEED!!!
BULLY CORNER:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
GRENDL IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
JON SCOTT IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Fox’s Jon Scott On Proposed Women’s
History Museum: “Any Talk Of
Getting Us A Men’s History Museum?”
History Museum: “Any Talk Of
Getting Us A Men’s History Museum?”
LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
VIDEO DU JOUR:
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