Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Disco Diva Vickie Sue Robinson. Other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1578 – King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France.
- 1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
- 1790 – The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
- 1859 – The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
- 1879 – Gilmores Garden in New York, New York, is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
- 1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
- 1909 – The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, convenes for the first time.
- 1910 – The creation of the Union of South Africa.
- 1921 – Tulsa race riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.
- 1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
- 1929 – The first talking Mickey Mouse cartoon, “The Karnival Kid“, is released.
- 1961 – The Union of South Africa becomes the Republic of South Africa.
- 1962 – Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
- 1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed.
- 2005 – Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat.
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
THE 2016 ELECTION:
LGBT NEWS:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-BIGOTED SOCIETY:
TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:
GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:
ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:
FREE THE WEED!!!
ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
VIDEO DU JOUR:
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