Hello Headliners! Today’s birthday boy is singer and fiddler Charlie Daniels. Other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear include:
- 1492 – Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba on his first voyage to the New World. [1]
- 1538 – The first university in the New World (in present-day Dominican Republic), the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
- 1636 – A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.
- 1886 – In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
- 1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson‘s veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
- 1929 – Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
- 1942 – The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
- 1948 – Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
- 1962 – End of Cuban missile crisis: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
- 1965 – Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed.
- 2005 – Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney‘s chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
LIFE IS LIKE EBOLA CHERRIES:
TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?
Extremist Republicans turned their government into a lab
experiment of tax cuts and privatization. And now they may
be losing control of one of the reddest states in the nation
experiment of tax cuts and privatization. And now they may
be losing control of one of the reddest states in the nation
ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:
MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:
TODAY IN RELIGION ~or~ JOHN LENNON WAS RIGHT:
America is becoming less Christian because young people
are less religious. That’s not blessed news for conservatives
are less religious. That’s not blessed news for conservatives
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
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| On this day in 1886, in New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty. |
FREE THE WEED!!!
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:
Frank Serpico: “I should know.”
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