Hey there, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to composer Lalo Schifrin, who wrote a number of movie and tee vee theme songs. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1734 – In Montreal in New France, a slave known by the French name of Marie-Joseph Angélique is put to death, having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of the city.
- 1749 – Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded.
- 1788 – New Hampshire ratifies the Constitution of the United States and is admitted as the 9th state in the United States.
- 1877 – The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants convicted of murder, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons.
- 1898 – The United States captures Guam from Spain.
- 1915 – The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens.
- 1919 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.
- 1940 – The first successful west-to-east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
- 1942 – World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
- 1957 – Ellen Fairclough is sworn in as Canada’s first female Cabinet Minister.
- 1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
- 1973 – In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller test for obscenity in U.S. law.
- 1982 – John Hinckley is found not guilty by reason of insanity for the attempted assassination of U.S. President Ronald Reagan.
- 2000 – Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the ‘promotion’ of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
- 2004 – SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
- 2005 – Edgar Ray Killen,
who had previously been acquitted for the murders of James Chaney,
Andrew Goodman, and Mickey Schwerner, is convicted of manslaughter 41
years afterwards (the case had been reopened in 2004).
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
MOTHER EMANUEL CHURCH:
RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE:
LGBT NEWS:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:
ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:
FREE THE WEED!!!
ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:
HACK ATTACKS:
OUR FUTURE ROBOT OVERLORDS:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Fox Throws Stones At Brian Williams From Their Glass House Of Bill O’Reilly Lies
Maher Says What We All Know;
Right Wing Pricks Like Fox
News Breed Racial Violence
Fox Regular Kevin Jackson Blames Black Liberals For Charlotte Shooting
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