Howdy, Headliners! Celebrating his 72nd birthday today is Isaac Hayes, or he would be had he not died in 2008. Here are some of the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1308 – Pope Clement V pardons Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, absolving him of charges of heresy.
- 1775 – The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
- 1858 – Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace‘s same theory.
- 1866 – President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
- 1882 – Tchaikovsky‘s 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia.
- 1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1940 – In Mexico City, Mexico exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day.
- 1940 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line “Never was so much owed by so many to so few“.
- 1968 – Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring.
- 1977 – Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
- 1986 – In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
- 1988 – Iran–Iraq War: a ceasefire is agreed after almost eight years of war.
- 1993 – After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.
- 1998 – The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government’s approval.
Let’s get to today’s Headlines Du Jour:
IN LGBT NEWS:
In a world of increasingly sophisticated
facial-recognition technology, a drastic
technique can throw the machines off your trail.
facial-recognition technology, a drastic
technique can throw the machines off your trail.
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