Howdy Headliners!!! Today is the last full day of Summer and the birthday of Leonard Cohen, Canadian poet, novelist and singer. Born in 1934, he’s seen his number of Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1776 – Part of New York City is burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.
- 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Benedict Arnold gives the British the plans to West Point.
- 1792 – The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the monarchy.
- 1897 – The “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus” editorial is published in the New York Sun.
- 1937 – J. R. R. Tolkien‘s The Hobbit is published.
- 1938 – The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500-700 people.
- 1942 – On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaytsi (west Ukraine) to Belzec extermination camp.
- 1942 – In Poland, at the end of Yom Kippur, Germans order Jews to permanently evacuate Konstantynów and move to the Ghetto in Biała Podlaska, established to assemble Jews from seven nearby towns, including Janów Podlaski, Rossosz and Terespol.
- 1942 – In Dunaivtsi, Ukraine, Nazis murder 2,588 Jews.
- 1972 – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos signs Proclamation № 1081, placing the entire country under martial law and marking the beginning of his authoritarian rule.
- 1981 – Sandra Day O’Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
- 1993 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin suspends parliament and scraps the then-functioning constitution, thus triggering the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.
- 2001 – Deep Space 1 flies within 2,200 km of Comet Borrelly.
- 2001 – America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.
- 2003 – Galileo mission is terminated by sending the probe into Jupiter‘s atmosphere, where it is crushed by the pressure at the lower altitudes.
Now here is today”s Headlines Du Jour:
IT’S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL:
MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:
FREE THE WEED!!!
What should happen to weed users and dealers busted before the stuff was legal?
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
THE FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Fox’s Varney: Generous “Welfare
Web” Keeps People In A “Gilded Cage”
Web” Keeps People In A “Gilded Cage”
BULLY BOY BOLLING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
FOX & FRIENDS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
STEVE DOOCY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
ELISABETH HASSELBECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
NO LONGER PREGGY LEGGY MEGGY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
WRETCHED GRETCHED IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
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