Hello, Headliners! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Robert Segarini, Canadian Rock and Roll star. Here’s the Headlines Du Jour of Yesteryear™:
- 1565 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.
- 1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.
- 1789 – William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
- 1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery through most the British Empire.
- 1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.
- 1879 – Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
- 1898 – Caleb Bradham invents the carbonated soft drink that will later be called “Pepsi-Cola“.
- 1917 – Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
- 1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
- 1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan‘s first television show, including its first TV advertisement.
- 1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.
- 1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
- 1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech
- 1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.
- 1968 – Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.
- 1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.
- 1991 – Collapse of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
- 1996 – Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales divorce.
Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:
IN LGBT NEWS:
MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
FREE THE WEED!!!
RUPERT MURDOCH IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Former CEO says the Australian newspaper
business is ‘vaingloriously ignoring the facts’
and is shackled by outdated management systems
business is ‘vaingloriously ignoring the facts’
and is shackled by outdated management systems
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
LOOFAH LAD AND NO LONGER PREGGY LEGGY MEGGY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
THE FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Bill O’Reilly Uses His ‘Asian Privilege’
Argument As An Excuse To Attack
African American Leadership
Argument As An Excuse To Attack
African American Leadership
GREG GUTFELD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
A groundbreaking survey of the site has turned up
tantalizing new clues to what really went on there
tantalizing new clues to what really went on there
IN OUTER SPACE:
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