Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday boy is journalist Bill Moyers, who has covered more than one Headline Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 70 – Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
- 1837 – Houston is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
- 1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe‘s anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
- 1915 – Denmark amends its constitution to allow women’s suffrage.
- 1916 – Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
- 1933 – The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States’ use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
- 1947 – Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, the United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
- 1956 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, “Hound Dog“, on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
- 1963 – The British Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns in a sex scandal known as the Profumo affair.
- 1967 – The Six-Day War begins: Israel launches surprise strikes against Egyptian air-fields in response to the mobilisation of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border.
- 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day.
- 1975 – The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
- 1981 – The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
- 1989 – The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
GOP STANDS FOR “GOT OUR PREJUDICES”
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
BOOK EXCERPT ABOUT DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:
At the height of his power, Henry Ford created a secret
army of criminals to rule over his burgeoning empire
army of criminals to rule over his burgeoning empire
ON THE INFORMATION HIGHWAY:
FREE THE WEED!!!
How a 20-year campaign to
distinguish industrial hemp from
marijuana scored an epic victory
distinguish industrial hemp from
marijuana scored an epic victory
FREE THE WEED TOURIST!!!
MAUREEN DOWD IN THE NEWS ARCHIVES AGAIN:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
BRAIN BRIAN KILMEADE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
NO LONGER PREGGY LEGGY MEGGY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
ABLOW JOB IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN OUTER SPACE:
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