Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs Grandfather of Rhythm and Blues, Johnny Otis. Other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear include:
- 1065 – Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
- 1612 – Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
- 1795 – Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto).
- 1832 – John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
- 1835 – Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army.
- 1836 – Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico.
- 1846 – Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.
- 1867 – United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
- 1895 – Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
- 1912 – The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
- 1918 – Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.
- 1944 – Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score eight points in one game of NHL ice hockey.
- 1958 – “Greatest Game Ever Played”: Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York’s Yankee Stadium.
- 1973 – The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.
- 2000 – U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS:
NBC Reporter Threatened With
Arrest For Filming The Police Making
False Arrests at John Crawford Protest
Arrest For Filming The Police Making
False Arrests at John Crawford Protest
Indiana Supreme Court upholds law
prohibiting being ‘annoying’ while intoxicated
TODAY IN RELIGION:
MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:
ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:
FREE THE WEED!!!
HACK ATTACKS:
CLIMATE CHANGE:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
VIDEOS DU JOUR:
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