Hello there, Headliners!!! Let’s spark one up for birthday boy Tommy Chong, who turns 76 today. Among other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear include:
- 1607 – 100 English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first English colony in America.
- 1626 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
- 1830 – Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.
- 1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message “What hath God wrought” (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
- 1856 – John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
- 1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
- 1921 – The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
- 1935 – The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 at Crosley Field.
- 1940 – Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico.
- 1943 – The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- 1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for “disturbing the peace” after disembarking from their bus.
- 1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
- 1988 – Section 28 of the United Kingdom’s Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
- 1994 – Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
Without any further delay, let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:
GOP STANDS FOR “GOT OUR PRIORITIES”
THE GOP BOLDFACED LIE DU JOUR:
IN LGBT NEWS:
IN INCOME INEQUALITY:
FREE THE WEED!!!
TODAY IN RELIGION:
ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT,
‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:
BULLY BOY BOLLING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
KKKARL ROVE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
DISGUSTING ALLEN WEST IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN OUTER SPACE:
VIDEO DU JOUR:
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