Hiya, Headliners.Today’s birthday belongs to folksinger Donovan, who occasionally sang about the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacks the city’s Third Wall to the northwest.
- 1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
- 1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.
- 1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
- 1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.
- 1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 25 and injuring over 120.
- 1865 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
- 1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike.
- 1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.
- 1908 – Mother’s Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
- 1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.
- 1940 – World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain.
- 1946 – First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.
- 1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release “Rock Around the Clock“, the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.
- 1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
- 1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan.
- 1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president.
- 2013 – One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
BALTIMORE:
THE 2016 ELECTION:
LGBT NEWS:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:
MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:
FREE THE WEED!!!
ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
VIDEOS DU JOUR:
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