Howdy, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to Bob Weir, of The Grateful Dead, still making Headlines Du Jour. Here are some others from yesteryear:
- 1781 – George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
- 1793 – Marie Antoinette, widow of Louis XVI, is guillotined at the height of the French Revolution.
- 1814 – London Beer Flood occurs in London, killing eight.
- 1846 – William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome.
- 1859 – John Brown leads a raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
- 1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
- 1916 – In Brooklyn, New York, Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
- 1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
- 1940 – Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
- 1944 – Wally Walrus, Woody Woodpecker’s first steady foil, was debuted at the The Beach Nut, a Walter Lantz’s cartoon.
- 1946 – Nuremberg Trials: Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders of the Main Trial.
- 1970 – In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act.
- 1984 – Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1995 – The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
FREE THE WEED!!!
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
TODAY IN RELIGION:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Superintendent Aims To “To Set The Record Straight” About Fox’s Misinformation
LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Laura Ingraham: Frieden Is “A Combination Of Baghdad Bob And Kathleen Sebelius”
GRETA DISAGREES WITH THE FALAFEL KING:
FOX & FRIENDS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
ABLOW JOB IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Ablow: Americans Got Stockholm Syndrome And Elected Obama Because His Names Are “Very Similar To Two Of Our Archenemies”
NO LONGER PREGGY LEGGY MEGGY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
WRETCHED GRETCHED IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
PETER JOHNSON, JR IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
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