Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Lamont Dozier, who wrote many hit songs for Motown before going off on a solo career. Here are some Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1745 – British troops take Cape Breton Island, which is now part of Nova Scotia, Canada.
- 1755 – French and Indian War: the French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians.
- 1816 – Lord Byron reads Fantasmagoriana to his four house guests at the Villa Diodati, Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspires his challenge that each guest write a ghost story, which culminated in Mary Shelley writing the novel Frankenstein, John Polidori writing the short story The Vampyre, and Byron writing the poem Darkness.
- 1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois.
- 1884 – The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson’s “Switchback Railway“, opens in New York’s Coney Island amusement park.
- 1897 – A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
- 1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
- 1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called “Bloomsday“.
- 1911 – IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
- 1944 – At age 14, George Junius Stinney, Jr. becomes the youngest person executed in the United States in the 20th century.
- 1961 – Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
- 1967 – The Monterey Pop Festival begins
- 1981 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada’s former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979-81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor.
- 2010 – Bhutan becomes the first country to institute a total ban on tobacco.
- 2012 – The United States Air Force‘s robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission.
Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
TODAY IN RELIGION:
FREE THE WEED!!!
CNN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
WALL STREET JOURNAL IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
GLENN BECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
TUCKER FUCKER CARLSON IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
VIDEO DU JOUR:
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