Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Jazz guitarist Joe Pass. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour from yesteryear:
- 1830 – The Great fire of New Orleans, Louisiana begins.
- 1833 – President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina‘s defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
- 1840 – The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
- 1869 – National convention of black leaders meets in Washington, D.C.
- 1893 – U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
- 1898 – Émile Zola‘s J’accuse exposes the Dreyfus affair.
- 1910 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the opera Cavalleria rusticana is sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, New York.
- 1942 – Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
- 1960 – The Gulag system of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union is officially abolished.
- 1966 – Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
- 1968 – Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison
- 1978 – U.S. Food & Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled “paid” or “volunteer” donors.
- 1990 – Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
- 1993 – Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
CHARLIE HEBDO ATTACKS:
IN LGBT NEWS:
TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:
TODAY IN RELIGION:
HACK ATTACKS:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
FOX NEWS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
FREE THE WEED!!!
Rising tensions between states over pot put pressure on Obama to act.
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IN OUTER SPACE:
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