Hey there, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Johnny “Guitar” Watson. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1637 – Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.
- 1690 – The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.
- 1783 – American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
- 1809 – The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress.
- 1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
- 1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.
- 1916 – Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
- 1947 – The lowest temperature in North America, −63.9 °C (−83.0 °F), is recorded in Snag, Yukon.
- 1959 – Deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
- 1966 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
- 1971 – New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him.
- 1984 – John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history’s first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.
- 1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
- 1995 – Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:
IN INCOME INEQUALITY:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
MORE OF THAT GOP OUTREACH:
IN LGBT NEWS:
GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Lindsay Lohan and mother Dina sue Fox News for
‘malicious’ claim that the pair snorted coke together
‘malicious’ claim that the pair snorted coke together
FREE THE WEED!!!
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IN OUTER SPACE:
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