It’s the last day of June, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Canadian troubadour Murry McLaughlin. Here are some of the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
- 1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
- 1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for “public use, resort and recreation”.
- 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.
- 1886 – The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
- 1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity.
- 1908 – The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.
- 1922 – In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes-Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.
- 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler‘s violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
- 1937 – The world’s first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London
- 1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
- 1966 – The National Organization for Women, the United States’ largest feminist organization, is founded.
- 1971 – Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, reducing the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.
- 1986 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.
- 1987 – The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
INCOME INEQUALITY IN ‘MERKA:
TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:
THE “G” IN GOP STANDS FOR GOOFBALL:
TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?
TODAY IN RELIGION:
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORK:
FREE THE WEED!!!
‘This really is a time when there should be
laboratories of democracy,’ former president says
laboratories of democracy,’ former president says
KKKARL ROVE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
BILL KRISTOL IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
LARRY GATLIN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
BONUS VIDEO DU JOUR:
VIDEO DU JOUR:
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