After a hiatus of a few weeks, Headlines Du Jour is back, babies!!! Today’s birthday belongs to Alexis de Tocqueville, who coined the phrase ‘Merkin ‘Ceptionalism and it wasn’t meant to be a compliment. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1565 – The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland.
- 1793 – John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.
- 1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France.
- 1899 – The First Hague Convention is signed.
- 1907 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9, 1907, and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.
- 1921 – Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
- 1945 – The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.
- 1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.
- 1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
- 1959 – First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
- 1976 – In New York City, David Berkowitz (aka the “Son of Sam”) kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.
- 1981 – A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul’s Cathedral in London.
- 1987 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).
- 1993 – The Supreme Court of Israel acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.
- 2005 – Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.
Now here are today’s Headlines Du Jour:
IN LGBT NEWS:
Why is it that some react to the LGBT community
with the same emotions we use for rotting food?
Scientists are starting to figure it out.
with the same emotions we use for rotting food?
Scientists are starting to figure it out.
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
FREE THE WEED!!!
SCIENCE MARCHES ON:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
COLONEL KURTZ IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
SARAH PALIN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
MSNBC IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
