Heya, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Jazz artist Miles Davis. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1538 – Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.
- 1647 – Alse Young, hanged in Hartford, Connecticut, becomes the first person executed as a witch in the British American colonies.
- 1783 – A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford, Connecticut, celebrated end of fighting in American Revolution.
- 1828 – Feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.
- 1830 – The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later.
- 1857 – Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners.
- 1897 – Dracula, a novel by the Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
- 1938 – In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
- 1966 – British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
- 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
- 1972 – The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
- 1998 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
- 2004 – United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
LGBT NEWS:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
Dante and David apply for the
same job but only one gets an
interview. Here’s the rest of their day.
same job but only one gets an
interview. Here’s the rest of their day.
TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:
GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:
FREE THE WEED!!!
Woman fights medical marijuana firing
Case exposes paucity of guidelines for workers and bosses, lawyers say
Case exposes paucity of guidelines for workers and bosses, lawyers say
OUR ROBOT OVERLORDS:
HACK ATTACKS:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
VIDEOS DU JOUR:
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