Welcome home, Headliners!!! Today’s birthday boy is guitarist extraordinaire Robert Fripp. Here are some of the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1532 – Sir Thomas More resigns as Lord Chancellor of England.
- 1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, flees to England.
- 1770 – A 14-year old Marie Antoinette marries 15-year-old Louis-Auguste who later becomes king of France.
- 1843 – The first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri.
- 1866 – The U.S. Congress eliminates the half dime coin and replaces it with the five cent piece, or nickel.
- 1868 – United States President Andrew Johnson is acquitted in his impeachment trial by one vote in the United States Senate.
- 1888 – Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
- 1918 – The Sedition Act of 1918
is passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government
during wartime an imprisonable offense. It will be repealed less than
two years later. - 1920 – In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
- 1929 – In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards are awarded.
- 1943 – The Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends.
- 1960 – Theodore Maiman operates the first optical laser (a ruby laser), at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California.
- 1988 – A report by United States’ Surgeon General C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
- 1991 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:
GOP STANDS FOR “GET OUR POLITICIANS”
TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?
TODAY IN RELIGION:
IN LGBT NEWS:
FREE THE WEED!!!
ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:
ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORK:
CNN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
KKKARL ROVE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
THE TARANTULA IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
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