Hiya, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1502 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.
- 1554 – A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.
- 1733 – Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).
- 1825 – The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.
- 1855 – Michigan State University is established.
- 1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
- 1914 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
- 1924 – George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue received its premiere in a concert titled “An Experiment in Modern Music,” in Aeolian Hall, New York, by Paul Whiteman and his band, with Gershwin playing the piano.
- 1946 – African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles‘ film Touch of Evil.
- 1963 – Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis.
- 1999 – United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
- 2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the “saddle” region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
- 2004 – The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Let’s take a look at today’s Headlines Du Jour:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
Hashtag #MuslimLivesMatter trends as man,
46, charged with murder after killing at housing
complex near University of North Carolina campus
46, charged with murder after killing at housing
complex near University of North Carolina campus
The most recent data on lynching, compiled by the
Equal Justice Initiative, shows premeditated murders
carried out by at least three people from 1877 to 1950.
The killers claimed to be enforcing some form of
social justice. The alleged offenses that prompted the
lynchings included political activism and testifying in court.
Equal Justice Initiative, shows premeditated murders
carried out by at least three people from 1877 to 1950.
The killers claimed to be enforcing some form of
social justice. The alleged offenses that prompted the
lynchings included political activism and testifying in court.
WAR IS HELL:
Instead of confronting the truth, we scrubbed the record
clean—and we’re still paying for it in Afghanistan and Iraq today.
clean—and we’re still paying for it in Afghanistan and Iraq today.
From the vast Not Now Silly Archives:
IN LGBT NEWS:
MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:
IN INCOME INEQUALITY:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF CORPORATIONS GONE WILD:
GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:
The lynching and torture of blacks in the Jim Crow South
weren’t just acts of racism. They were religious rituals.
weren’t just acts of racism. They were religious rituals.
HACK ATTACKS:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
FREE THE WEED!!!
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
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