Howdy Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Kevin Ayers, an English singer-songwriter, who started in the free Jazz combo Soft Machine. Before he died last year, he lived through quite a few Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1812 – War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.
- 1841 – U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
- 1858 – U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal forces a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
- 1896 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
- 1927 – The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
- 1930 – The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
- 1930 – The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.
- 1954 – The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.
- 1974 – Punk Rock pioneers The Ramones play their first show in a local New York club named CBGB.
- 1989 – A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto’s stock market.
- 2008 – The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1,389 feet (423 m), at the time becoming the world’s highest residence above ground-level.
Let’s look at today’s Headlines Du Jour:
COPS GONE WILD:
Every
Mayberry has a SWAT team and
authorities are eager to unleash riot
police on the public. This wasn’t the
case 50 years ago, so how’d we get
here?
Mayberry has a SWAT team and
authorities are eager to unleash riot
police on the public. This wasn’t the
case 50 years ago, so how’d we get
here?
FREE THE WEED!!!
POLITICIANS GONE WILD:
TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:
POLLUTION WATCH:
TODAY IN CYBER-BULLYING:
YESTERDAY IN CYBER-BULLYING:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
THE TARANTULA IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
ABLOW JOB IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
VIDEO DU JOUR:
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