Howdy, Headliners. Cinco de Mayo is also the birthday of Monty Python’s Michael Palin. Here are some of the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear.
- 1260 – Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
- 1494 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.
- 1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman awarded a U.S. patent, for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.
- 1809 – The Swiss canton of Aargau denies citizenship to Jews.
- 1821 – Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.
- 1862 – Cinco de Mayo: troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
- 1877 – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
- 1904 – Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
- 1920 – Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.
- 1925 – Scopes Trial: serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.
- 1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots’ Victory Day.
- 1961 – The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
- 1981 – Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.
- 1987 – Iran-Contra affair: start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
Without any further delay, let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:
GOP STANDS FOR “GOT OUR PRIORITIES!”
TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?
is working to stifle Tea Party challenges in states
like North Carolina, Mississippi, and Kentucky
IN LGBT NEWS:
TODAY IN RELIGION:
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
FREE THE WEED!!!
ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:
CRACK MAYOR CORNER:
FOX “NEWS”” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
JESSE WATTERS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
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