Welcome back, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to one of my favourite artists, Henry Saint Clair Fredericks, better known to his fans as Taj Mahal. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1536 – The annulment of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn’s marriage.
- 1792 – The New York Stock Exchange is formed under the Buttonwood Agreement.
- 1875 – Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby.
- 1902 – Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
- 1954 – The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
- 1969 – Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
- 1970 – Thor Heyerdahl sets sail from Morocco on the papyrus boat Ra II to sail the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1973 – Watergate scandal: Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
- 1983 – The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world’s largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2 million pounds), in response to the Appalachian Observer’s Freedom of Information Act request.
- 1990 – The General Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) eliminates homosexuality from the list of psychiatric diseases.
- 2004 – The first legal same-sex marriages in the U.S. are performed in the state of Massachusetts.
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
THE 2016 ELECTION:
SCOTUS WATCH:
LGBT NEWS:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:
MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:
FREE THE WEED!!!
ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:
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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