Hiya, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs Charlie Watts, beat-keeper for The Rolling Stones. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
- 1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.
- 1763 – Pontiac’s Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison’s attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
- 1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
- 1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention, the radio.
- 1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
- 1924 – The U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
- 1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
- 1966 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
- 1997 – In Denver, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. He was executed four years later.
- 2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
THE 2016 RACE TO THE WHITE HOUSE:
LGBT NEWS:
SCOTUS WATCH:
The Limits of Religious-Freedom Protections
The Supreme Court rules that a woman should not have been
denied a job over her head scarf, but a Muslim chaplain says
her hijab made her a target of discrimination on an airline flight.
The Supreme Court rules that a woman should not have been
denied a job over her head scarf, but a Muslim chaplain says
her hijab made her a target of discrimination on an airline flight.
TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:
FREE THE WEED!!!
ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:
Baby Boomers are still getting political news
from local TV, according to a new Pew survey
from local TV, according to a new Pew survey
OUR FUTURE ROBOT OVERLORDS:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
VIDEOS DU JOUR:
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