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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, March 12, 2015

March 12, 2015420, Climate Change, Cops Gone Wild, Dubya, Free the Weed, George Jackson, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Outer Space, POTUS, Religion, Republicans, SelmaHeadly Westerfield

Hello there, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to singer/songwriter George Jackson. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1894 – Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph Biedenharn.

1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.

1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.

1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt

1933 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his “fireside chats“.

1947 – The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.

1968 – Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.

1992 – Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.

1993 – North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.

1993 – Janet Reno is sworn in as the United States‘ first female attorney general.

1994 – The Church of England ordains its first female priests.

1999 – Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.

2009 – Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.

2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan’s earthquake.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, March 5, 2015

March 5, 2015420, Eddy Grant, Free the Weed, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Outer Space, Racism, Republicans, TortureHeadly Westerfield

Hey there, Headliners! Celebrating a birthday today is singer Eddy Grant, also creator of the musical genre Ringbang. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus‘s book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the Catholic Church

1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.

1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later.

1836 – Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.

1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.

1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a “bank holiday“, closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.

1933 – Adolf Hitler‘s Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.

1940 – Six high-ranking members of Soviet politburo, including General Secretary Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.

1946 – Winston Churchill coins the phrase “Iron Curtain” in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.

1960 – Cuban photographer Alberto Korda takes his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara.

1970 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.

1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.

1979 – America’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

Ben Carson says being gay is a
choice, citing prison example

Ben Carson apologizes for
comments on gay people

Ben Carson Blames Media: I’m Just
Not Going to Talk Gay Rights Anymore

Calif. attorney files for ballot initiative seeking to have all gays executed

Book of the Year: Biography Documenting
Worst Mass Killing of Gays in U.S. History

FREE THE WEED!!!

Jesse Teplicki, South Florida Man Charged With Growing Marijuana, Found Not Guilty

Jury acquits grower who cited
medical need for marijuana

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

7 clear ways Ferguson police violated
the Constitution, according to DOJ

WAR IS HELL:

Bush White House’s Repeated Torture Denials
Led CIA Torturers to Seek Repeated Reassurances

“New Torture Files”: Declassified Memos Detail Roles of Bush
White House and DOJ Officials Who Conspired to Approve Torture

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

Welfare Dynasty: Duck Dynasty Cast Receives $70,000 from Louisiana Taxpayers PER EPISODE

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:

Texas 4-year-old fatally shoots
self — just 2 days and a few miles
from 3-year-old who did the same

In alarming ruling, Missouri’s gun-friendly
Constitution now allows felons to possess weapons

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

Google Finally Overcomes Quantum Computing’s Biggest Paradox, Error Solving

IN INNER SPACE:

Patients with gout less likely
to develop Alzheimers disease

2nd superbug infection identified at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Oldest Human Fossil Found, Redrawing Family Tree
Discovery pushes back the origin of our genus, Homo, by half a million years.

Genghis Khan’s Lost Fortress Uncovered In Western Mongolia

Homer Simpson found the Higgs boson first, a science writer claims