Howdy, Headliners! Today’s birthday boy is Basil Rathbone, who played both heroes and villains in his long career. Here are some of the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1740 – Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.




• 1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain’s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.





• 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
• 1893 – Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery
  to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed
  to US public until 1917, nine years after the president’s death.




• 1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.




• 1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.




• 1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
• 1970 – “The Long and Winding Road” becomes the Beatles‘ last US Number 1 song.
• 1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
• 1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the furthest planet from the Sun at the time).




• 1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
• 1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
• 2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
• 2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.

Let’s get to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

TODAY IN RELIGION:

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

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

FREE THE WEED!!!

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

CBS NEWS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

CNN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

JESSE WATTERS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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