Hello Headliners! It’s the King of Jazz’s birthday. Paul Whiteman is the orchestra leader who commissioned George Gershwin to write Rhapsody in Blue and hired Bing Crosby as his boy singer back in 1926. George, along with his brother Ira, loved the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
• 1776 – Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
• 1802 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
• 1854 – Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
• 1871 – The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
• 1930 – Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
• 1969 – The McGill français movement protest occurs, the second largest protest in Montreal’s history with 10,000 trade unionists, leftist activists, college students, and some McGill students at McGill’s Roddick Gates. The majority of the protesters are arrested.
• 1979 – A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island‘s Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial melt down.
• 1990 – President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.

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

Mozillagate grows

LGBT RIP

A Decision In Favor Of Hobby Lobby Will
Equal a License For Religious Tyranny

Medical Marijuana User Relieved
He Can Still Grow At Home

These States Are Ready To Break The Marijuana Taboo In The Conservative South

Industrial hemp research
bill passes in Nebraska

Legalize Canada: New Activist
Group Targets Key Ridings To
Elect Pro-Marijuana Candidates

The Sheldon Primary:
No Welcome Mat for the Tea Party

India officially declared polio-free

Weathermen Blown Away (Literally) By Massive Blizzard

Former CEO: There Is
No One Representing
Low-Wage Workers

$1 trillion student loan
debt widens US wealth gap

‘Nuns on the Bus’ Leader
on Income Inequality

Fixing one driver of inequality may hit
close to home for some progressives

2016 report: Sarah Palin’s possible
presidential run gaining traction

No Suprise: Detroit Listed as
Most Segregated City in America

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Top 10 Most Segregated Cities in the U.S.

Congresswoman Barbara Lee Responds To O’Reilly’s “Divisive” “Race Hustler” Attack

Chris Hayes: ‘Bill O’Reilly
Is a Pretty Accomplished
Race-Baiter Himself’

O’Reilly Blames Ignorant
Americans For Obama’s
Positive Poll Result

In a first, scientists create
artificial chromosome
Scientists have built from scratch the
world’s first synthetic chromosome
of a eukaryote, incorporating it
into brewer’s yeast.

Mars-Bound Comet Sprouts Twin
Jets in Hubble Telescope Photos

Scientists solve riddle
of celestial archaeology

Capturing Halley’s Comet:
An Astronomy Tale

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