Hello there, Headliners! It’s the birthday of Herbert Khaury, better know as Tiny Tim. He was particularly fond of the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1204 – The Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade breach the walls of Constantinople and enter the city, which they completely occupy the following day.
• 1861 – American Civil War: The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.





• 1864 – American Civil War: The Fort Pillow massacre: Confederate forces kill most of the African American soldiers that surrendered at Fort Pillow, Tennessee.
• 1934 – The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
• 1945 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; vice-president Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.




• 1955 – The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.




• 1961 – The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
• 1980 – Terry Fox begins his “Marathon of Hope” at St. John’s, Newfoundland.




• 1981 – The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place – the STS-1 mission.
• 1999 – US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving “intentionally false statements” in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.

Let’s tiptoe through today’s Headlines Du Jour:

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

Darrell Issa Started His IRS
Investigation Because Karl Rove
Was Denied Tax Exempt Status

Not One Law Republicans Passed Has Helped America In Over Forty Years

VA GOP candidate: No incest
exception for abortion because
sometimes it’s ‘voluntary’

Papyrus Mentioning Jesus’s Wife Is Likely Ancient and Not Fake, Scientists Say

Vacationing Family Pulled Over, Handcuffed At Gunpoint By Air Force Base Security

Science is indisputable: Marijuana is medicine

The World’s Most Eco-Friendly Car: It’s Made Entirely From HEMP

Oldest Cave Paintings May
Be Creations of Neandertals,
Not Modern Humans

This Is the End of Facebook as We Know It

Twitter Just Bought a Startup
That Could Remake the Service

Jim DeMint’s History Lesson

Jim DeMint Wrestles With History And Fails

What Plantation Is Jim DeMint Living On?

Right-Wing History Redo: ‘It Was Faith, Not
the Federal Government that Ended Slavery’

Rush Limbaugh Blows a
Gasket and Claims Colbert
and CBS Have Declared
War on Conservatives

Will Colbert Use “The Late Show” To Save the World?

Bill O’Reilly: Stephen Colbert
Is Destroying America

Stephen Colbert Explains Bill O’Reilly’s “Unified Theory Of Why Everything Is Going To Hell”
Colbert: O’Reilly Takes On “The Far Left’s Obsession
With Equality” With “Grievance Industry” Attacks

That ‘War on Fox’ Guy Is
Not Actually Running for
Congress as a Democrat

Fox Host Declares Bush
The Best At Dodging Shoes

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