Hello Headliners. It’s the birthday of Butch Cassidy, born on this day in 1866. He knew a thing or two about the Headlines of Du Jour of yesteryear.
- 1613 – Samuel Argall captures Native American princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father. She is brought to Henricus as hostage.
- 1796 – The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.
- 1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
- 1873 – The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 African Americans are murdered, takes place.
- 1919 – Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.
- 1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson‘s birth.
- 1953 – CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA.
- 1960 – The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world’s first satellite navigation system.
- 1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.
- 1970 – An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.
- 1974 – Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States’ first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
- 1997 – Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:
THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBSTRUCTIONISTS:
TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?
THE GEORGE W. BUSH LEGACY:
Senate committee found CIA interrogations and detentions to be ‘brutal’ and urges administration to release report as quickly as possible.
TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:
TODAY IN RELIGION:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPSIODE OF COPS GONE WILD:
ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:
FREE THE WEED!!!
BONUS VIDEO DU JOUR:
FROM THE HATERS:
ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:
CAN YOU DIG IT:
RUPERT MURDOCH IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Murdoch: Fox “Absolutely Saved” The GOP
LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
HUCKLEBERRY HOUND IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
THE FIVE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Fox Hosts Ask “Who Cares” About Racism, Claim
Obama Administration Set Back National Racial Relations
Obama Administration Set Back National Racial Relations
NBC IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
JERRY LEWIS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
VIDEO DU JOUR:
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