Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to composer and guitarist Frank Zappa. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 69 – The Roman Senate declares Vespasian as Roman emperor, the last in the Year of the Four Emperors.
- 1620 – Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
- 1826 – American settlers in Nacogdoches, Mexican Texas, declare their independence, starting the Fredonian Rebellion.
- 1861 – Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.
- 1913 – Arthur Wynne‘s “word-cross”, the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
- 1919 – American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to Russia.
- 1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world’s first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
- 1951 – Libya became an independent country.
- 1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.
- 1969 – The United Nations adopts the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
- 1988 – A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.
- 1995 – The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
- 2012 – The world was predicted to end on December 21, 2012 according to some calendars.
- 2012 – The Walt Disney Company completed its acquisition of Lucasfilm and of the Star Wars franchise.
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
THE TORTURE REPORT:
TODAY’S PROTESTS:
IN LGBT NEWS:
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
TODAY IN RELIGION:
MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
FREE THE WEED!!!
ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:
CLIMATE CHANGE:
As The Planet Warms, A Remote Alaskan Town Shows Just How Unprepared We Are
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered more than
950 confirmed planets orbiting distant stars.
Planets with a known size and orbit are shown below,
including Kepler 186f, an Earth-size planet in the habitable zone.
950 confirmed planets orbiting distant stars.
Planets with a known size and orbit are shown below,
including Kepler 186f, an Earth-size planet in the habitable zone.
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