Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Isaac Donald “Don” Everly, one half of the Everly Brothers. Here are some Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1796 – The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
- 1835 – Slavery is abolished in Mauritius.
- 1865 – President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
- 1884 – The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
- 1893 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
- 1920 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begins operations.
- 1942 – Voice of America, the official external radio and television service of the United States government, begins broadcasting with programs aimed at areas controlled by the Axis powers.
- 1960 – Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
- 1964 – The Beatles have their first number one hit in the United States with “I Want to Hold Your Hand.”
- 1978 – Director Roman Polanski skips bail and flees the United States to France after pleading guilty to charges of having sex with a 13-year-old girl.
- 1979 – The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran after nearly 15 years of exile.
- 1996 – The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
- 2002 – Daniel Pearl, American journalist and South Asia Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal, kidnapped January 23, 2002, is beheaded and mutilated by his captors.
- 2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS-107 disintegrates during reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.
- 2004 – Janet Jackson‘s breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl XXXVIII, resulting in US broadcasters adopting a stronger adherence to Federal Communications Commission censorship guidelines.
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF CORPORATIONS GONE WILD:
IN INCOME INEQUALITY:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
MORE OF THAT GOP OUTREACH:
IN LGBT NEWS:
The American Family Association, a certified
anti-gay hate group, has fired its spokesperson,
Bryan Fischer, but his replacement is even worse.
anti-gay hate group, has fired its spokesperson,
Bryan Fischer, but his replacement is even worse.
BULLY IS AS BULLY DOES:
Walking sack of crap ordered to destroy all pics, too.
SCOTUS WATCH:
Two Supreme Court experts explain why they don’t buy the justices’ arguments that they shouldn’t be filmed in action.
GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Bill O’Reilly: Romney Failed To “Confront The President With The Benghazi Debacle”
Stacey Dash: “It’s The Same Thing With Guns. Guns Don’t Kill People,
People Kill People. Alcohol Doesn’t Get You Drunk, You Get Yourself Drunk”
People Kill People. Alcohol Doesn’t Get You Drunk, You Get Yourself Drunk”
FREE THE WEED!!!
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
Probes approach a pair of former planets
and five truly ancient worlds turn up
and five truly ancient worlds turn up
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