Hello again, Headliners. Today’s birthday is celebrated by comedian Robert Klein. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1250 – Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah.
• 1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
• 1865 – In the United States, Delaware voters reject the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and vote to continue the practice of slavery. (Delaware finally ratifies the amendment on February 12, 1901.)
• 1879 – Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
• 1910 – The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
• 1915 – D. W. Griffith‘s controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
• 1924 – Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
• 1946 – The first portion of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the first serious challenge to the popularity of the Authorized King James Version, is published.
• 1952 – Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom.
• 1960 – Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name “Mountbatten-Windsor“.
• 1960 – The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
• 1963 – Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
• 1974 – After 84 days in space, the crew of Skylab 4, the last crew to visit American space station Skylab, returns to Earth.
• 1996 – The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

ARE WE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY?

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:

GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

FREE THE WEED!!!

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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