Good day, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to James Isaac Moore, better known as Slim Harpo, purveyor of the Blues. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1569 – First recorded lottery in England.




• 1759 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
• 1787 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.




• 1805 – The Michigan Territory is created.




• 1861 – Alabama secedes from the United States.
• 1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created.




• 1922 – First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
• 1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.




• 1935 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
• 1949 – The first “networked” television broadcasts take place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
• 1960 – Henry Lee Lucas, once listed as America’s most prolific serial killer, commits his first known murder.
• 1964 – Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.




• 1972 – East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.




• 1994 – The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.




• 1996 – Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
• 2003 – Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois‘ death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

CHARLIE HEBDO ATTACKS:

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

MORE OF THAT GOP OUTREACH:

IN LGBT NEWS:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF ZIMMERMAN GONE WILD:

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

 TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

HACK ATTACKS:

FOX NEWS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

FREE THE WEED!!!

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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