Hello, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to Etta James, who died just 2 years ago. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1533 – Henry VIII of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
• 1791 – The British Parliament passes the Constitutional Act of 1791 and splits the old Province of Quebec into Upper and Lower Canada.
• 1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.




• 1915 – Alexander Graham Bell inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
• 1924 – The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, inaugurating the Winter Olympic Games.
• 1937 – The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until Sept. 18, 2009.




• 1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
• 1947 – Thomas Goldsmith Jr. files a patent for a “Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device”, the first ever electronic game.




• 1949 – At the Hollywood Athletic Club the first Emmy Awards are presented.





• 1960 – The National Association of Broadcasters reacts to the “payola” scandal by threatening fines for any disc jockeys who accept money for playing particular records.




• 1961 – In Washington, D.C. John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
• 1971 – Charles Manson and three female “Family” members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
• 1981 – Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, is sentenced to death.
• 1994 – The Clementine space probe launches.




• 1995 – The Norwegian rocket incident: Russia almost launches a nuclear attack after it mistakes Black Brant XII, a Norwegian research rocket, for a US Trident missile.




• 1996 – Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the USA.
• 2004 – Opportunity rover (MER-B) lands on surface of Mars.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

MORE OF THAT GOP OUTREACH:

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

BULLY IS AS BULLY DOES:

SCOTUS WATCH:

GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

FREE THE WEED!!!

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

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