Hello again, Headliners! Today’s birthday is celebrated by Ben R. King, singer with The Drifters. He’s seen more than his share of Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1066 – William the Bastard invades England beginning the Norman conquest of England.
- 1779 – American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay.
- 1787 – The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.
- 1791 – France becomes the first country to emancipate its Jewish population.
- 1867 – Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.
- 1871 –
Brazilian Parliament passes the Law of the Free Womb, granting freedom
to all new children born to slaves, the first major step in the
eradication of slavery in Brazil. - 1912 – Corporal Frank S. Scott
of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an
airplane crash. He and pilot Lt. Lewis C. Rockwell are killed in the
crash of an Army Wright Model B at College Park, Maryland. - 1919 – Race riots begin in Omaha, Nebraska, US.
- 1928 – The U.K. Parliament passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
- 1928 – Sir Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.
- 1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.
- 1963 – Whaam!, now considered Roy Lichtenstein‘s most important work, debuted at an exhibition held at the Leo Castelli Gallery that lasted until at October 24.
- 1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
- 2008 – SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.
Today’s Headlines Du Jour is fortified with far more Fox “News” tomfoolery than usual because they were bigger idiots than usual:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:
FREE THE WEED!!!
TODAY IN RELIGION:
ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:
THE FAKE NEWS SHOWS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
THE FAKE FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
BULLY BOY BOLLING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
SEAN HANNITY AND DANA PERINO IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
THE FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
THE TARANTULA IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Andrea Tantaros: “He Was One Of The Most
Divisive, Polarizing, Controversial, Most
Dangerous Men In America … He Ran The
DOJ Much Like The Black Panthers Would”
Divisive, Polarizing, Controversial, Most
Dangerous Men In America … He Ran The
DOJ Much Like The Black Panthers Would”
WRETCHED GRETCHED IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
OUTNUMBERED IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
NEIL CAVUTO IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
New data suggest the poles could be reversing for the
first time in 780,000 years. Here’s how it affects you
first time in 780,000 years. Here’s how it affects you
IN OUTER SPACE:
A dramatic recent “discovery”
in physics is looking rather dodgy
in physics is looking rather dodgy
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