Happy Thanksgiving, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to Jimi Hendrix, who’s been dead longer than he was alive. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1095 – Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
- 1810 – The Berners Street hoax was perpetrated by Theodore Hook in the City of Westminster, London.
- 1835 – James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England.
- 1868 – American Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River: United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
- 1895 – At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
- 1924 – In New York City, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
- 1954 – Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury.
- 1965 – Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
- 1971 – The Soviet space program‘s Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
- 1973 – Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States Senate votes 92 to 3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On December 6, the House will confirm him 387 to 35).
- 1978 – In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.
- 2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
- 2005 – The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
- 2006 – The Canadian House of Commons approves a motion tabled by Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizing the Québécois as a nation within Canada.
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
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| Ferguson, Missouri, 2014 |
FERGUSON FOLLOW-UP:
Here are documents and evidence presented to the grand jury in
Clayton, Mo., that was deciding whether to indict Officer Darren
Wilson in the August shooting of Michael Brown. The documents
were released by the St. Louis County prosecutor, Robert P. McCulloch.
Clayton, Mo., that was deciding whether to indict Officer Darren
Wilson in the August shooting of Michael Brown. The documents
were released by the St. Louis County prosecutor, Robert P. McCulloch.
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| Memphis, Tennessee, 2014 |
IN LGBT NEWS:
See where America’s gay, lesbian, bi
and transgender citizens have it worst
and transgender citizens have it worst
FREE THE WEED!!!
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
IN OUTER SPACE:
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