Hello Headliners! It’s the birthday of Richard Berry, who wrote one of the most important songs — and depending on who you believe: the dirtiest song — in all of Rock and Roll. Let’s start with the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1876 – The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
• 1919 – The International Labour Organization is founded.
• 1945 – World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.




• 1951 – Korean War: President Harry Truman relieves General of the Army Douglas MacArthur of overall command in Korea.
• 1961 – The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.
• 1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.




• 1970 – Apollo 13 is launched.





• 1976 – The Apple I is created.




• 2012 – An 8.2 magnitude earthquake hits Indonesia, off northern Sumatra at a depth of 16.4 km. A tsunami hits the island of Nias at Indonesia.

Said, me gotta go . . . right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

FREE THE WEED!!!

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OUTRAGEOUS:

A DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

NATURE IS COMPLICATED:

WATERGATE WATCH:

Did Roger Ailes Dupe James
Rosen, Or Did Rosen Dupe ‘Merka?

MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:

BULLY CORNER:

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

RECTUM? DAMN NEAR KILLED ‘IM!

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

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