Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Big Mama Thornton. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 630 – Muhammad leads an army of 10,000 to conquer Mecca.
• 1789 – The University of North Carolina is chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly.




• 1816 – Indiana becomes the 19th U.S. state.




• 1934 – Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, takes his last drink and enters treatment for the last time.
• 1941 – World War II: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States, following the Americans’ declaration of war on the Empire of Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declares war on them.
• 1962 – Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.




• 1964 – Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York.




• 1968 – The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, featuring the Rolling Stones, Jethro Tull, the Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and the Dirty Mac with Yoko Ono, is filmed in Wembley, London.




• 1972 – Apollo 17 becomes the sixth and last Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
• 1997 – The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.
• 2006 – Felipe Calderón, the President of Mexico, launches a military-led offensive to put down the drug cartel violence in the state of Michoacán. This effort is often regarded as the first event in the Mexican Drug War.
• 2008 – Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

THE TORTURE REPORT:

IN LGBT NEWS:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

FREE THE WEED!!!

MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:

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

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