Heya, Headliners! Today’s birthday is keyboard player Al Kooper. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 62 – Earthquake in Pompeii, Italy.
- 1778 – South Carolina becomes the second state to ratify the Articles of Confederation.
- 1852 – The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.
- 1917 – The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson‘s veto. Also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act, it forbade immigration from nearly all of south and southeast Asia.
- 1918 – Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane. It is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
- 1919 – Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
- 1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the “BBC pips”.
- 1937 – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1958 – A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
- 1971 – Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
- 1972 – Bob Douglas becomes the first African American elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame.
- 1976 – The 1976 swine flu outbreak begins at Fort Dix, NJ.
- 1988 – Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges.
- 1994 – Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
- 1997 – The so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
And, here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
IN LGBT NEWS:
IN INCOME INEQUALITY:
A report found that, even though states home
to major metropolitan financial centers such as
New York, Chicago, and the Bay Area had the highest
levels of income inequality, the gap between the rich
and the poor has increased in every region of the country.
to major metropolitan financial centers such as
New York, Chicago, and the Bay Area had the highest
levels of income inequality, the gap between the rich
and the poor has increased in every region of the country.
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
MORE OF THAT GOP OUTREACH:
BULLY IS AS BULLY DOES:
I’m often deluged with hate online – and I’m used to being
told not to feed the trolls. But after one of them stole my
dead dad’s identity to abuse me, I decided to ask him why
told not to feed the trolls. But after one of them stole my
dead dad’s identity to abuse me, I decided to ask him why
NET NEUTRALITY:
HACK ATTACKS:
ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:
TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
‘Mean Girls’ Star Lindsay Lohan,
Mom Sue Fox News Hosts Sean
Hannity, Michelle Fields For Defamation
Mom Sue Fox News Hosts Sean
Hannity, Michelle Fields For Defamation
‘Fox & Friends’ Host: ‘Frozen’ Depicts
Men as ‘Evil and Cold and Bumblers’
“It would be nice for Hollywood to have more male
figures in those kind of movies as heroes,” Steve Doocy adds
Men as ‘Evil and Cold and Bumblers’
“It would be nice for Hollywood to have more male
figures in those kind of movies as heroes,” Steve Doocy adds
FREE THE WEED!!!
IN INNER SPACE:
It’s too early to say if the Sierra Nevada
red fox is rebounding, experts say.
red fox is rebounding, experts say.
IN OUTER SPACE:
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