Howdy, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Elvis Presley, who helped kick start Rock and Roll. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1697 – Last execution for blasphemy in Britain; of Thomas Aikenhead, student, at Edinburgh.
- 1790 – George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.
- 1811 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.
- 1815 – War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.
- 1835 – The United States national debt is zero for the only time.
- 1867 – African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
- 1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.
- 1940 – World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
- 1963 – Leonardo da Vinci‘s Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
- 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a “War on Poverty” in the United States.
- 1973 – Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
- 1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
- 1982 – Breakup of the Bell System: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
- 2002 – President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
- 2011 – The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store, for which Jared Lee Loughner is subsequently arrested, kills six people and wounds 13, including Giffords.
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
CHARLIE HEBDO ATTACKS:
The war on laughter: What the Charlie Hebdo
attacks reveal about our thorny relationship with satire
attacks reveal about our thorny relationship with satire
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
MORE OF THAT GOP OUTREACH:
The speaker is removing rebellious House conservatives
from plum committee assignments — at long last
from plum committee assignments — at long last
IN LGBT NEWS:
TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:
TODAY IN RELIGION:
MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:
FREE THE WEED!!!
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
VIDEOS DU JOUR:
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