Hey there, Headliners! Today’s birthday is celebrated by Herman Poole Blount, who the world better knew as Sun Ra. The Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear include:

• 1176 – The Hashshashin (Assassins) attempt to murder Saladin near Aleppo.
• 1807 – A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
• 1848 – Slavery is abolished in Martinique.




• 1849 – Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats over obstacles in a river, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent.




• 1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (“Bleeding Kansas“).
• 1872 – Reconstruction: U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
• 1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their “Flying-Machine“.
• 1943 – Joseph Stalin disbands Comintern.




• 1945 – Operation Paperclip
  – United States Army Major Robert B. Staver recommends that the U.S.
  evacuate German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.
• 1964 – The U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the goals of his Great Society social reforms to bring an “end to poverty and racial injustice” in America.
• 1969 – Apollo 10 ‘s lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon‘s surface.
• 1980 – Namco releases the highly influential arcade game Pac-Man.
• 1990 – Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.




• 1992 – After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show for the last time.
• 1998 – Lewinsky scandal: a federal judge rules that United States Secret Service agents can be compelled to testify before a grand jury concerning the scandal, involving President Bill Clinton.
• 2002 – American civil rights movement: a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicts former Ku Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry of the 1963 murders of four girls in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church.

Now today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

TODAY IN RELIGION:

FINALLY!!! A SOLUTION TO GLOBAL WARMING:

MORE ON CLIMATE CHANGE:

FREE THE WEED!!!

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

An oldie, but goodie, from the Not Now Silly photo archives

GLENN BECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

NO LONGER PREGGY LEGGY MEGGY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

WRETCHED GRETCHED IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

STEVE DOOCY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

GREGG JARRETT IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

CHARLES PAYNE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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