Hello Headliners! Today’s birthday belonds to the One! The only!! GROUCHO!!! Julius Henry Marx saw more than his fair share of Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1535 – Jacques Cartier discovers the area where Montreal is located.
- 1789 – George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
- 1835 – The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
- 1889 – In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
- 1919 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
- 1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
- 1937 – Dominican Republic strongman Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of the Haitian population living within the borderlands; approximately 20,000 are killed over the next five days.
- 1944 – World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
- 1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published.
- 1959 – The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.
- 1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
- 1979 – Pope John Paul II denounces all forms of concentration camps and torture while speaking at the U.N. in New York City.
- 1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
- 2001 – NATO backs U.S. military strikes following 9/11.
- 2006 – Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
Now for today’s Headlines Du Jour:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
TODAY IN LGBT:
TODAY IN RELIGION:
FREE THE WEED!!!
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:
TODAY IN GLOBAL WARMING:
PEEKING INTO WINDOWS:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
BOB BECKEL IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
THE FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
O’Reilly: Interviewers Should “Be Provocative” And Ask Obama “Isn’t It Your Fault That These Two American Journalists Were Beheaded?”
WRETCHED GRETCHED IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
ALLEN WEST IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
MEDIA MAN HOWARD KURTZ IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
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STEVE DOOCY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Fox’s Doocy: “If Barack Obama Could, He Would Ban Guns In The Hands Of Everybody Except The Police”
BRAIN BRIAN KILMEADE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
West Says “It Would Be An Incredible
Honor” To Become Director
Honor” To Become Director
ELISABETH HASSELBECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
KKKARL ROVE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
MARTHA MACCALLUM IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
THE TARANTULA IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
OUTNUMBERED IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
BULLY BOY BOLLING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
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