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Hello Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to John Lennon, who made more Headlines Du Jour than anyone you can name. Here are some other headlines of yesteryear:
- 1604 – Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way.
- 1635 – Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he speaks out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
- 1767 – Surveying for the Mason–Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania is completed.
- 1824 – Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica.
- 1888 – The Washington Monument officially opens to the general public.
- 1919 – Black Sox Scandal: The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series.
- 1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles.
- 1967 – A day after being captured, Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.
- 1969 – In Chicago, the United States National Guard is called in for crowd control as demonstrations continue in connection with the trial of the “Chicago Eight” that began on September 24.
- 1986 – The musical The Phantom of the Opera has its first performance at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London.
- 1992 – A 13 kilogram (est.) fragment of the Peekskill meteorite lands in the driveway of the Knapp residence in Peekskill, New York, destroying the family’s 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
- 2006 – North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
- 2009 – First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA‘s Lunar Precursor Robotic Program.
Now here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
IN LGBT NEWS:
MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
TODAY IN RELIGION:
TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:
FREE THE WEED!!!
KICKING COLUMBUS TO THE CURB:
KICKING AUNT JEMIMA TO THE CURB:
KICKING COMCAST TO THE CURB:
FOX NEWS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
RUPERT MURDOCH IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
THE FIVE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
BOB BECKEL IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
STEVE DOOCY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
BRAINBRIAN KILMEADE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
HOWARD KURTZ IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
HUCKLEBERRY HOUND IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
KENNEDY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
VIDEOS DU JOUR:
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