Hello, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to actor, writer, singer Harry Shearer. Here are other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1783 – George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.





• 1823 – A Visit from St. Nicholas, also known as The Night Before Christmas, is published anonymously.




• 1913 – The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve System.
• 1938 – Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.
• 1947 – The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.




• 1948 – Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo, Japan.




• 1954 – First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.
• 1968 – The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.




• 1970 – The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York, New York is topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world.
• 1972 – The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having survived by cannibalism.
• 1986 – Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.

And now today’s Headlines Du Jour:

THE TORTURE REPORT:

MORE FERGUSON FALLOUT:

FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS:

MORE OF THAT GOP OUTREACH:

IN LGBT NEWS:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:

FREE THE WEED!!!

HACK ATTACKS:

CLIMATE CHANGE:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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