Hello, Headliners. Today’s birthday is ZERO degrees from Kevin Bacon, born on this day in1958. Here are some Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1099 – First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in a religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
- 1663 – Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal charter to Rhode Island.
- 1775 – The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies.
- 1822 – Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
- 1876 – White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina.
- 1889 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
- 1898 – The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
- 1932 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
- 1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
- 1960 – Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
- 1968 – The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1970 – Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
- 1982 – Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail.
- 2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
Let’s look at today’s Headlines Du Jour:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST RACIAL SOCIETY:
GET THE FRACK OUTTA HERE!!!
GET THE TRUCK OUTTA HERE!!!
annoyance with liberals, Obama,
and the EPA by blowing black
smoke from their trucks.
FREE THE WEED!!!
SCOTUS WATCH:
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
FOX & FRIENDS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
DR. BEN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
VIDEO DU JOUR:
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