Hello, Headliners!!! On this, the 87th birthday of Sidney Poitier, let’s first take a look at some of the Headlines Du Jour from yesteryear:
• 1816 – Rossini’s opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
• 1872 – In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
• 1877 – Tchaikovsky‘s ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
• 1933 – Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party‘s upcoming election campaign.
• 1943 – American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
• 1952 – Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
• 1959 – The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
• 1965 – Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:
SO GLAD WE ARE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
SO GLAD WE ARE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
George Zimmerman’s BFF Called Oprah the N-Word
FBI Investigating Racial Vandalism Of Ole Miss Statue
New Georgia Specialty License Plate Features A Confederate Flag
IN LGBT NEWS:
Gambian president: LGBT stands for “Leprosy, Gonorrhoea, Bacteria and Tuberculosis”
FREE THE WEED!!!
Minnesota Poll: Majority support legalization of medical marijuana
TODAY IN RELIGION:
Mississippi church floor collapses, around 35
injured: report
THE LITTLE BROTHER WATCHING BIG BROTHER:
Meet Jonathan Mayer, The Stanford Ph.D. Student Who’s Reverse-Engineering The NSA
THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:
GOP Candidate Arrested for Assaulting
Man Who Called Him ‘RINO’
A MEMBER OF THE CORRUPT GOVERNORS CLUB:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Bill Maher Claims MSNBC Is Turning Into Fox News
HISTORY IS COMPLICATED. THE HISTORY OF CRYPTOGRAPHY EVEN MORE SO:
IN OUTER SPACE:
Our entire universe might
exist inside a massive
black hole, say physicists
Supernova secrets seen in X-rays
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