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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, April 15, 2014

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Howdy Headliners. Today’s birthday is Rockpile’s Dave Edmunds, born on this day in 1944. Among the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear are the twin tragedies of the RMS Titanic (1912) and the Boston Marathon Bombing (2013). Let’s review some of those other events:

1755 – Samuel Johnson‘s A Dictionary of the English Language is published in London.

1783 – Preliminary articles of peace ending the American Revolutionary War (or American War of Independence) are ratified.

1861 – President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War

1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.

1892 – The General Electric Company is formed.

1896 – Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.

1920 – Two security guards are murdered during a robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts. Anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti would be convicted of and executed for the crime, amid much controversy.

1923 – Insulin becomes generally available for use by people with diabetes.

1924 – Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.

1945 – The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.

1947 – Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball’s color line.

1955 – McDonald’s restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois

1960 – At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

1965 – The first Ford Mustang rolls off the show room floor, two days before it is set to go on sale nationwide.

Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

BONUS VIDEO DU JOUR:

THE REICH WING PUSHES THE BIG LIES:

From Death Panels To Death Spirals: The Right-Wing
Media’s Epic Five-Year Health Care Disinformation Campaign

FREE THE WEED!!!

Maryland Decriminalizes Marijuana Possession

Push to legalize recreational
marijuana in Lapeer

This Is What The World’s Most ‘Perfect’ Marijuana High Would Feel Like

COPS GONE WILD:

Albuquerque’s long history of
police abuse, cover-up and scandal

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

In mix-up, woman pregnant with other couple’s twins

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

U.S. Airways just sent
out the worst tweet in
the history of Twitter

Teens Are Leaving
Facebook For Facebook

DR. DONG. CALLING DR. DONG!

Doctors remove skipping
rope from man’s urethra

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Spurious Cattle Conspiracy Dodges
Facts But Still Lands On Fox News
Debunked Theory Accused Sen. Harry Reid Of
Collaborating With Chinese Firm In Corrupt “Land Grab”

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Brit Hume to O’Reilly: When You’re
White, Discussing Race Makes You Racist

IN OUTER SPACE:

Hubble stretches stellar tape
measure 10 times farther into space

NASA Cassini Images May
Reveal Birth of a Saturn Moon

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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, April 13, 2014

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Hello Headliners. It’s the birthday of Butch Cassidy, born on this day in 1866. He knew a thing or two about the Headlines of Du Jour of yesteryear.

1613 – Samuel Argall captures Native American princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father. She is brought to Henricus as hostage.

1796 – The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.

1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.

1873 – The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 African Americans are murdered, takes place.

1919 – Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.

1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson‘s birth.

1953 – CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA.

1960 – The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world’s first satellite navigation system.

1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

1970 – An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.

1974 – Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States’ first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.

1997 – Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.

Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBSTRUCTIONISTS:

Evidence of GOP Interference in
VW Election Is Now Overwhelming

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

Conservatives Attack Obamacare,
Eye 2016 At High-Profile Summit

THE GEORGE W. BUSH LEGACY:

CIA and White House Under Pressure
After Senate Torture Report Leaks

Senate committee found CIA interrogations and detentions to be ‘brutal’ and urges administration to release report as quickly as possible.

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Florida bill would allow hidden guns for
all in times of turmoil, widespread panic

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Iowa Governor Signs Away
Separation of Church and State

Pope Francis assumes
responsibility for priest sex abuse

ANOTHER EXCITING EPSIODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Former Ore. deputy, 42,
and 17-year-old girl missing

ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

9 ways scrappers are destroying Detroit area