Hello again, Headliners!Today’s birthday belongs to Mickey Rooney, who died earlier this year. He launched more than his fair share of Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1641 – The Merchant Royal, carrying a treasure worth over a billion US dollars, is lost at sea off Land’s End.
- 1642 – First commencement exercises occur at Harvard College.
- 1806 – Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
- 1845 – The Knickerbockers Baseball Club, the first baseball team to play under the modern rules, is founded in New York.
- 1846 – Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune.
- 1909 – The Phantom of the Opera (original title: Le Fantôme de l’Opéra), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
- 1932 – The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
- 1952 – Richard Nixon makes his “Checkers speech“.
- 1962 – The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts opens in New York City.
- 1969 – The Chicago Eight trial opens in Chicago.
- 1973 – Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
- 1999 – Celebrate Bisexuality Day was first observed in the United States.
- 2002 – The first public version of the web browser Mozilla Firefox (“Phoenix 0.1”) is released.
Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:
GOP STANDS FOR GOT OUR PREJUDICES:
WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE:
FREE THE WEED!!!
TEACHERS HOLD OUR FUTURE:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
THE FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
U.S. Naval War College Professor Tells O’Reilly:
“This Is A Terrible Idea, Not Just As A
Practical Matter But As A Moral Matter”
“This Is A Terrible Idea, Not Just As A
Practical Matter But As A Moral Matter”
ELISABETH HASSELBECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
HARRIS FAULKER IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Harris Faulker Discussing Man Who Jumped White House
Fence: “I Couldn’t Help But Let My Mind Just Flow” To Benghazi
Fence: “I Couldn’t Help But Let My Mind Just Flow” To Benghazi
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