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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday August 26, 2014

August 26, 2014420, Andrea Tantaros, CNN, Cops Gone Wild, DNA, facebook, Ferguson, Fox & Friends, Fox Nation, Fox News, Free the Weed, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Leon Redbone, New York Times, Outer SpaceHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners! Today’s birthday boy is Leon Redbone. While his songs sound like they come from previous eras, here are some of the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1498 – Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà.
1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1768 – Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board HMS Endeavour.
1789 – The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
1791 – John Fitch is granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
1883 – The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
1920 – The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
1942 – Holocaust in Chortkiav, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of their houses, divides them into groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 to Belzec death camp. 500 of the sick and children are murdered on the spot.
1944 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters Paris.
1970 – The then new feminist movement, led by Betty Friedan, leads a nation-wide Women’s Strike for Equality.
1977 – The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of Quebec
2002 – Earth Summit 2002 begins in Johannesburg, South Africa

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

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Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, June 13, 2014

June 13, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, CBS, CNN, facebook, Fox Nation, Free the Weed, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Income Inequality, Jesse Watters, LGBT, Loofah Lad, Outer Space, Racism, Religion, Tea Party, TeabaggersHeadly Westerfield

Howdy, Headliners! Today’s birthday boy is Basil Rathbone, who played both heroes and villains in his long career. Here are some of the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1740 – Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.

1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain’s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.

1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.

1893 – Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery
to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed
to US public until 1917, nine years after the president’s death.

1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.

1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.

1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

1970 – “The Long and Winding Road” becomes the Beatles‘ last US Number 1 song.

1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.

1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the furthest planet from the Sun at the time).

1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.

1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.

2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.

2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.

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

IN LGBT NEWS:

Oklahoma GOPer: “We would be
totally in the right” if the state
started executing gay people

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

Tea Party Express Says Because Obama
is Black, Americans Suffer and Die

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Creationist asks ‘hard question’: ‘If
evolution is true, is rape wrong?’

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

White Iowa Teacher Tells Black
Student To Call Him ‘Master’

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

Facebook will gather more user
information, but offer more control over ads

TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

How to combat the tightening
grip of inequality around the globe

FREE THE WEED!!!

New Report Blasts DEA For Spending 4
Decades Obstructing Marijuana Science

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

It’s Really Hard to Be a Good Guy With a Gun

Out of this world: Man shoots at
the moon, gets arrested by PVPD

Pat Robertson: Don’t ‘get your father
busted’ if he threatens mom with a gun

CBS NEWS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

News Ethicists Rip CBS News’
“Outrageous” Cantor Ethics Failure

CNN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Why CNN is so afraid of admitting that
America’s terror attacks are right-wing

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Does Fox News Cause Ignorance, or
Do Ignorant Viewers Prefer Fox News?

A new study reveals the gap between
the channel’s fans and the rest of America

Fox News Is STILL Killing The Republican Party

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

O’Reilly: Polyamorous Relationships Are A “Logical Progression” From Same-Sex Marriage

The Falafel King said the same thing in 2011:
O’Reilly Interviews Polygamous Family To
Push His Theory That Legalizing Same-Sex
Marriage Will Lead To Plural Marriage

JESSE WATTERS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox reporter: Sex with
underage boys becomes
more acceptable the
‘hotter’ the woman is

IN INNER SPACE:

Oceans of Water Locked 400 Miles Inside Earth

IN OUTER SPACE:

Outstanding Time-Lapse of a
Stellar Explosion From Hubble

Will NASA’s Pluto Flyby in 2015 Reignite Planet Debate?

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, May 15, 2014

May 15, 2014420, Abraham Zapruder, Bill O'Reilly, Detroit, facebook, Fox Nation, Fox News, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Karl Rove, LGBT, Loofah Lad, Megyn Kelly, Religion, Tea Party, TeabaggersHeadly Westerfield

Hello there, Headliners!!! Today’s birthday boy is Abraham Zapruder, who shot the most famous movie ever made, one that launched its own Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear. Here are some more:

1536 – Anne Boleyn,
Queen of England, stands trial in London on charges of treason,
adultery and incest. She is condemned to death by a specially-selected jury.

1618 – Johannes Kepler confirms his previously rejected discovery of the third law of planetary motion (he first discovered it on March 8 but soon rejected the idea after some initial calculations were made).

1776 – American Revolution: the Virginia Convention instructs its Continental Congress delegation to propose a resolution of independence from Great Britain, paving the way for the United States Declaration of Independence.

1869 – Women’s suffrage: in New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.

1905 – Las Vegas, is founded when 110 acres (0.45 km2), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.

1911 – In Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an “unreasonable” monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.

1928 – Walt Disney character Mickey Mouse premieres in his first cartoon, Plane Crazy

1940 – McDonald’s opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.

1958 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.

1960 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.

1963 – Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space.

1969 – People’s Park: California Governor Ronald Reagan
has an impromptu student park owned by University of California at
Berkeley fenced off from student anti-war protestors, sparking a riot
called Bloody Thursday.

1972 – In Laurel, Maryland, Arthur Bremer shoots and paralyzes Alabama Governor George Wallace while he is campaigning to become President.

2008 – California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state’s own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.

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