Good day, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to James Isaac Moore, better known as Slim Harpo, purveyor of the Blues. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1569 – First recorded lottery in England.
- 1759 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.
- 1787 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.
- 1805 – The Michigan Territory is created.
- 1861 – Alabama secedes from the United States.
- 1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
- 1922 – First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.
- 1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.
- 1935 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
- 1949 – The first “networked” television broadcasts take place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.
- 1960 – Henry Lee Lucas, once listed as America’s most prolific serial killer, commits his first known murder.
- 1964 – Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.
- 1972 – East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.
- 1994 – The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
- 1996 – Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.
- 2003 – Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois‘ death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:
CHARLIE HEBDO ATTACKS:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
MORE OF THAT GOP OUTREACH:
IN LGBT NEWS:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:
ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF ZIMMERMAN GONE WILD:
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:
HACK ATTACKS:
FOX NEWS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
Bill O’Reilly Claims No-Go Zones And High
Muslim Population Led To Terror Attacks
Muslim Population Led To Terror Attacks
FREE THE WEED!!!
IN INNER SPACE:
Also discovered are some of the earliest
music instruments ever found in China
music instruments ever found in China
IN OUTER SPACE:
NASA’s New Horizons probe will arrive at the
dwarf-planet carrying the astrophysicist’s ashes
dwarf-planet carrying the astrophysicist’s ashes
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