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:

ELISABETH HASSELBECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

HARRIS FAULKER IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN OUTER SPACE:

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