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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, July 5, 2014

July 5, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, facebook, Falafel King, Fox News, Free the Weed, Google, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Loofah Lad, Outer Space, Outnumbered, Racism, Religion, Smiley Lewis, Steve DoocyHeadly Westerfield

Hello again, Headliners.Today’s birthday belongs to Smiley Lewis, a New Orleans Rhythm & Blues artist. Here are some of the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1687 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

1775 – The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition.

1934 – “Bloody Thursday” – Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.

1935 – The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1937 – Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.

1946 – The bikini goes on sale after debuting during an outdoor fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris, France.

1948 – National Health Service Acts creates the national public health systems in the United Kingdom.

1950 – Zionism: The Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.

1954 – The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.

1971 – Right to vote: The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon.

1975 – Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.

1989 – Iran–Contra affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell
to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in
fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions were later
overturned.

1996 – Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.

2009 – The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England.

Now here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Anti-gay Archbishop under investigation
for sexual misconduct with other men

Rep. Paul Broun: Right to have ‘guns everywhere’ was ‘given by our Lord’

BONUS VIDEO DU JOUR:

On Social Media, Some Are Susceptible to Internet Outrage

Right to be forgotten: Google may hate it,
but we’re dangerously close to making it work

FOX NEWS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Republicans Have Been Secretly Helping To Elect Bill and Hillary Clinton By Watching Fox News

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Bill O’Reilly’s awful border plan:
Insane, cruel and comparatively moderate

STEVE DOOCY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox Host: Obama Avoiding Border for Fear
He Might ‘Catch Something’ from Immigrants

OUTNUMBERED IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Outnumbered: Outlandish,
Outdated, Overtly Biased

IN OUTER SPACE:

Study Disproves 2 Earth-like Planets’ Existence

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, July 2, 2014

July 2, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Cops Gone Wild, facebook, Festus, Festus Haggen, Fox News, Free the Weed, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Jesse Watters, Ken Curtis, LGBT, Loofah Lad, NBC, Outer Space, Tea Party, TeabaggersHeadly Westerfield

Howdy, Headliners. It’s the 183rd day of the year — with just 182 left — which means 2014 is now more than half over. Celebrating a birthday today is Ken Curtis, who played Festus Haggen on Gunsmoke, but was one of The Sons of the Pioneers. Let’s look at some of the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1504 – Bogdan III the One-Eyed becomes Voivode of Moldavia.
1679 – Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
1698 – Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.
1777 – Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery.
1822 – 35 African American slaves are hanged in South Carolina, including Denmark Vesey, after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion.
1839 – Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad.
1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19.
1890 – The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
1897 – Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
1900 – The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
1962 – The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
2001 – The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.
2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.

Now here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

WATCH: SC trooper threatens Taser on cooperative NFL player during traffic arrest

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

Tea Party Gov. Paul LePage held several
meetings with FBI-designated terrorist group

THE “G” IN GOP STANDS FOR GETOUTTAHERE!

Rick Santorum: Founding fathers had
right idea limiting those who could vote

IN LGBT NEWS:

The invention of the heterosexual

The history of straightness is much shorter
than you’d think. An expert explains its origins

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

NY man walks into business for
a job, shoots two workers and
himself when he doesn’t get it

Firearms dealer shoots woman while teaching concealed carry safety at PA gun show

FREE THE WEED!!!

Iowa’s new medical
marijuana law takes effect today

Colorado recreational marijuana
industry begins major transformation

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

Twitter Chat: The ethics of
Facebook’s mood manipulation study

NBC IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

George Zimmerman Loses Lawsuit; It’s
Not NBC’s Fault He Appears to be a Racist

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox Turns To Extremist Group To Clear Up “Misinformation”
On Hobby Lobby Case

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly Claims
A Liberal SCOTUS Will Lead
To Slavery And Loss Of Freedom

Bill O’Reilly: One more liberal Supreme Court justice could end freedom ‘forever’

JESSE WATTERS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Watters: Single Women Are
“Beyonce Voters” Who “Depend On
Government Because They’re Not
Depending On Their Husbands”

IN INNER SPACE:

Chilean Devil Rays Dive
Deeper Than You Think

Ancient baby boom delivers a
lesson in population management

IN OUTER SPACE:

Saturn-orbiting spacecraft to
go out with a bang, says NASA

Biggest meteor recorded in the
UK lights up skies above Devon

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, June 30, 2014

June 30, 2014420, Climate Change, DNA, facebook, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Income Inequality, Karl Rove, KKKarl Rove, Larry Gatlin, Murray McLaughlan, Religion, Space, Tea Party, TeabaggersHeadly Westerfield

It’s the last day of June, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Canadian troubadour Murry McLaughlin. Here are some of the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.

1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.

1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for “public use, resort and recreation”.

1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.

1886 – The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.

1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity.

1908 – The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.

1922 – In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes-Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.

1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler‘s violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.

1937 – The world’s first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London

1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.

1966 – The National Organization for Women, the United States’ largest feminist organization, is founded.

1971 – Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, reducing the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.

1986 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.

1987 – The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

INCOME INEQUALITY IN ‘MERKA:

Why Republicans Refuse to
Recognize Class Privilege

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

Climate change may cause
Emperor penguins’ extinction

THE “G” IN GOP STANDS FOR GOOFBALL:

Man Who Believes ‘Obamacare Causes
Cancer’ Wins GOP Primary In Colorado