Heya, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Elmore James, slide guitarist and Blues singer. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1302 – Dante Alighieri, the poet and politician is exiled from Florence, Italy, where he served as one of six priors governing the city.
• 1343 – Pope Clement VI issues the papal bull Unigenitus to justify the power of the pope and the use of indulgences. Nearly 200 years later, Martin Luther would protest this.
• 1593 – The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.
• 1606 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators begins, ending with their execution on January 31.
• 1825 – The U.S. Congress approves Indian Territory (in what is present-day Oklahoma), clearing the way for forced relocation of the Eastern Indians on the “Trail of Tears“.
• 1880 – Thomas Edison receives the patent on the incandescent lamp, the first light bulb. [1]
• 1945 – World War II: The Red Army liberates the remained inmates of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp built by the Nazi Germans on the territory of Poland.
• 1951 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat.
• 1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
• 1967 – The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
• 1973 – The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. Colonel William Nolde is killed in action becoming the conflict’s last recorded American combat casualty.
• 1980 – Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.
• 1996 – Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
• 2003 – The first selections for the National Recording Registry are announced by the Library of Congress.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

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

MORE OF THAT GOP OUTREACH:

NEVER FORGET!!!

PRATTLIN’ PALIN:

IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

IN LGBT NEWS:

BULLY IS AS BULLY DOES:

SCOTUS WATCH:

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:

HACK ATTACKS:

MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

FREE THE WEED!!!

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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