Hello again, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to Bud Collyer, who most people know as a game show host, but he was also the first voice of Superman. Here are some Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1429 – French forces under the leadership of Joan of Arc defeat the main English army under Sir John Fastolf at the Battle of Patay. This turns the tide of the Hundred Years’ War.
• 1684 – The charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony is revoked via a scire facias writ issued by an English court.




• 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British troops abandon Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1812 – War of 1812: The U.S. Congress declares war on Great Britain, Canada, and Ireland.
• 1858 – Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin’s own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.
• 1873 – Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
• 1923 – Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.




• 1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic).
• 1940 – “Finest Hour” speech by Winston Churchill.
• 1979 – SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
• 1983 – Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
• 1996 – Ted Kaczynski, suspected of being the Unabomber, is indicted on ten criminal counts.

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

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

THE “G” IN GOP STANDS FOR GOOFBALLS:

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

FREE THE WEED!!!

TODAY IN ATHEISM:

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORK:

CNN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

MORNING JOE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

OUTNUMBERED IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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