Howdy, Headliners! Today’s birthday boy is Basil Rathbone, who played both heroes and villains in his long career. Here are some of the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1740 – Georgia provincial governor James Oglethorpe begins an unsuccessful attempt to take Spanish Florida during the Siege of St. Augustine.
- 1774 – Rhode Island becomes the first of Britain’s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
- 1805 – Lewis and Clark Expedition: scouting ahead of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four companions sight the Great Falls of the Missouri River.
- 1893 – Grover Cleveland notices a rough spot in his mouth and on July 1 undergoes secret, successful surgery
to remove a large, cancerous portion of his jaw; operation not revealed
to US public until 1917, nine years after the president’s death. - 1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
- 1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.
- 1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
- 1970 – “The Long and Winding Road” becomes the Beatles‘ last US Number 1 song.
- 1977 – Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before.
- 1983 – Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the furthest planet from the Sun at the time).
- 1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
- 1997 – A jury sentences Timothy McVeigh to death for his part in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
- 2000 – Italy pardons Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish gunman who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in 1981.
- 2005 – A jury in Santa Maria, California acquits pop singer Michael Jackson of molesting 13-year-old Gavin Arvizo at his Neverland Ranch.
Let’s get to today’s Headlines Du Jour:
IN LGBT NEWS:
TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?
TODAY IN RELIGION:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:
ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:
TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:
FREE THE WEED!!!
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
CBS NEWS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
CNN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
A new study reveals the gap between
the channel’s fans and the rest of America
the channel’s fans and the rest of America
LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
The Falafel King said the same thing in 2011:
O’Reilly Interviews Polygamous Family To
Push His Theory That Legalizing Same-Sex
Marriage Will Lead To Plural Marriage
O’Reilly Interviews Polygamous Family To
Push His Theory That Legalizing Same-Sex
Marriage Will Lead To Plural Marriage
JESSE WATTERS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
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