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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, January 11, 2015

January 11, 2015420, Charlie Hebdo, Climate Change, Cops Gone Wild, DNA, Fox News, Free the Weed, George Zimmerman, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Outer Space, Racism, Republicans, Slim HarpoHeadly Westerfield

Good day, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to James Isaac Moore, better known as Slim Harpo, purveyor of the Blues. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1569 – First recorded lottery in England.

1759 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the first American life insurance company is incorporated.

1787 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus.

1805 – The Michigan Territory is created.

1861 – Alabama secedes from the United States.

1908 – Grand Canyon National Monument is created.

1922 – First use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient.

1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.

1935 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.

1949 – The first “networked” television broadcasts take place as KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania goes on the air connecting the east coast and mid-west programming.

1960 – Henry Lee Lucas, once listed as America’s most prolific serial killer, commits his first known murder.

1964 – Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Luther Terry, M.D., publishes the landmark report Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking national and worldwide anti-smoking efforts.

1972 – East Pakistan renames itself Bangladesh.

1994 – The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.

1996 – Space Shuttle program: STS-72 launches from the Kennedy Space Center marking the start of the 74th Space Shuttle mission and the 10th flight of Endeavour.

2003 – Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois‘ death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

Bill O’Reilly Claims No-Go Zones And High
Muslim Population Led To Terror Attacks

Murdoch to Muslims: Destroy ‘Jihadist
Cancer’ or Be Held Responsible for Terror

FREE THE WEED!!!

The War on Drugs Is Burning Out

Which State Has Seen The
Greatest Rise in Pot Use?

180 Marijuana Dispensaries Pop Up In Detroit:
‘This Is The Next Big Thing In The City’

Marijuana Tax Millions? Hallucinations Up In
Smoke, Yet Feds Propose 50% Federal Tax Too

IN INNER SPACE:

Graves and Garbage: The
Hard Life of an Archeologist

Design Your Own Dinosaur:
The Era of Custom DNA

DNA, It Turns Out, Is A Lot More Loopy

China: 30 tombs, 28 chariots
and 98 horse skeletons dating
back 2,800 years found in Hubei

Also discovered are some of the earliest
music instruments ever found in China

Can DNA Nanobots Successfully Treat
Cancer Patients? First Human Trial Soon

A Mitochondrial DNA Transplant Could Help Treat Hundreds Of Diseases

IN OUTER SPACE:

NASA probe to arrive at Pluto
carrying ashes of Clyde Tombaugh

NASA’s New Horizons probe will arrive at the
dwarf-planet carrying the astrophysicist’s ashes

Astronomers Probe Milky
Way’s Mysterious Fermi Bubbles

‘Close, but No Cigar’ for Landing
on Historic SpaceX Mission

Rare binary pulsar star measures space-time warp before finally fading

NASA and Nissan Team Up to Build Self-Driving Vehicles for Earth and Mars

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, January 8, 2015

January 8, 2015420, Charlie Hebdo, Climate Change, Cops Gone Wild, Elvis Presley, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Outer Space, Racism, Religion, RepublicansHeadly Westerfield

Howdy, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Elvis Presley, who helped kick start Rock and Roll. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1697 – Last execution for blasphemy in Britain; of Thomas Aikenhead, student, at Edinburgh.

1790 – George Washington delivers the first State of the Union address in New York, New York.

1811 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes in St. Charles and St. James, Louisiana.

1815 – War of 1812: Battle of New Orleans – Andrew Jackson leads American forces in victory over the British.

1835 – The United States national debt is zero for the only time.

1867 – African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.

1877 – Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle against the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain, Montana Territory.

1940 – World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.

1963 – Leonardo da Vinci‘s Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a “War on Poverty” in the United States.

1973 – Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.

1973 – Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.

1982 – Breakup of the Bell System: AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.

2002 – President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.

2011 – The attempted assassination of Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store, for which Jared Lee Loughner is subsequently arrested, kills six people and wounds 13, including Giffords.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

CHARLIE HEBDO ATTACKS:

France mourns as manhunt for
suspects in militant attack continues

Charlie Hebdo: A Profile of
the Satirical French Newspaper

The war on laughter: What the Charlie Hebdo
attacks reveal about our thorny relationship with satire

Harry Shearer on The Dangerous Business of Satire

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

The new Congress is 80 percent white,
80 percent male and 92 percent Christian

Blacks far more likely to be
pulled over, but whites far more
likely to have contraband: study

The NYPD Officers Who
See Racial Bias in the NYPD

#BlackBrunch protests disrupt ‘white spaces,’
provoke gun threat from ex-NYPD cop

FBI looking for man regarding explosion
near Colorado Springs NAACP office

MORE OF THAT GOP OUTREACH:

Boehner punishes the Tea Party: Why
the speaker is finally seeking revenge

The speaker is removing rebellious House conservatives
from plum committee assignments — at long last

What’s Really Wrong With the GOP

Chris Christie: ‘These Philadelphia
Fans, They Are The Worst In America’

Chris Christie Pushed Port Authority To Give Contract To Jerry Jones’ Firm

IN LGBT NEWS:

Miami Beach renewal of vows ceremony
for same-sex couples attracts hundreds

South Florida gay couples marry
in early morning ceremonies

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

Climate-change denialism added to West Virginia science standards to appease coal-loving officials

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Catholic League: Paris Terrorism Victims
Have Themselves To Blame For Their Deaths

Demoted Catholic cardinal blames
“feminized” church for priest pedophilia

Archaeologists find possible
site of Jesus’s trial in Jerusalem