Hello again Headliners.Today’s birthday boy is Jazz composer and sax player Paul Desmond. Here are some of the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1487 – Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen of England.




• 1758 – French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. Later, Fort Pitt will be built nearby and grow into modern Pittsburgh.
• 1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.




• 1876 – American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife‘s sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
• 1915 – Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
• 1926 – The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history strikes on Thanksgiving Day. Twenty-seven twisters of great strength are reported in the Midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an estimated F4, that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. There are 51 deaths in Arkansas alone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all.
• 1947 – Red Scare: The “Hollywood Ten” are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.




• 1952 – Agatha Christie‘s murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. It will become the longest continuously-running play in history.
  1960 – The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.
• 1981 – Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.




• 1984 – Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid‘s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.




• 1986 – Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
• 1999 – The United Nations establishes the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to commemorate the murder of three Mirabal sisters for resistance against the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

FERGUSON FOLLOW-UP:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

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

IN LGBT NEWS:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

FREE THE WEED!!!

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

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