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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, March 8, 2015

March 8, 2015420, Bully, Bullying, Climate Change, Cops Gone Wild, Cyber-bullying, Ferguson, Fox News, Free the Weed, GOP, Hacking, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Mickey Dolenz, Outer Space, Racism, Religion, Republicans, The MonkeesHeadly Westerfield

Hiya, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1618 – Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
1655 – John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England’s North American colonies where a crime was not committed.
1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes “African Slavery in America”, the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
1782 – Gnadenhütten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1910 – French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot’s license.
1911 – International Women’s Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women’s Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
1917 – The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
1936 – Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
1949 – Mildred Gillars (“Axis Sally”) is condemned to prison for treason.
1957 – Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
1957 – Ghana joins the United Nations.
1963 – The Ba’ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d’état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
1974 – Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
1978 – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
1983 – While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an “evil empire“.
2004 – A new constitution is signed by Iraq‘s Governing Council.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

Climate Change Helped
Spark Syrian War, Study Says
Research provides first deep look at how global
warming may already influence armed conflict

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

The ‘Five Horsemen’ Of Wikipedia
Paid The Price For Getting
Between Trolls And Their Victims

How random is random on your music player?

HACK ATTACKS:

uTorrent’s latest update
installs a cryptocurrency miner

µTorrent’s Shady Bitcoin-Mining
Program Could Blow Up YourComputer

IN INNER SPACE:

Archaeologists find two lost
cities deep in Honduras jungle

After Menopause, Female
Killer Whales Help Pod Survive

Scientists have figured out what
makes Indian food so delicious

IN OUTER SPACE:

Spacecraft Dawn has arrived
at Ceres, one of solar system’s
last unexplored planets

Distant supernova split four ways by gravitational lens

NASA finds exoplanet 10 times the size of Jupiter that has four suns

Mars has lost an Arctic Ocean’s worth of water

“Known Unknowns” –The Strange Dark Side of the Universe

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, March 5, 2015

March 5, 2015420, Eddy Grant, Free the Weed, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Outer Space, Racism, Republicans, TortureHeadly Westerfield

Hey there, Headliners! Celebrating a birthday today is singer Eddy Grant, also creator of the musical genre Ringbang. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus‘s book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the Catholic Church

1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.

1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later.

1836 – Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.

1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.

1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a “bank holiday“, closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.

1933 – Adolf Hitler‘s Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.

1940 – Six high-ranking members of Soviet politburo, including General Secretary Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.

1946 – Winston Churchill coins the phrase “Iron Curtain” in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.

1960 – Cuban photographer Alberto Korda takes his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara.

1970 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.

1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.

1979 – America’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

Ben Carson says being gay is a
choice, citing prison example

Ben Carson apologizes for
comments on gay people

Ben Carson Blames Media: I’m Just
Not Going to Talk Gay Rights Anymore

Calif. attorney files for ballot initiative seeking to have all gays executed

Book of the Year: Biography Documenting
Worst Mass Killing of Gays in U.S. History

FREE THE WEED!!!

Jesse Teplicki, South Florida Man Charged With Growing Marijuana, Found Not Guilty

Jury acquits grower who cited
medical need for marijuana

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

7 clear ways Ferguson police violated
the Constitution, according to DOJ

WAR IS HELL:

Bush White House’s Repeated Torture Denials
Led CIA Torturers to Seek Repeated Reassurances

“New Torture Files”: Declassified Memos Detail Roles of Bush
White House and DOJ Officials Who Conspired to Approve Torture

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

Welfare Dynasty: Duck Dynasty Cast Receives $70,000 from Louisiana Taxpayers PER EPISODE

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:

Texas 4-year-old fatally shoots
self — just 2 days and a few miles
from 3-year-old who did the same

In alarming ruling, Missouri’s gun-friendly
Constitution now allows felons to possess weapons

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

Google Finally Overcomes Quantum Computing’s Biggest Paradox, Error Solving

IN INNER SPACE:

Patients with gout less likely
to develop Alzheimers disease

2nd superbug infection identified at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Oldest Human Fossil Found, Redrawing Family Tree
Discovery pushes back the origin of our genus, Homo, by half a million years.

Genghis Khan’s Lost Fortress Uncovered In Western Mongolia

Homer Simpson found the Higgs boson first, a science writer claims

IN OUTER SPACE:

Mysterious Mars Plume Discovery
Is Amateur Astronomy at Its Best

NASA eyes ion engines for
Mars orbiter launching in 2022

NASA creates ingredients of life in
harsh simulated space conditions

Ultracold-Resistant Chemical on Titan Could Allow It to Harbor Life

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, March 3, 2015

March 3, 2015420, Anti-Social Media, Bullying, Climate Change, Cops Gone Wild, Doc Watson, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Net Neutrality, Outer Space, Religion, Republicans, SCOTUS, TeabaggersHeadly Westerfield

Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Doc Watson. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1776 – American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.

1820 – The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.

1845 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.

1873 – Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any “obscene, lewd, or lascivious” books through the mail.

1875 – The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in the Montreal Gazette.

1885 – The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.

1904 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison‘s phonograph cylinder.

1913 – Thousands of women march in a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C.

1923 – TIME magazine is published for the first time.

1931 – The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.

1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.

1951 – Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records “Rocket 88“, often cited as “the first rock and roll record“, at Sam Phillips‘ recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.

1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.

1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.

2005 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

Christian Activist Files Ballot
Measure To Execute All Gay
People By ‘Bullets To The Head’

Federal Judge Overturns
Nebraska Gay Marriage Ban

FREE THE WEED!!!

Medical marijuana trial pits state vs. federal laws

U.S. Surgeon General Says ‘Marijuana Can Be Helpful’

Majority Of Republican Millennials
Support Marijuana Legalization

DEA Agent: Legalized Marijuana
Will Lead to Stoned Rabbits

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

This Lawmaker Wants a Civil Rights Organization for White People

GOP Lawmaker: ‘Colored’ People
‘Most Likely To Be Poor,’ ‘Poor
More Likely To Commit Crimes’

Man Who Believes God Speaks to Us Through “Duck
Dynasty” Is About to Be Texas’ Second-in-Command

TEABAGGERY IN THE YEW ESS EH:

Tea Party Radio Host Wants Black
Democrats ‘Hanging From a Noose’
for Boycotting Netanyahu Speech

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Hidden camera records Coconut
Creek cop receiving illegal ‘massage’

Cleveland officer’s pictures of his wife with police chief lead to arrest

BULLY IS AS BULLY DOES:

The world we live in…Man has it changed.

Yankees fire ticket taker
behind disturbing Schilling tweets

Curt Schilling’s revenge on
trolls who threatened daughter

GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:

Ben Carson: Religion is needed to interpret
science because ‘maybe it’s just propaganda’