Hello, Headliners. Today’s birthday is ZERO degrees from Kevin Bacon, born on this day in1958. Here are some Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:
- 1099 – First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in a religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
- 1663 – Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal charter to Rhode Island.
- 1775 – The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies.
- 1822 – Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
- 1876 – White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina.
- 1889 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
- 1898 – The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.
- 1932 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.
- 1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
- 1960 – Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.
- 1968 – The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1970 – Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
- 1982 – Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail.
- 2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.
Let’s look at today’s Headlines Du Jour:
SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST RACIAL SOCIETY:
GET THE FRACK OUTTA HERE!!!
GET THE TRUCK OUTTA HERE!!!
Conservatives who show their
annoyance with liberals, Obama,
and the EPA by blowing black
smoke from their trucks.
annoyance with liberals, Obama,
and the EPA by blowing black
smoke from their trucks.
FREE THE WEED!!!
SCOTUS WATCH:
GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:
FOX & FRIENDS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
DR. BEN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:
IN INNER SPACE:
IN OUTER SPACE:
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