Hello again, Headliners.Today’s birthday belongs to Smiley Lewis, a New Orleans Rhythm & Blues artist. Here are some of the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1687 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
• 1775 – The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition.
• 1934 – “Bloody Thursday” – Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.




• 1935 – The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.




• 1937 – Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.




• 1946 – The bikini goes on sale after debuting during an outdoor fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris, France.




• 1948 – National Health Service Acts creates the national public health systems in the United Kingdom.





• 1950 – Zionism: The Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.




• 1954 – The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
• 1971 – Right to vote: The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon.





• 1975 – Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.
• 1989 – Iran–Contra affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell
  to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in
  fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions were later
  overturned.





• 1996 – Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.





• 2009 – The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England.

Now here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

BONUS VIDEO DU JOUR:

“GOP” STANDS FOR “GOT OUR PROPHYLACTICS?”

GOP ALSO STANDS FOR THE LAST CENTURY:

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

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

FREE THE WEED!!!

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

FOX NEWS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

STEVE DOOCY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

OUTNUMBERED IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN OUTER SPACE:

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