Howdy, Headliners! Celebrating his 72nd birthday today is Isaac Hayes, or he would be had he not died in 2008. Here are some of the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1308 – Pope Clement V pardons Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, absolving him of charges of heresy.





• 1775 – The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.





• 1858 – Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace‘s same theory.




• 1866 – President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.




• 1882 – Tchaikovsky‘s 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia.
• 1920 – The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit, Michigan.








• 1940 – In Mexico City, Mexico exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day.




• 1940 – British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line “Never was so much owed by so many to so few“.




• 1968 – Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring.







• 1977 – Voyager Program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.




• 1986 – In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
• 1988 – Iran–Iraq War: a ceasefire is agreed after almost eight years of war.
• 1993 – After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.





• 1998 – The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government’s approval.

Let’s get to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

BIG BROTHER GOES TO A CONCERT:

Memphis, Tennessee – 1968

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

Ferguson, Missouri – 2014

FERGUSON; STATISTICS AND MORE:

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

FREE THE WEED!!!

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

CNN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

PETER JOHNSON, JR. IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

GERALDO RIVERA IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

DONALD TRUMP IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

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