Hiya, Headliners.Today’s birthday belongs to folksinger Donovan, who occasionally sang about the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacks the city’s Third Wall to the northwest.
• 1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.




• 1503 – Christopher Columbus visits the Cayman Islands and names them Las Tortugas after the numerous turtles there.




• 1773 – The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
• 1801 – First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America.




• 1849 – Astor Place Riot: A riot breaks out at the Astor Opera House in Manhattan, New York City over a dispute between actors Edwin Forrest and William Charles Macready, killing at least 25 and injuring over 120.







• 1865 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is captured by Union troops near Irwinville, Georgia.
• 1869 – The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah (not Promontory Point, Utah) with the golden spike.




• 1872 – Victoria Woodhull becomes the first woman nominated for President of the United States.





• 1908 – Mother’s Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
• 1924 – J. Edgar Hoover is appointed first Director of the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and remains so until his death in 1972.




• 1940 – World War II: Winston Churchill is appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain.





• 1946 – First successful launch of an American V-2 rocket at White Sands Proving Ground.





• 1954 – Bill Haley & His Comets release “Rock Around the Clock“, the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts.





• 1962 – Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
• 1975 – Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan.
• 1994 – Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president.




• 2013 – One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

BALTIMORE:

THE 2016 ELECTION:

LGBT NEWS:

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

GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

FREE THE WEED!!!

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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