Hello Headliners. Celebrating a birthday today is Devo’s Bob Mothersbaugh. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins.
• 1919 – The constitution of the Weimar Republic is adopted.
• 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.




• 1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.




• 1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.




• 1945 – Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing 1 and wounding 5.
• 1960 – Chad declares independence.
• 1965 – Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.




• 1968 – The last steam hauled train runs on British Rail




• 1972 – Vietnam War: the last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.
• 1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.




• 1984 – “We begin bombing in five minutes” – United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.




• 1999 – The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.

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

IN LGBT NEWS:

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