Hello Headliners!!! Today we’re celebrating the birthday of Eliot Ness, responsible for more than one Headline Du Jour of yesteryear.

• 1770 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding.




• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The war begins with an American victory in Concord during the battles of Lexington and Concord.




• 1861 – American Civil War: Baltimore riot of 1861: A pro-Secession mob in Baltimore, Maryland, attacks United States Army troops marching through the city.




• 1892 – Charles Duryea claims to have driven the first automobile in the United States, in Springfield, Massachusetts.




• 1927 – Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.




• 1928 – The 125th and final fascicle of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
• 1951 – General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
• 1956 – Actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco.
• 1971 – Vietnam War: Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin a five-day demonstration in Washington, D.C..







• 1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted life imprisonment) for conspiracy to commit the Tate/LaBianca murders.
• 1987 – The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show.
• 1993 – The 51-day siege of the Branch Davidian building outside Waco, Texas, USA, ends when a fire breaks out. Eighty-one people die.
• 1995 – Oklahoma City bombing: The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA, is bombed, killing 168.
• 2011 – Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba‘s central committee after 45 years of holding the title.




• 2013 – Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is killed in a shootout with police. His brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is captured while hiding in a boat inside a backyard in Watertown, Massachusetts.

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

TODAY IN DOMESTIC TERRORISM:

IN LGBT NEWS:

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

TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

BECAUSE: SMALLER GOVERNMENT:

IN CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS:

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

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