Hello again, Headliners! Celebrating a birthday today is Blues musician David “Honeyboy” Edwards, who joined the ancestors just 3 years ago. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1461 – Edward IV is crowned King of England.




• 1776 – The Battle of Sullivan’s Island ends with the first decisive American victory in the American Revolutionary War leading to the commemoration of Carolina Day.




• 1838 – Coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.
• 1865 – The Army of the Potomac is disbanded.
• 1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
• 1902 – The U.S. Congress passes the Spooner Act, authorizing President Theodore Roosevelt to acquire rights from Colombia for the Panama Canal.





• 1914 – Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo by Bosnia Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip, the casus belli of World War I.




• 1919 – The Treaty of Versailles is signed in Paris, bringing fighting to an end in between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
• 1926 – Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.
• 1964 – Malcolm X forms the Organization of Afro-American Unity.




• 1967 – Israel annexes East Jerusalem.




• 1969 – Stonewall Riots begin in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.
• 1987 – For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
• 1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; Seven people are killed, 660 injured.





• 1997 – Holyfield–Tyson II: Mike Tyson is disqualified in the 3rd round for biting a piece off Evander Holyfield‘s ear.

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

FREE THE WEED!!!

TODAY IN RELIGION:

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

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

GOP STANDS FOR “GOT OUR PERVERT”:

MORE GOP STUPIDITY:

SCHOOL DAZE:

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

CNBC IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

GLENN BECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

BRAIN BRIAN KILMEADE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

BEN CARSON IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

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