Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs Grandfather of Rhythm and Blues, Johnny Otis. Other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear include:

• 1065 – Westminster Abbey is consecrated.
• 1612 – Galileo Galilei becomes the first astronomer to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
• 1795 – Construction of Yonge Street, formerly recognized as the longest street in the world, begins in York, Upper Canada (present-day Toronto).
• 1832 – John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.




• 1835 – Osceola leads his Seminole warriors in Florida into the Second Seminole War against the United States Army.
• 1836 – Spain recognizes the independence of Mexico.




• 1846 – Iowa is admitted as the 29th U.S. state.




• 1867 – United States claims Midway Atoll, the first territory annexed outside Continental limits.
• 1895 – Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
• 1912 – The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.




• 1918 – Constance Markievicz, while detained in Holloway prison, became the first woman to be elected MP to the British House of Commons.
• 1944 – Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score eight points in one game of NHL ice hockey.
• 1958 – “Greatest Game Ever Played”: Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York’s Yankee Stadium.
• 1973 – The Endangered Species Act is passed in the United States.
• 2000 – U.S. retail giant Montgomery Ward announces it is going out of business after 128 years.

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