Hey there, Headliners! Celebrating a birthday today is Melissa Manchester. Among the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1493 – While on board the Niña, Christopher Columbus writes an open letter (widely distributed upon his return to Portugal) describing his discoveries and the unexpected items he came across in the New World.
• 1879 – Women’s rights: American President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.





• 1898 – The battleship USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.




• 1925 – 1925 serum run to Nome: The serum arrives in Nome, Alaska, with Balto being the lead dog of the last team.




• 1946 – ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
• 1954 – Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
• 1965 – A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.
• 1972 – Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
• 1989 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: The Soviet Union officially announces that all of its troops have left Afghanistan.
• 2001 – First draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.




• 2003 – Protests against the Iraq war
  take place in over 600 cities worldwide. It is estimated that between 8
  million to 30 million people participate, making this the largest peace
  demonstration in history.




• 2013 – A meteor explodes
  over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows
  and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

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

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:

AN EXCITING EPISODE OF CORPORATIONS GONE WILD:

FREE THE WEED!!!

GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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