Howdy, Headliners. Today’s birthday boy is architect Frank Lloyd Wright. He made many Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 632 – Muhammad, Islamic prophet, dies in Medina and is succeeded by Abu Bakr who becomes the first caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.





• 1042 – Edward the Confessor becomes King of England, one of the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England.




• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Trois-Rivières – American attackers are driven back at Trois-Rivières, Quebec.







• 1789 – James Madison introduces twelve proposed amendments to the United States Constitution in the House of Representatives; by 1791, ten of them are ratified by the state legislatures and become the Bill of Rights; another is eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th Amendment.




• 1794 – Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution‘s new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Tennessee secedes from the Union.
• 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.




• 1912 – Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.





• 1948 – Milton Berle hosts the debut of Texaco Star Theater.




• 1949 – The celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.




• 1949 – George Orwell‘s Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
• 1953 – The United States Supreme Court rules that restaurants in Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
• 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy‘s funeral takes place at the Basilica of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City.




• 1972 – Vietnam War: The Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
• 1984 – Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
• 1992 – The first World Ocean Day is celebrated, coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2004 – The first Venus Transit in modern history takes place, the previous one being in 1882.

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