Hello Headline Hunters.Today’s birthday belongs to Cecil Bustamente Campbell, OD, better known as Ska legend Prince Buster. Here are some of the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1607 – One hundred English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first English colony in America. 
• 1626 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
• 1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.
• 1738 – John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.
• 1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message “What hath God wrought” (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
• 1856 – John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas. 
• 1921 – The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
• 1940 – Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico.
• 1943 – The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• 1958 – United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
• 1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for “disturbing the peace” after disembarking from their bus.
• 1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
• 1968 – FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
• 1994 – Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
• 1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
• 2000 – Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

LGBT NEWS:

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:

FREE THE WEED!!!

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

HACK ATTACKS:

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

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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