Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Disco Diva Vickie Sue Robinson. Other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1578 – King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (New Bridge), the oldest bridge of Paris, France.




• 1669 – Citing poor eyesight, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary.
• 1790 – The United States enacts its first copyright statute, the Copyright Act of 1790.
• 1859 – The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.




• 1879 – Gilmores Garden in New York, New York, is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.





• 1889 – Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.





• 1909 – The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, convenes for the first time.




• 1910 – The creation of the Union of South Africa.




• 1921 – Tulsa race riot: civil unrest in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The official death toll is 39, but recent investigations suggest the actual toll may be much higher.





• 1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.




• 1929 – The first talking Mickey Mouse cartoon, “The Karnival Kid“, is released.
• 1961 – The Union of South Africa becomes the Republic of South Africa.
• 1962 – Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
• 1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System completed.
• 2005 – Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was Deep Throat.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

THE 2016 ELECTION:

LGBT NEWS:

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

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:

FREE THE WEED!!!

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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