Hello Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to actor Bob Hoskins, who died in April. Among other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1774 – The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
• 1775 – King George III of Great Britain goes before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution.
• 1776 – Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.
• 1825 – The Erie Canal opens – passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
• 1861 – The Pony Express officially ceases operations.
• 1863 – The Football Association, the oldest football association in the world, is formed in London.
• 1881 – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.
• 1921 – The Chicago Theatre opens.
• 1936 – The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
• 1955 – Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
• 1964 – Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
• 1967 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran and then crowns his wife Farah Empress of Iran.
• 1984 – “Baby Fae” receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
• 1992 – The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
• 1999 – Britain’s House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain’s upper chamber of Parliament.
• 2001 – The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

LIFE IS LIKE EBOLA CHERRIES:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

IN LGBT NEWS:

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST RACIAL SOCIETY:

FREE THE WEED!!!

CYBER-BULLY WATCH:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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