Hello Headliners. Let’s all sing HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Bobby Curtola, one of Canada’s first teen idols. He was a Headline Du Jour of yesteryear, but is still going strong. Also on this day:

• 1397 – Geoffrey Chaucer tells the Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of Richard II. Chaucer scholars have also identified this date (in 1387) as the start of the book’s pilgrimage to Canterbury.





• 1521 – Trial of Martin Luther over his teachings begins during the assembly of the Diet of Worms. Initially intimidated, he asks for time to reflect before answering and is given a stay of one day.




• 1897 – The Aurora, Texas UFO incident
• 1907 – The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
• 1937 – Daffy Duck‘s first appearance, in Porky’s Duck Hunt.




• 1949 – At midnight 26 Irish counties officially leave the British Commonwealth. A 21-gun salute on O’Connell Bridge, Dublin, ushers in the Republic of Ireland.
• 1961 – Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
• 1964 – Ford Mustang is introduced to the North American market.




• 1969 – Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
• 1970 – Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
• 1982 – Patriation of the Canadian constitution in Ottawa by Proclamation of Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada.
• 1986 – The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years’ War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.
• 2013 – An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.

Without any further delay, let’s get to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

$COTU$ WATCH:

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBSOLETE:

WHEN ORAL SEX IS OUTLAWED, ONLY OUTLAWS WILL HAVE ORAL SEX:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

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

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

MODERN LIFE IS COMPLICATED:

TODAY IN CAPITALISM:

FREE THE WEED!!!

FOX NATION IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

TODDLES IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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