Howdy, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to Roy Orbison. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear include:

• 1016 – Edmund Ironside succeeds his father Æthelred the Unready as king of England.
• 1348 – The founding of the Order of the Garter by King Edward III is announced on St. George’s Day.
• 1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston.
• 1661 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.
• 1910 – American President Theodore Roosevelt makes his “The Man in the Arena” speech.
• 1914 – First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park in Chicago.
• 1940 – The Rhythm Club fire at a dance hall in Natchez, Mississippi, kills 198 people.
• 1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler‘s designated successor Hermann Göring sends him a telegram asking permission to take leadership of the Third Reich, which causes Hitler to replace him with Joseph Goebbels and Karl Dönitz.
• 1955 – The Canadian Labour Congress is formed by the merger of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada and the Canadian Congress of Labour.
• 1967 – Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1) a manned spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov is launched into orbit.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
• 1985 – Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
• 2005 – First YouTube video uploaded, titled “Me at the zoo”.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

THE 2016 ELECTION:

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

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:

IN INNER SPACE:

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