Hello again, Headliners. Today’s birthday boy is The Man In Black, Johnny Cash. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
• 1909 – Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
• 1917 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
• 1919 – President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of the U.S. Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a United States National Park – the Grand Canyon National Park.
• 1929 – President Calvin Coolidge signs an Executive Order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.
• 1935 – Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
• 1952 – Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
• 1966 – Apollo program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket
• 1971 – U.N. Secretary General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
• 1980 – Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.
• 1987 – Iran–Contra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.
• 1993 – World Trade Center bombing: In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

FREE THE WEED!!!

IN LGBT NEWS:

IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

WAR IS HELL:

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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