Hello, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to Root Boy Slim. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 869 – A magnitude 8.6 Ms earthquake and subsequent tsunami strikes the area around Sendai in the northern part of Honshu, Japan.
• 1540 – King Henry VIII of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.
• 1776 – George Washington orders the Declaration of Independence to be read out loud to members of the Continental Army in New York, New York, for the first time.
• 1793 – The Act Against Slavery is passed in Upper Canada and the importation of slaves into Lower Canada is prohibited.
• 1811 – Explorer David Thompson posts a sign at the confluence of the Columbia and Snake Rivers (in modern Washington state, US), claiming the land for the United Kingdom.
• 1850 – U.S. President Zachary Taylor dies; Vice President Millard Fillmore, becomes President upon Taylor’s death.
• 1868 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified guaranteeing African Americans full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.
• 1896 – William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
• 1900 – Boxer Rebellion: The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
• 1903 – Future Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin is exiled to Siberia for three years.
• 1918 – Great Train Wreck of 1918: In Nashville, Tennessee, an inbound local train collides with an outbound express killing 101 and injuring 171 people, making it the deadliest rail accident in United States history.
• 1922 – Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds breaking the world swimming record and the ‘minute barrier’.
• 1937 – The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
• 1955 – The Russell–Einstein Manifesto is released by Bertrand Russell in London, England, United Kingdom.
• 1962 – The Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test is conducted by the United States.
• 1962 – Andy Warhol‘s Campbell’s Soup Cans exhibition opens at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.
• 1981 – Donkey Kong, a video game created by Nintendo, is released. The game marks the debut of Nintendo’s future mascot, Mario.
• 1986 – The Parliament of New Zealand passes the Homosexual Law Reform Act legalising homosexuality in New Zealand.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

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ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

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