Hey there, Headliners! Celebrating a birthday today is singer Eddy Grant, also creator of the musical genre Ringbang. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus‘s book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the Catholic Church




• 1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.




• 1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later.
• 1836 – Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
• 1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
• 1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a “bank holiday“, closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.




• 1933 – Adolf Hitler‘s Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
• 1940 – Six high-ranking members of Soviet politburo, including General Secretary Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.
• 1946 – Winston Churchill coins the phrase “Iron Curtain” in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
• 1960 – Cuban photographer Alberto Korda takes his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
• 1970 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.




• 1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
• 1979 – America’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

FREE THE WEED!!!

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

WAR IS HELL:

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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