Hey there, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Johnny “Guitar” Watson. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1637 – Tulip mania collapses in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts.




• 1690 – The colony of Massachusetts issues the first paper money in the Americas.




• 1783 – American Revolutionary War: Spain recognizes United States independence.
• 1809 – The Territory of Illinois is created by the 10th United States Congress.
• 1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race.
• 1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.




• 1916 – Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
• 1947 – The lowest temperature in North America, −63.9 °C (−83.0 °F), is recorded in Snag, Yukon.
• 1959 – Deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
• 1966 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
• 1971 – New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption. Many believe the incident proves that NYPD officers tried to kill him.
• 1984 – John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history’s first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.




• 1984 – Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
• 1995 – Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:

IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

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

MORE OF THAT GOP OUTREACH:

IN LGBT NEWS:

GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

FREE THE WEED!!!

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

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