Hey there, Headliners! After a short absence we are back. Today’s birthday belongs to Lena Horne. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1805 – The U.S. Congress organizes the Michigan Territory.




• 1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.




• 1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for “public use, resort and recreation”.




• 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.




• 1886 – The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.





• 1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity.




• 1906 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.




• 1908 – The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.






• 1921 – U.S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.





• 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler‘s violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.




• 1936 – Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia appeals for aid to the League of Nations against Italy’s invasion of his country.




• 1937 – The world’s first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London





• 1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
• 1963 – Ciaculli massacre: a car bomb, intended for Mafia boss Salvatore Greco, kills seven police officers and military personnel near Palermo.




• 1966 – The National Organization for Women, the United States’ largest feminist organization, is founded.
• 1971 – The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve.




• 1971 – Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, reducing the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.




• 1972 – The first leap second is added to the UTC time system.
• 1985 – Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days.




• 1986 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.





• 1997 – The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE:

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

LGBT NEWS:

SCOTUS WATCH:

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:

FREE THE WEED!!!

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

HACK ATTACKS:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

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