Hello, Headliners. Today’s birthday is celebrated by Stevland Hardaway Judkins, but you all know him as Stevie Wonder. Here are some of the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1780 – The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee.




• 1846 – Mexican–American War: The United States declares war on Mexico.
• 1861 – The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia.










• 1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.




• 1917 – Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
• 1939 – The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.




• 1954 – The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography.




• 1958 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon‘s car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators.




• 1958 – The trade mark Velcro is registered.
• 1960 – Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born.
• 1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.




• 1985 – Police release a bomb on MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents.
• 1994 – Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on Late Show with David Letterman.

Let’s get to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

LGBT NEWS:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

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TODDLES IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

ELISABETH HASSELBECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

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