Howdy, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to Pete Townshend, of The Who. Among the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1535 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sets sail on his second voyage to North America with three ships, 110 men, and Chief Donnacona‘s two sons (whom Cartier had kidnapped during his first voyage).




• 1536 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, is beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.





• 1568 – Queen Elizabeth I of England orders the arrest of Mary, Queen of Scots.







• 1743 – Jean-Pierre Christin developed the centigrade temperature scale.
• 1780 – New England’s Dark Day: A combination of thick smoke and heavy cloud cover causes complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the New England area of the United States at 10:30 A.M.






• 1845 – Captain Sir John Franklin and his ill-fated Arctic expedition depart from Greenhithe, England.




• 1848 – Mexican–American War: Mexico ratifies the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo thus ending the war and ceding California, Nevada, Utah and parts of four other modern-day U.S. states to the United States for US$15 million.




• 1897 – Oscar Wilde is released from Reading Gaol.




• 1911 – Parks Canada, the world’s first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.




• 1950 – A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city.




• 1950 – Egypt announces that the Suez Canal is closed to Israeli ships and commerce.
• 1962 – A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe‘s rendition of “Happy Birthday“.




• 1963 – The New York Post Sunday Magazine publishes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail.




• 1971 – Mars probe program: Mars 2 is launched by the Soviet Union.
• 1986 – The Firearm Owners Protection Act is signed into law by U.S. President Ronald Reagan.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

THE 2016 ELECTION:

GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:

FREE THE WEED!!!

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

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

HACK ATTACKS:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF CORPS GONE WILD:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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