Heya, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Jazz artist Miles Davis. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1538 – Geneva expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives in exile in Strasbourg for the next three years.
• 1647 – Alse Young, hanged in Hartford, Connecticut, becomes the first person executed as a witch in the British American colonies. 
• 1783 – A Great Jubilee Day held at North Stratford, Connecticut, celebrated end of fighting in American Revolution. 
• 1828 – Feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered wandering the streets of Nuremberg.




• 1830 – The Indian Removal Act is passed by the U.S. Congress; it is signed into law by President Andrew Jackson two days later. 
• 1857 – Dred Scott is emancipated by the Blow family, his original owners. 





• 1897 – Dracula, a novel by the Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
• 1938 – In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
• 1966 – British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.




• 1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first manned moon landing.
• 1972 – The United States and the Soviet Union sign the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
• 1998 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
• 2004 – United States Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

LGBT NEWS:

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

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:

FREE THE WEED!!!

OUR ROBOT OVERLORDS:

HACK ATTACKS:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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