Hello again, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to saxophonist Ace Cannon. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1494 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Jamaica and claims it for Spain.








• 1821 – Emperor Napoleon I dies in exile on the island of Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean.








• 1862 – Cinco de Mayo: Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.











• 1877 – American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.





• 1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.








• 1920 – Authorities arrest Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti for alleged robbery and murder.




• 1925 – Scopes Trial: Serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.





• 1934 – The first Three Stooges short, Woman Haters, is released.
• 1941 – Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; the country commemorates the date as Liberation Day or Patriots’ Victory Day.




• 1961 – The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.




• 1977 – The first of The Nixon Interviews between David Frost and Richard Nixon are broadcast.





• 1981 – Bobby Sands dies in the Long Kesh prison hospital after 66 days of hunger-striking, aged 27.




• 1987 – Iran–Contra affair: Start of Congressional televised hearings in the United States of America
• 1994 – American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.

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