Hello, Headliners!!! Today’s birthday boy is Orson Welles, who never bettered his first film, Citizen Kane. Here are some of the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1835 – James Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald.
• 1861 – American Civil War: Arkansas secedes from the Union and Richmond, Virginia is declared the new capital of the Confederate States of America.
• 1877 – Chief Crazy Horse of the Oglala Sioux surrenders to United States troops in Nebraska.
• 1882 – The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
• 1889 – The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
• 1935 – New Deal: Executive Order 7034 creates the Works Progress Administration.
• 1937 – Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
• 1940 – John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
• 1941 – At California‘s March Field, Bob Hope performs his first USO show.
• 1949 – EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, runs its first operation.
• 1954 – Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
• 1983 – The Hitler Diaries are revealed as a hoax after examination by experts.
• 1996 – The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
• 2013 – Three women missing for more than a decade are found alive in the U.S. city of Cleveland, Ohio, while a 52-year-old man, Ariel Castro, is taken into custody.

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

$COTU$ WATCH:

GOP STANDS FOR GUNS OVER PEOPLE:

GOP STANDS FOR GESTAPO OR PERISH:

FREE THE WEED!!!

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

RUPERT MURDOCH IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

NEWS CORP. IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

FOX IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

FUCKER CARLSON IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

BOB BECKEL IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

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