Hello Headliners! Today’s birthday boy is singer and fiddler Charlie Daniels. Other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear include:

• 1492 – Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba on his first voyage to the New World. [1]
• 1538 – The first university in the New World (in present-day Dominican Republic), the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.
• 1636 – A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.
• 1886 – In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
• 1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson‘s veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.
• 1929 – Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
• 1942 – The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.




• 1948 – Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.
• 1962 – End of Cuban missile crisis: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
• 1965 – Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed.
• 2005 – Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney‘s chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

LIFE IS LIKE EBOLA CHERRIES:

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

TODAY IN RELIGION ~or~ JOHN LENNON WAS RIGHT:

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

On this day in 1886, in New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty.

FREE THE WEED!!!

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

IN INNER SPACE:

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