Howdy, Headliners!!! It’s the birthday of Cher, one of the few people on earth known by just one name. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1570 – Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.
• 1802 – By the Law of 20 May 1802, Napoleon Bonaparte reinstates slavery in the French colonies, revoking its abolition in the French Revolution
• 1861 – American Civil War: The state of Kentucky proclaims its neutrality, which will last until September 3 when Confederate forces enter the state. Meanwhile, the State of North Carolina secedes from the Union.
• 1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
• 1883 – Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
• 1891 – History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison‘s prototype kinetoscope.
• 1899 – The first traffic ticket
  in the US: New York City taxi driver Jacob German was arrested for
  speeding while driving 12 miles per hour on Lexington Street.
• 1916 – The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage).




• 1920 – Montreal, Quebec radio station XWA broadcasts the first regularly scheduled radio programming in North America.
• 1927 – At 07:52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world’s first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. He touched down at Le Bourget Field in Paris at 22:22 the next day.




• 1932 – Amelia Earhart takes off from Newfoundland to begin the world’s first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean by a female pilot, landing in Ireland the next day.




• 1940 – The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
• 1980 – In a referendum in Quebec, the population rejects by a 60% vote the proposal from its government to move towards independence from Canada.




• 1983 – First publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.
• 1985 – Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
• 1996 – Homosexuality rights: The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Romer v. Evans against a law that would have prevented any city, town or county in the state of Colorado from taking any legislative, executive, or judicial action to protect the rights of gays and lesbians.

Without any further delay, let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

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

IN LGBT-GOP NEWS:

IN CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS:

FREE THE WEED!!!

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

CNN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

ABC IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

JESSE WATTERS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

CARSON IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

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