Hey there, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to keyboard player, Roy Bittan, of Bruce Springsteen‘s E Street Band. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1613 – The first English expedition from Massachusetts against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place.





• 1698 – Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.




• 1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.




• 1777 – Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery.





• 1822 – Thirty-five slaves are hanged in South Carolina, including Denmark Vesey, after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion.





• 1839 – Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad.
• 1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19.





• 1897 – Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.




• 1900 – The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.





• 1917 – The East St. Louis riots end.






• 1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
• 1962 – The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.




• 1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
• 2001 – The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.




• 2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.




• 2005 – The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8
  states and in South Africa, More than 1,000 musicians performed and are
  broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE:

DUMP TRUMP JUMPS:

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

LGBT NEWS:

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:

GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:

FREE THE WEED!!!

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

HACK ATTACKS:

OUR FUTURE ROBOT OVERLORDS:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

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