Hiya, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to Python & Rutle, Eric Idle. Here are some of the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1461 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton – Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England.
• 1638 – Swedish colonists establish the first European settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden.
• 1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.




• 1867 – Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.




• 1871 – The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.










• 1886 – Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
• 1936 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany’s illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters.
• 1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
• 1961 – The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
• 1971 – My Lai Massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.




• 1971 – A Los Angeles jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers.




• 1973 – Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
• 1974 – NASA‘s Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.
• 1982 – The Canada Act 1982 receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
• 1993 – Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province.




• 1999 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
• 2004 – The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.
• 2014 – The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales are performed.

Today’s yesteryear segment was larger than usual, as is today’s Headlines Du Jour. So, let’s get to it…finally:

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