Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Baldemar Garza Huerta, who made his fame under the name Freddy Fender. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1411 – King Charles VI granted a monopoly for the ripening of Roquefort cheese to the people of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon as they had been doing for centuries.




• 1783 – The Montgolfier brothers publicly demonstrate their montgolfière (hot air balloon).




• 1784 – Élisabeth Thible
  becomes the first woman to fly in an untethered hot air balloon. Her
  flight covers 4 kilometres in 45 minutes, and reached 1,500 metres
  altitude (estimated).




• 1792 – Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 1812 – Following Louisiana‘s admittance as a U.S. state, the Louisiana Territory is renamed the Missouri Territory.
• 1876 – An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.





• 1896 – Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.




• 1912 – Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
• 1917 – The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.




• 1919 – Women’s rights: The U.S. Congress approves the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees suffrage to women, and sends it to the U.S. states for ratification.
• 1939 – The Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
• 1989 – The Tiananmen Square protests are violently ended in Beijing by the People’s Liberation Army, with at least 241 dead.
• 1998 – Terry Nichols is sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE:

LGBT NEWS:

GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

FREE THE WEED!!!

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

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