Hello there, Headliners. Celebrating a birthday today is Jazz pianist and singer, Hazel Scott. She knew a few things about the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1509 – Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.





• 1770 – British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.





• 1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to draft a declaration of independence.





• 1805 – A fire consumes large portions of Detroit in the Michigan Territory.





• 1837 – The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between Yankees and Irish.
• 1901 – New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.
• 1919 – Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to win the Triple Crown.




• 1920 – During the U.S. Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S. Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus on their candidate for the U.S. presidential election, leading the Associated Press to first coin the political phrase “smoke-filled room“.




• 1935 – Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.
• 1955 – Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.
• 1962 – Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.




• 1963 – American Civil Rights Movement: Alabama Governor George Wallace stands at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school. Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National Guard troops, they are able to register.
• 1963 – John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964
  that would revolutionize American society. Proposing equal access to
  public facilities, end segregation in education and guarantee federal
  protection for voting rights.
• 1987 – Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first black Parliamentarians in Great Britain.
• 2001 – Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
• 2008 – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic official apology to Canada’s First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children are isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century.

Let’s get to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

THE BERGDAHL BEAT:

THE G IN GOP STANDS FOR GAH!

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

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

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

FREE THE WEED!!!

CLIVEN BUNDY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

GLENN BECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

MSNBC IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

ABLOW JOB IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

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