Hello, Headliners. Before you rush out and celebrate the birthday of Grover Cleveland — still the only president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms — here are some Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear for your enjoyment:

• 37 – The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius‘s will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
• 1673 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.
• 1766 – American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
• 1850 – American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
• 1874 – Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
• 1892 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada the Stanley Cup.
• 1922 – In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He serves only 2 years.
• 1938 – Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
• 1940 – World War II: Axis Powers – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
• 1942 – The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
• 1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
• 1968 – Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
• 1974 – Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
• 1992 – In a national referendum white South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour of ending the racist policy of Apartheid.

Now, let’s take a look at today’s Headlines Du Jour:

OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIVERSE HAS JUST CHANGED:

First glimpse of big bang
ripples from universe’s birth

Gravitational Waves from
Big Bang Detected

South Dakota GOP lawmaker: KKK business owners deserve right to ban blacks and gays

Paul Ryan’s race flap even worse than it looks
The notion that Ryan was dog-whistling to racists is actually
the best-case scenario. Here’s the scary alternative

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBNOXIOUS:

‘Code Words for Race’:
What’s Really Behind GOP’s Poverty and Welfare Obsession
When Paul Ryan decried the “culture”
of inner cities it followed a long
conservative tradition, a scholar explains.

Judge rules against creationist teacher who called Buddhist student’s faith ‘stupid’

Koch Brothers Group
Abandons Anti-Obamacare
Ads After Fact-Checkers
Prove Them False

The environmental
case for legalizing pot

Miami’s First Marijuana
School Could Open in April

A Head Start for Florida
Cannabis Entrepreneurs

There is no meritocracy: It’s just the 1 percent, and the game is rigged

Fox News Praises Gay
Ban at New York’s St.
Patrick’s Day Parade
Hosts call Mayor Bill deBlasio a ‘religious bigot’ for not marching in today’s parade.

Detroit area water authority talks hit cutoff

Planet X myth debunked

Star next door may host a ‘superhabitable’ world

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