Hello Headliners!!! It’s the 70th day of the year and the birthday of Shemp Howard. Among the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear includes:

• 1702 – The Daily Courant, England‘s first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
• 1708 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
• 1824 – The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
• 1848 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
• 1861 – American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
• 1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
• 1918 – The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
• 1946 – Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.
• 2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

Had enough? Then let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

Lesbian couple murdered and left near dumpster in Texas

The quickly shifting language of the transgender community
He, she, ze, and how to navigate a new landscape

Right-Wing Zealots Are Already Freaking Out About The Return Of Cosmos!

Race, the War on Drugs
and Mass Incarceration

GOP Lawmaker Accused of
Racism for Tweet About the NBA

Pennsylvania trooper fatally shoots pregnant wife in the head while cleaning his gun

Use of Public Transit in U.S. Reaches
Highest Level Since 1956, Advocates Report

Coconut Grove’s Blanche
Park to close through
summer to remove toxic soil

From the Not Now Silly archives:
A Century of Coconut Grove Racism ► Soilgate Is Trolleygate Writ Large

It Takes Nine Days to
Spot a Stoned Driver

Detroit Doesn’t Need Hipsters To Survive, It Needs Black People

Graffiti Tagger Hits One Of
The New Shinola Clocks
That Were Gifts To Detroit

Most Corrupt Town in America in
Danger of Being ‘Wiped Off the Map’

Fox & Friends First Misspells ‘Spelling Bee’

Honest Ed’s latest bargain: those zany signs

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