Hey there, Headliners! Today’s birthday boy is fellow Detroiter, James Newell Osterberg, Jr., aka Iggy Pop and Iggy Stooge. Here are some of the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 753 BC – Romulus founds Rome (traditional date).
• 1509 – Henry VIII ascends the throne of England on the death of his father, Henry VII.
• 1836 – Texas Revolution: The Battle of San Jacinto: Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat troops under Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
• 1863 – Bahá’u’lláh, the founder of the Bahá’í Faith, declares his mission as “He whom God shall make manifest“.
• 1898 – Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.
• 1918 – World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, better known as “The Red Baron”, is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.
• 1934 – The “Surgeon’s Photograph”, the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
• 1962 – The Seattle World’s Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World’s Fair in the United States since World War II.
• 1963 – The Universal House of Justice of the Bahá’í Faith is elected for the first time.
• 1965 – The 1964–1965 New York World’s Fair opens for its second and final season.
• 1966 – Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
• 1982 – Baseball: Rollie Fingers of the Milwaukee Brewers becomes the first pitcher to record 300 saves.
• 1989 – Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
• 1992 – The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. They discovered two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257+12.

Now for today’s Headlines Du Jour:

THE 2016 ELECTION:

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

LGBT NEWS:

FREE THE WEED!!!

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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