Hello Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Kathryn Dawn Lang, better known as k.d. lang. Among today’s other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1675 – Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip’s War.




• 1889 – North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.




• 1895 – The first gasoline-powered race in the United States; first prize is $2,000.




• 1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the “establishment in Palestine
  of a national home for the Jewish people” with the clear understanding
  “that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious
  rights of existing non-Jewish communities”.




• 1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920.




• 1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.




• 1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.




• 1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.





• 1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.




• 1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd., the Lady Chatterley’s Lover case.





• 1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and “The Wise Men” conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.




• 1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.




• 1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.




• 1988 – The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.




• 2000 – The first resident crew to the ISS docked with their Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

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

FREE THE WEED!!!

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

FOX “NEW” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN OUTER SPACE:

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