Hello, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to Marni Nixon, the most famous singer you never heard of. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1632 – Galileo‘s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published.




• 1819 – By the Adams–Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars.
• 1856 – The United States Republican Party opens its first national meeting in Pittsburgh.




• 1862 – Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia. He was previously inaugurated as a provisional president on February 18, 1861.







• 1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores.
• 1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White House.
• 1948 – Communist revolution in Czechoslovakia.
• 1958 – Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.




• 1959 – Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
• 1973 – Cold War: Following President Richard Nixon‘s visit to the People’s Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices.
• 1974 – Samuel Byck tries and fails to assassinate U.S. President Richard Nixon.
• 1994 – Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
• 1997 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly has been successfully cloned.
• 2006 – At least six men stage Britain’s biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

FOX’S FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

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

FREE THE WEED!!!

IN LGBT NEWS:

IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF CORPORATIONS GONE WILD:

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

HACK ATTACKS:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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