Hiya, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Mickey Dolenz of The Monkees. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1618 – Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
• 1655 – John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England’s North American colonies where a crime was not committed.
• 1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes “African Slavery in America”, the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
• 1782 – Gnadenhütten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
• 1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
• 1910 – French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot’s license.
• 1911 – International Women’s Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women’s Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
• 1917 – The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
• 1936 – Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
• 1949 – Mildred Gillars (“Axis Sally”) is condemned to prison for treason.
• 1957 – Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
• 1957 – Ghana joins the United Nations.
• 1963 – The Ba’ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d’état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
• 1974 – Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
• 1978 – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
• 1983 – While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an “evil empire“.
• 2004 – A new constitution is signed by Iraq‘s Governing Council.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

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

GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION:

BULLY IS AS BULLY DOES:

FREE THE WEED!!!

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:

MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF FERGUSON COPS GONE WILD:

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

HACK ATTACKS:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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