Hello, Headliners. Today’s birthday boy is Canadian Jazz great Maynard Ferguson. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour from yesteryear:

• 1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw.




• 1675 – King Charles II of England orders the construction of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
• 1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
• 1871 – The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.




• 1886 – Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, Illinois, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.




• 1932 – In Atlanta, Georgia, mobster Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence for tax evasion.
• 1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.




• 1959 – The 1st Grammy Awards are held.




• 1961 – American civil rights movement: The “Freedom Riders” begin a bus trip through the South.




• 1970 – Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: the Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University
  after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire
  killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students
  were protesting the United States’ invasion of Cambodia.
• 1979 – Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 1989 – Iran-Contra Affair: Former White House aide Oliver North is convicted of three crimes and acquitted of nine other charges. The convictions, however, are later overturned on appeal.
• 1994 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO leader Yasser Arafat sign a peace accord regarding Palestinian autonomy granting self-rule in the Gaza Strip and Jericho.

Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

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GOP STANDS FOR GET OUT, PERVERTS!!!

TODAY IN RELIGION:

IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

TODAY IN HEALTHCARE:

TAKING GOOD CARE OF EARTH:

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

FREE THE WEED!!!

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