Hello, Headliners! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Robert Segarini, Canadian Rock and Roll star. Here’s the Headlines Du Jour of Yesteryear™:

• 1565 – Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sights land near St. Augustine, Florida and founds the oldest continuously occupied European-established city in the continental United States.




• 1609 – Henry Hudson discovers Delaware Bay.




• 1789 – William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.







• 1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 receives Royal Assent, abolishing slavery through most the British Empire.




• 1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine is published.










• 1879 – Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.




• 1898 – Caleb Bradham invents the carbonated soft drink that will later be called “Pepsi-Cola“.




• 1917 – Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.




• 1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.




• 1953 – Nippon Television broadcasts Japan‘s first television show, including its first TV advertisement.




• 1955 – Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.




• 1957 – U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.




• 1963 – March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech







• 1964 – The Philadelphia race riot begins.




• 1968 – Riots in Chicago, Illinois, during the Democratic National Convention.




• 1990 – Iraq declares Kuwait to be its newest province.




• 1991 – Collapse of the Soviet Union – Mikhail Gorbachev resigns as General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.




• 1996 – Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales divorce.

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