Hey there, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Roger Keith “Syd” Barrett, founding member of Pink Floyd. Here are some of the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1492 – The Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella enter Granada, completing the Reconquista.




• 1540 – King Henry VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves.
• 1781 – In the Battle of Jersey, the British defeat the last attempt by France to invade Jersey.
• 1838 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).





• 1853 – President-elect of the United States Franklin Pierce and his family are involved in a train wreck near Andover, Massachusetts. Pierce’s 11-year-old son Benjamin is killed in the crash.
• 1912 – New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.




• 1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
• 1929 – Mother Teresa arrives in Calcutta, India to begin her work among India’s poorest and sick people.
• 1931 – Thomas Edison submits his last patent application.
• 1947 – Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to schedule a flight around the world.
• 1974 – In response to the 1973 oil crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly four months early in the United States.
• 1994 – Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the knee at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Detroit.
• 2000 – Celia, the last Pyrenean ibex was found dead after a tree had landed on her.




• 2005 – American Civil Rights Movement: Edgar Ray Killen is arrested as a suspect in the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

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

MORE OF THAT GOP OUTREACH:

IN LGBT NEWS:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

HACK ATTACKS:

MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:

FOX NEWS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

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