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Today is Day 4 of 2024
On the eleventh day of Christmas, my true love
gave to me
Eleven pipers piping,
Ten lords a-leaping,
Nine
ladies dancing,
Eight maids a-milking,
Seven swans
a-swimming,
Six geese a-laying,
Five golden rings.
Four colly
birds,
Three French hens,
Two turtle doves
And a
partridge in a pear tree.
1643
Mathematician Sir
Isaac Newton born in Woolsthorpe, England.
1785
German
folklorist Jakob
Grimm, one half of the Brothers Grimm,
born in Hanau, Germany.
1809
French
inventor of the alphabet for the blind, Louis Braille born
in Coupvray, near Paris.
1877
Painter and
poet Marsden
Hartley born in Lewiston, Maine.
1896 
Utah
becomes the the 45th U.S. state.
1900
Caribbean
ornithologist James
Bond born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
His name was used by Ian Fleming for the
the fictional spy of the same name.
1903
Topsy the
elephant is electrocuted by Thomas Edison in a
demonstration of the danger of AC technology.
1905
Character
actor Sterling
Holloway (Winnie
the Pooh) born in Cedartown, Georgia.
1942
Jazz
guitarist Mahavishnu
John McLaughlin born in Doncaster, Yorkshire England.
Blues singer-songwriter and guitarist Precious Bryant born in Talbot County, Georgia.
1960 
French
existentialist novelist Albert Camus killed
in an auto accident near Sens, France.
1965
Poet T. S. Eliot passes
away at age 76 at his home in Kensington in London.
The inscription
on his grave is from the Poets poem Little
Gidding and reads:
the communication
of the dead is
tongued with fire beyond
the language of the living.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
The talented hawk hides its claws. ~ Japanese Proverb
