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Today is Day 6 of 2024
Epiphany, or
Twelfth Day
Commemorates the visit of the Magi, or Three Wise
Men, to the baby Jesus in the stable in Bethlehem.
James Joyce's story
The
Dead takes place during a party celebrating the Feast of the
Epiphany.
For Joyce, the word epiphany, meant the revelation of the
whatness of a thing, the moment when the soul of the commonest object
[...] seems to us radiant.
1066
Harold II is
crowned King of England following the death of Edward the
Confessor.
1367
Richard II
of England is born in Bordeaux, Duchy of Aquitaine.
1412
French military heroine Joan of Arc is born
in Domremy, France.
1540
King Henry
VIII of England marries Anne of Cleves,
his fourth wife.
1745
Jacques-Etienne
Montgolfier, who, along with his older brother Joseph-Michel is the
co-inventor of the hot air balloon, is born in Ardèche, France.
1799
Pioneer, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author,
cartographer, and explorer Jedediah Smith is
born in Jericho, Tioga County, New York.
1832
Painter and sculptor Gustave
Doré is born in Strasbourg, France.
1838
Samuel F.B. Morse demonstrates the telegraph.
1854
Sherlock Holmes
born on the farmstead of Mycroft, near Sigerside, in the North Riding of
Yorkshire, England.
1878 
American poet, historian, novelist & folklorist Carl Sandburg is
born in Galesburg, Illinois.
1880
Tom
Mix, silent film cowboy actor, is born in Mix Run,
Pennsylvania,
1883
Poet Kahlil Gibran (The Prophet)
is born in Bisharri, Lebanon.
1912
New Mexico is
admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
1915
British-American mystic Alan Watts is born in
Chiselhurst, England.
1920
Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Early Wynn is born in
Hartford, Alabama.
1928
Model and actress Capucine (The
Pink Panther) born in Saint-Raphaël, Var, France.
1931
Writer E. L. Doctorow (Ragtime) is born
in New York City.
1946
Singer-songwriter Syd Barrett (Pink Floyd) is born in
Cambridge, England.
1947
Singer-songwriter Sandy Denny (Fairport
Convention) is born in London, England.
1994
Ice skater Nancy Kerrigan is
attacked by Tonya
Harding's bodyguard, who clubbed her in the right knee with metal
baton after a practice session.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
Nights of pleasure are short. ~ Lebanese Proverb
