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Today is Day 27 of 2024
1302
Poet Dante Alighieri
(Divine Comedy)
is condemned to perpetual exile from Florence.
1596
English
captain and explorer Francis Drake dies
of dysentery off the coast of Portobelo, Pananma.
Before dying, he
asked to be dressed in his full armour and to be buried at sea in a lead
coffin.
1722 
Daniel Defoe
publishes Moll
Flanders: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders,
etc.
Who was born at Newgate, and during a Life of continued Variety
for Threescore Years, besides her Childhood, was Twelve Year a
Whore,
Five times a Wife (whereof once to her own Brother), Twelve
Year a Thief,
Eight Year a Transported Felon in Virginia, at last
grew rich, liv'd Honest, and died a Penitent.
Written from her own
Memorandums.
1756
Composer Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart born in Salzburg, Austria.
1832
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Writer Lewis Carroll (
Alice in Wonderland) born in Daresbury, England.
1880
Inventor Thomas Edison
patents the incandescent lamp.
1888
The National
Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
1905 
Character actor Howard McNear born
in Los Angeles, California.
McNear is best remembered as barber Floyd Lawson on The Andy
Griffith Show.
1918
Blues
singer-songwriter and guitarist Elmore James born in
Richland, Mississippi.
1930
Blues singer
Bobby Bland born in
Rosemark, Tennessee.
1947
Illustrator
and album cover designer
Cal Schenkel (Uncle Meat) born in
Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.
1948
Russian
dancer and choreographer Mikhail
Baryshnikov born in Riga, Lativa.
1957
Illustrator,
screenwriter, producer, and director Frank Miller
(Sin City) born in
Olney, Maryland.
1967 
Three astronauts die at Cape Canaveral,
Florida when a flash fire engulfs their Apollo I space capsule
during a training session.
1973
The Paris Peace
Accords officially end the Vietnam War.
1984
Michael Jackson's
hair burst into flames while filming a Pepsi commercial.
1991 
Super Bowl XXV -
New York Giants beat the Buffalo Bills 20-19 in Tampa, Florida.
2003
The first
selections for the National
Recording Registry are announced by the Library of
Congress.
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