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Today is Day 29 of 2024
1688
Swedish
philosopher and mystic Emanuel
Swedenborg born in Stockholm.
1728
The Beggar's
Opera by John Gay
premieres Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, London.
1737
Revolutionist, pamphleteer and corset maker Thomas Paine (Common Sense) born
in Thetford, England.
1820
King
George III of the United Kingdom and Ireland,living in seclusion at
Windsor Castle and permanently insane, dies at age 81.
He is
succeeded by his son
George IV.
1843
Twenty-Fifth
President of the US, William McKinley
born in Niles, Ohio.
1845
Edgar Allan Poe's
The Raven is
published in the New York Evening Mirror.
1860
Playwright
and short story writer Anton Chekhov (The Cherry
Orchard) born in Taganrog, Russia.
1861 
Kansas
is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
1880 
Film comedian W.C. Fields (William
Claude Dukenfield) born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1916
Paris is
bombed for the first time by German zeppelins during
World War I.
1923
Screenwriter
Paddy Chayefsky
(Network) born
in The Bronx, New York.
1927
Writer Edward Abbey (Desert Solitude)
born in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
A Prayer for the
Traveler
May your trails be crooked, lonesome, dangerous, leading to
the most amazing view. May your mountains
rise into & above the
clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral
valleys
tinkling with bells, past temples & castles & poets towers
into a dark primeval forest where tigers
belch & monkeys howl,
through miasmal & mysterious swamps & down into a desert of red rock,
blue mesas,
domes & pinnacles & grottos of endless stone, & down
again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm
where bars of sunlight
blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches,
where
storms come & go as lightning clangs upon the high crags,
where something more beautiful & more full of
wonder than your
deepest dreams waits for you beyond that next turning of the canyon
walls.
- by Edward Abbey
1939
Author Germaine Greer (The Female
Eunuch) born in Melbourne, Australia.
1964 
Stanley Kubrick's
Dr Strangelove or:
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb premieres.
IX Winter
Olympics open in Innsbruck, Austria.
1980
Rubik's Cube
makes its international debut at a toy fiar in London.
1995 
Super Bowl XXIX -
San Francisco 49er's beat the San Diego Chargers 49-28 in Miami.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"He who saves up for another day has no trust in God." ~ Chilean Proverb
