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Today is Day 88 of 2024
1483 
Italian painter Raphael born in Urbino,
Duchy of Urbino.
1584
Russian tsar
Ivan the
Terrible dies of a stroke while playing chess in
Moscow.
1836
German-American brewer and founder of the Pabst Brewing Company, Frederick Pabst
born in Nikolausrieth, Germany.
1868
Russian
novelist Maxim
Gorky) born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
1890 
American bandleader and composer Paul Whiteman born
in Denver, Colorado.
1909
Novelist Nelson Algren (A Walk
on the Wild Side) born in Detroit, Michigan.
1910
Henri Fabre becomes
the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking
off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
1936
Peruvian-
Spanish journalist and author, Mario Vargas
Llosa born in Arequipa, Peru.
1941
Author Virginia Woolf ends
her life bt filling her overcoat with stones and walkinig into the River
Ouse.
1979
Three Mile
Island nuclear accident occurs in Harrisburg Pa.
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Proverb:
"The miserable are very talkative." ~ Hindu Proverb
