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Today is Day 195 of 2024
1527
Adviser to Queen Elizabeth I and astronomer, astrologer, occult philosopher John Dee born in london.
1793 
French Revolutionary figure Jean-Paul Marat is murdered in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday who was delivering a list of those to be guillotined.
Poet John Clare born in Helpston, England.
1798
William Wordsworth, on a walking tour through the Wye Valley, visited the ruins of Tintern Abbey and a few miles farther composed a poem about them called Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey.
1865
P. T. Barnum’s American Museum is destroyed by fire in New York City.
1923 
The Hollywood Sign is dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, California.
Originally the sign said 'Hollywoodland', the last four letters of the sign were removed in 1949.
1942
Guitarist and singer Roger McGuinn (Byrds) born in Chicago.
1954
Artist Frida Kahlo passes away in Coyoacán, Mexico City.
Square One Ranch
Photo of the Day
Taken on this day in 2021 at Square One Ranch.
Click on photo for larger preview of palm tree art
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
The Three Great Mysteries: Air to a bird, water to a fish, mankind to himself ~ Hindu Proverb
