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Today is Day 307 of 2024
1470
King Edward V of
England born in Westminster, Middlesex, England.
1734
American pioneer Daniel Boone born
near Reading, Pennsylvania.
1755
French Queen Marie Antoinette
born in Austria.
1795
Eleventh President of the US James Polk born in
Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
1799
Ornithologist, entomologist, photographer, and
scientific illustrator Titian Peale born
in Philosophical Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1865
Twenty-ninth President of the US, Warren G
Harding born in Marion, Ohio.
1889
North Dakota
admitted as the 39th U.S. states.
Sorth Dakota
admitted as the 40th U.S. states.
1913
Actor Burt Lancaster (Elmer Gantry)
born in New York.
1920
Radio station KDKA of Pittsburgh
broadcasts the results for the 1920 Presidential race and becomes the
first commercial radio station in the United States.
1927
Comic book illustrator Steve Ditko (Spiderman) born in
Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
1938
Columnist and politician Pat Buchanan born
in Washington, D.C.
1947
In California, aviator Howard Hughes
performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose
the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
1959
Contestant Charles Van
Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given the
answers in advance on the television game show Twenty
One.
1963
South
Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem
assassinated in Saigon.
2004
Dutch film director Theo
van Gogh is murdered in an Amsterdam street by a Muslim
extremist.
Square One
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Photo of the Day
View from Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton near San Jose, California. Taken 20191102.
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larger view.
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This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"Summer is the season of inferior sledding." ~ Eskimo Proverb
