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Today is Day 310 of 2024
1605
A plot to blow up English Parliament is detected
and its leader, Guy
Fawkes, is captured.
1718
Tristram Shandy,
Gentleman, brought forth into this scurvy and disastrous world of ours
according to Laurence Sterne.
1850
Poet and mystic Ella Wheeler
Wilcox (Poems of Passion) born in Johnstown, Wisconsin.
1885
Historian Will Durant (The Story
of Civilization) born in North Adams, Massachusetts.
1905
Actor Joel McCrea (Ride the High
Country) born in South Pasadena, California.
1912
King of the Cowboys, Roy Rogers born in
Cincinnati, Ohio.
1913
Actress Vivien Leigh (Gone with
the Wind) born in Darjeeling, India.
1925
Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the
first master spy of the 20th century, is executed by Soviet the secret
police.
1935
The board game Monopoly is
introduced by Parker Brothers Company.
1941
Singer Art Garfunkel (Simon and
Garfunkel) born in Forest Hills, New York.
1943
Playwright Sam Shepard born in
Fort Sheridan, Illinois.
1946
Singer sowgwriter Gram Parsons (The
Flying Burrito Brothers) born in Winter Haven, Florida.
1979
Iranian clerictator Ayatollah
Khomeini pronounces the US is The Great
Satan.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"Every man is the smith of his own fortune." ~ Persian Proverb
