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Today is Day 8 of 2024
1815
Andrew Jackson wins the most decisive battle of the War of 1812 - the Battle of New
Orleans.
1824
Novelist Wilkie Collins (The Moonstone) born
in London.
1904
Songwriter
and blues guitarist Tampa
Red born in Smithville, Georgia.
1909
Teacher Evelyn Wood,
who founded a speed reading course called Reading Dynamics, born in
Logan, Utah.
1911
Ecdysiast & burlesque
queen Gypsy Rose
Lee born in Seattle, Washington.
1926
Actor,
comedian, and kids show host Soupy Sales born in
Franklinton, North Carolina.
1933
Radio and
television commentator Charles Osgood (CBS Sunday
Morning) born in New York.
1935
Elvis born in
Tupelo, Mississippi.
1937
Singer Shirley Bassey (Goldfinger) born
Tiger Bay, Wales.
1941
English
comedian Graham
Chapman (Monty
Python) born in Leicester, England.
1947
Rocker David Bowie born in
Brixton, England.
1963
Leonardo da
Vinci's Mona
Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National
Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
1989
Beginning of Japanese Heisei period.
This is the first day after the death of the Emperor Hirohito who is
posthumous renamed Emperor Showa which was the name of the period in
which he ruled.
2011
Arizona
Representative Gabrielle
Giffords is the target of an assassination attempt by Jared Lee
Loughner.
Six people are killed and 13 are wounded, including
Giffords.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
All the buzzards will come to the mule's funeral. ~ Southern Proverb
