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Today is Day 9 of 2024
1788 
Connecticut becomes
the fifth state of the US.
1793
Jean-Pierre
Blanchard is the first person to go aloft in a balloon in the United
States.
He launched his balloon from a prison yard in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania and landed in New Jersey.
President George
Washington, and the future presidents John Adams, Thomas
Jefferson, James
Madison, and James Monroe were
witnesses to the feat.
1839
The French
Academy of Sciences announces the development of the Daguerreotype
photography process.
Named for Louis Daguerre
an artist and photographer who was instrumental in its
development
1861
Mississippi becomes
the second state to secede from the Union.
1901
Cartoonist
Chic Young (Blondie)
born in Chicago.
1908
Philosopher
and novelist Simone de
Beauvoir born in Paris.
1913 
Thirty-seventh President of the US, Richard Nixon born
in Yorba Linda, California.
1923
Juan de la
Cierva's autogyro
makes it's first successful flight.
1925
Character
actor Lee Van
Cleef (The
Good, The Bad and The Ugly) born in Somerville, New Jersey.
1941
Folksinger
Joan Baez born in
Staten Island, New York.
1943
Singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer Scott
Walker (The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)) born in Hamilton,
Ohio.
The Guardian once called
Walker's baroque pop stylings as Andy Williams
reinventing himself as Stockhausen
.
1944
Guitar great
Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) born in
London.
1972
Passenger
liner RMS
Queen Elizabeth is destroyed by fire in Hong Kong harbour.
1977 
Super Bowl XI -
Raiders beat the Vikings 32-14 in Pasadena.
2007
Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the
first iPhone.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
He complains wrongfully at the sea that suffer shipwreck twice. ~ French Proverb
