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Today is Day 10 of 2024
49
BC
Julius
Caesar crosses the Rubicon.
This will
mark the beginning of the Great Roman Civil
War.
1843
Outlaw and
shoe salesman Frank
James born in Clay County, Missouri.
Frank was the older
brother of outlaw Jesse James and a
member of the James - Younger Gang.
1861
Florida seceded from the
Union.
1887
Poet Robinson Jeffers
born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1904
Dancer and
actor Ray Bolger
(the Scarecrow
in the Wizard
of Oz) born in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
1927 
Fritz Lang's film Metropolis
premiers.
1928
Poet Philip
Levine born in Detroit, Michigan.
He was the Poet
Laureate of the United States for 2011–2012.
1929
Belgian
cartoonist Georges
Remi's comic series The
Adventures of Tintin is first published in Belgium.
RCA announces a new 7-inch, 45 rpm phonograph record.
1936
Pornography
publisher Al
Goldstein (Screw) born in
New York City.
Singer-songwriter Jim Croce born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1948
Musician Donald Fagen (Steely Dan) born in
Passaic, New Jersey.
1949
Porn star Linda Lovelace (Deep Throat)
born in New York.
2004
Monologist Spalding
Gray goes missing in New York City.
His body would later be
found in the East River.
It is believed that Gray threw himself off
the side of the Staten Island Ferry.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
A hidden treasure is worth nothing ~ German Proverb
