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Today is Day 13 of 2024
St Knut's Day
Traditional day in Scandinavia when Christmas trees are taken down and the candies and cookies that decorated the tree are eaten.
1599
The death of
Edmund Spenser,
English poet, (The Faerie
Queene) in London, aged 46.
1884
Entertainer
Sophie "Last of
the Red-Hot Mammas" Tucker born somewhere in Csarist
Russia.
1887
Armenian
mystic George
Gurdjieff born in Alexandropol, Russia.
1910
The first
radio broadcast takes place with a live performance of the opera Pagliacci from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
1925
Dancer and
choreographer Gwen
Verdon born in Culver City California.
1938
French
cartoonist Cabu born in
Châlons-en-Champagne, France
1941
Irish writer
James Joyce (Ulysses) passes
away in Zurich, Switzerland following surgery.
He was 58 years
old.
1957 
Wham-O Company produces the
first Frisbee.
1962
TV comedian Ernie Kovacs is
killed in a car crash in West Los Angeles.
1968
Singer Johnny Cash performs
live Folsom State prison in California.
The performance will produce
the hit album At
Folsom Prison.
1974
Super Bowl VIII -
Dolphins beat the Vikings 24-7 in Houston in Rice Stadium.
Square One
Ranch
Photo of the Day
Tucked in amongst the brambles is a peacock at the haunted ranch down the
road a piece from Square One Ranch.
Taken on this day in 2022.
Click on the photo for a larger view.
Photo available Here
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"The dog barks but the caravan moves on." - Persian Proverb
