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Today is Day 14 of 2024
Feast of the
Ass
Medieval Christian feast celebrating the Flight into
Egypt.
83_BC
Roman
general and politician Mark Antony born in
Rome.
1858
Napoleon III of
France escapes an assassination attempt - known as the Orsini
affair.
1863 
Comic strip creator Richard F.
Outcault (The
Yellow Kid) born in Lancaster, Ohio.
1874
Humanitarian
Doctor Albert
Schweitzer born in Kaysersberg, Germany.
1892 
Painter Grant Wood (American Gothic)
born in Anamosa, Iowa.
1896
Writer John Dos Passos
(U.S.A.
Trilogy) born in Chicago.
1904
Photographer
Cecil Beaton born
in London, England.
1905
New Yorker
writer and journalist Emily Hahn born in St.
Louis, Missouri.
1924 
Actor Guy Williams
(Zorro)
born in New York.
1925
Japanese
novelist, poet, actor and playwright Yukio Mishima born
in Tokyo.
1928
Photographer
Garry
Winogrand born in the Bronx, New York.
He said,"
Photography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that
thing looks photographed".
1941
Actress Faye Dunaway (Bonnie &
Clyde) born in Bascom, Florida.
1943
Actress Frances Farmer
taken to jail for parole violations for her drunk driving conviction.
She states her occupation as “cocksucker” and receives a
180 day sentence.
1948
Singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer T-Bone Burnett born
in St Louis, Missouri.
1952
NBC's Today debuts
with host Dave
Garroway.
1954
Baseball
icon Joe DiMaggio
and movie icon Marilyn Monroe
perform a merging of icons by marrying at City Hall in San
Francisco.
1963
Film director
Steven
Soderbergh (Sex, Lies and
Videotape) born in Atlanta, Georgia.
1967
The Human Be-In takes
place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park.
This would serve as a precursor to the so-called Summer of
Love.
1968 
Super
Bowl II - Packers beat the Raiders 33-14 in Miami at the Orange
Bowl.
1973 
Super Bowl VII -
Dolphins beat the Redskins 14-7 in the Los Angeles Coliseum.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"Speaking is silver, silence is gold." ~ Czech Proverb
