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Today is Day 15 of 2024
1559
Queen Elizabeth
I crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
Bags of cats are
burned during the coronation for good luck.
Thus begins the Elizabethan
era.
1622
French
playwright Molière born
in Paris.
1891
Russian poet
Osip Mandelstam
born in Warsaw, Poland.
1909
Jazz drummer
Gene Krupa born
Chicago.
1929
Civil Rights
leader Martin Luther
King Jr. born in Atlanta, Georgia.
1941
Artist/musician Captain
Beefheart (nee Don Van Vliet) born in Glendale, California.
1948
Jean Cocteau's movie
“
Beauty & the Beast” is released in the US.
1949
The body of
Elizabeth Short known as the Black Dahlia was
found in Leimert Park Los Angeles.
1967 
Super
Bowl I played.
Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs
35-10 in the Los Angeles Coliseum.
This event only became known as
the Super Bowl after the game was played.
1978 
Super Bowl XII -
Cowboys beat the Broncos 27-10 in New Orleans Superdome.
2001 
The English Wikipedia, a wiki-based
free content encyclopedia, was officially launched.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"It always rains on the wet." ~ Italian Proverb
