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Today is Day 16 of 2024
27 BCE – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is given the title Augustus by the Roman Senate. marking the start of the Roman Empire.
1605
The first edition of Don Quixote by Miguel de
Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.
1874
Poet Robert W.
Service (The
Cremation of Sam Magee) born in Preston, England.
1878
Silent
western film star Harry Carey
(The
Outcasts of Poker Flats) born in the Bronx, New York.
1893
Queen
Lilluokalani's Hawaiian regime is overthrown by pineapple tycoon Sanford Dole.
1908
Actress and
singer Ethel
Merman (There's No Business Like Show
Business) born in New York City.
1911
Hall of Fame
baseball pitcher Dizzy
Dean (St.
Louis Cardinals) born in Lucas, Arkansas.
1920
The 18th
Amendment -
Prohibition, goes into effect.
1928
Novelist William
Kennedy (Ironweed)
born in Albany, New York.
1934
Author Susan Sontag (Notes on Camp)
born in New York.
Crime matriarch Ma Barker meets her maker in a shoot-out with police in Ocklawaha, Florida.
1942
Actress Carole Lombard dies
in a plane crash outside of Las Vegas along with 21 others on board TWA Flight 3.
1957
The Cavern Club, where
the Beatles came to
fame, opens in Liverpool.
1959 
Singer
Sade (Helen Folasade
Adu) born in Ibadan, Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria.
1964
The musical
Hello,
Dolly! opened on Broadway.
Based on Thorton Wilder's
play The
Matchmaker, it will run for 2,844 performances.
1972 
Super Bowl VI -
Cowboys beat the Dolphins 24-3 at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans.
1979
The flight to
Egypt by the last Shah of
Iran.
1991
US invades
Kuwait & Iraq the beginning of Gulf War I.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
“A thief thinks everybody steals.” ~ Indian proverb
