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Today is Day 19 of 2024
1793
French King Louis XVI
is sentenced to death.
1803
Poet,
transcendentalist & spiritualist Sarah Helen
Whitman born in Providence, Rhode Island.
For a period of time
she was linked romantically with Edgar Allan Poe.
This came to an end when Poe broke his sobriety vow to her.
1807
Confederate
General Robert E.
Lee born in Westmoreland County, Virginia.
1809 
Writer & poet Edgar Allan Poe
born in Boston.
Chambers Book of
Days noted, When sober and sane, Poe was a gentleman of pure taste
and elegant manners.
Since 1949, a mysterious visitor
dressed in black wearing a fedora hat has left a half-filled bottle of
cognac along with three red roses at Poe's grave at the Old Western
Burial Ground in Baltimore.
1829
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust has its premiere
performance.
1839
Painter Paul
Cézanne born in Aix-en-Provence, France.
1853
Giuseppe Verdi's
opera Il
trovatore premieres in Rome.
1887
New Yorker
critic Alexander
Woollcott born in Phalanx,
New Jersey.
1915
Inventor Georges Claude
patents the neon
tube.
1916
Artist Brion Gysin born
on Taplow, England.
Best known for creating the cut-up
technique fo writing used by William
Burroughs.
1921
Author Patricia
Highsmith (The Talented
Mr. Ripley) born in Fort Worth, Texas.
1930
Actress Tippi Hedren (The Birds) born
in New Ulm, Minnesota.
1932
Film
director Richard
Lester (A Hard
Day's Night) born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1935
Sound
engineer for the Grateful Dead and chemist to the 60'sAugustus Owsley
"Bear" Stanley III born in Kentucky.
1939
Singer-songwriter and guitarist Phil Everly, one half of the The Everly
Brothers, born in Chicago, Illinois.
1943
Singer Janis Joplin born in
Port Arthur, Texas.
1946
Singer Dolly Parton born in
Sevierville, Tennessee.
Novelist Julian Barnes (Falubert's Parrot) born in Leicester, England.
1954 
Photographer Cindy Sherman born
in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
“Not everything that’s round is a walnut” ~ Persian Proverb
