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Today is Day 21 of 2024
1793 
King Louis XVI
(called Citizen Capet in his indictment) was beheaded by guillotine
on the site of the present Place de la
Concorde.
1813
Army officer,
explorer, politician, and 5th Territorial Governor of Arizona John C.
Frémont born in Savannah, Georgia.
1824
Conferate
General Stonewall
Jackson born in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
1869
Russian
Mystic Grigori
Rasputin born in Pokrovskoye, Siberia, Russian Empire.
1905
French
fashion designer Christian Dior
born in Granville, France.
1938
Radio disc
jockey Wolfman
Jack born (Robert Weston Smith) in Brooklyn, New York.
1941
Singer-songwriter and guitarist Richie Havens born
in Brooklyn, New York.
1953
Co-founder of
the software company Microsoft, Paul Allen born in
Seattle, Washington.
1968
North
Vietnamese troops surround the Khe Sanh combat
base and began a seventy-seven day siege of the 6,000 US Marines
stationed there.
1979 
Super Bowl XIII -
Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Dallas Cowboys 35-31 in Miami.
1981
Production of
the DeLorean
DMC-12 sports car begins in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland.
Best
known for the iconic role it played in the 1985 movie Back to the
Future.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"Lies have short legs." ~ Italian Proverb
