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Today is Day 22 of 2024
1552 
English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier,
courtier, spy and explorer Sir Walter Raleigh
born in Devonshire, England.
1561
English philosopher, lawyer, linguist,
composer, mathematician, poet, painter Francis Bacon born
in London, England.
1573
English poet
John Donne (Holy Sonnets) born
in London, England.
1788 
Poet George Gordon,
Lord Byron born in London, England.
1849
Swedish
author, poet, and playwright August
Strindberg born in Stockholm, Sweden.
1875
Film
director D.W.
Griffith (Birth of a
Nation) born in La Grange, Kentucky.
1893
Actor,
director, and producer Conrad Veidt (The
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) born in Berlin, Germany.
1897
Blues and
gospel musician Blind Willie
Johnson born in Brenham, Texas.
1898
Director and
screenwriter Sergei
Eisenstein (Battleship
Potemkin) born in Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian
Empire.
1901
Victoria, Queen of
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India,
dies.
Her son Edward is crowned
Edward VII.
So begins the Edwardian
Era.
1904
Choreographer
and director George
Balanchine born in St Petersburg, Russian Empire.
1906
Pulp fiction
writer and poet Robert E. Howard
(Conan the
Barbarian) born in Peaster, Texas.
1909 
Actress Ann Sothern born
Valley City, North Dakota.
1922
Poet, critic
and poetry editor for The New Yorker, Howard Moss born in
New York City.
1931
Singer Sam Cooke born in
Clarksdale, Mississippi.
1938
Photographer,
diarist and writer Peter Beard born in
New York.
1946
English
impresario, visual artist, performer, musician, clothes designer Malcolm McLaren
born in London, England.
He was best known as the manager and
promoter of the punk rock band the Sex Pistols.
1953
Film director
and screenwriter Jim
Jarmusch (Mystery
Train) born in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.
1984 
Super Bowl XVIII
- Oakland Raiders beat the Washington Redskins 38-9 in Tampa
Bay.
The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, was introduced during Super Bowl XVIII with its famous 1984 television commercial.
1989 
Super Bowl XXIII
- San Francisco 49er's beat the Cinncinati Bengals 20-16 in
Miami.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
“Not Every Sweet Root Gives Birth to Sweet Grass.” ~ Native American Proverb
