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Today is Day 23 of 2024
1570
The first
recorded assassination by firearm occurs when James
Hamilton fired a shot at James
Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, the regent for the infant King James VI,
in Linlithgow, Scotland.
1783
French
writer Stendhal born
Marie-Henri Beyle in Grenoble, France.
1790 
The HMS Bounty is burned in
Bounty Bay by mutineers to avoid detection.
Bounty Day is now
celebrated on Pitcairn Island in
commemoration of the event.
1832 
French impressionist
painter Edouard
Manet born Paris.
1884 
Cartoonist George McManus (Bringing Up
Father) born in St. Louis, Mo.
1910
Jazz
guitarist Django
Reinhard born in Liberchies, Belgium.
1919
TV comedian
Ernie Kovacs born
in Trenton, New, Jersey.
1930
West Indian
poet/playwright Derek
Walcott born in Castries, Saint Lucia.
1968
USS Pueblo was
seized by North Korean forces, who claimed that it had violated their
territorial waters.
2004
Photographer
Helmut Newton
killed when his car sped out of control and hit a wall in the driveway
of the Chateau Marmont
Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"What's fur ye will no go by ye." ~ Scottish Proverb
