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Today is Day 24 of 2024
Feria de Alasitas La Paz,
Bolivia.
41
The Praetorian Guards
murder Roman Emperor
Caligula and his family.
1776
German
author, jurist, composer, music critic, draftsman and caricaturist E. T. A.
Hoffmann (The
Nutcracker and the Mouse King) born in Königsberg, Prussia.
1848 
The California gold rush begins when James W Marshall
discovers gold at Sutter's
Mill near Sacramento, California.
1862
Author Edith Wharton (Ethan Frome) born in
New York.
1915 
Painter Robert
Motherwell born in Aberdeen, Washington.
1916
Chicago
sportscaster legend Jack Brickhouse
born in Peoria, Illinois.
1935
The first
can of beer produced -
Krueger Finest Beer.
1941
Singer/songwriter Neil
Diamond born in Brooklyn, New York.
1943
Actress Sharon Tate (The
Fearless Vampire Killers) born in Dallas, Texas.
1947
Singer/songwriter Warren Zevon born in
Chicago.
1948
John Huston's Treasure of Sierra Madre starring Humphrey Bogart
opens.
1949
Comedian John Belushi (The Blues
Brothers) born in Chicago.
1955
Former Marine
Ira Hayes, member of
the raising
the Flag on Iwo Jima, dies of exposure to cold and alcohol poisoning
after a night of drinking in Bapchule, Arizona
1962
Music
entrepreneur Brian
Epstein signs a management contract with the Beatles.
1982 
Super Bowl XVI -
San Francisco 49er's beat the Cinncinati Bengals 26-21 in the Pontiac
Silverdome in Detroit.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"The devil knows more because he is old rather than because he is a devil." ~ Mexican Proverb
