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Today is Day 25 of 2024
1533
King Henry VIII
of England secretly marries his second wife Anne Boleyn.
1759 
Burns Night
The Bard of
Caledonia, Robert
Burns born in Alloway, Scotland.
Some hae meat and canna
eat,
and some wad eat that want it,
but we hae meat and we can
eat,
and sae the Lord be thankit.
~ The Selkirk Grace attributed
to Robert Burns
1874
Writer William Somerset
Maugham (Of
Human Bondage) born in Paris.
1882
Writer Virginia Woolf (Mrs Dalloway) born
London.
1890
Journalist Nellie Bly completes
her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
1899
Bluesman Sleepy John
Estes born in Ripley, Tennessee.
1924 
First Winter
Olympics open in Chamonix, France.
1934
Bank robber
John Dillinger
captured in Tucson, Arizona.
He would later escape using a pistol
carved from a shelf board with a razor blade.
1952
Poet Alice Fulton born in
Troy, NY.
She said: "The truly new looks truly wrong at
first."
1961
Walt Disney releases
101
Dalmatians, their 17th animated feature film.
1981 
Super Bowl XV -
Oakland Raiders beat the Philadelphia Eagles 27-10 in the Louisiana
Superdome.
1987 
Super Bowl XXI -
New York Giants beat the Denver Broncos 39-20 in the Rosebowl in
Pasadena.
1998 
Super Bowl XXXII
- Denver Broncos beat the Green Bay Packers 31-24 at Qualcomm stadium in
San Diego.
2006
Mexican lucha libre wrestler
Juana Barraza
(The Lady of Silence) is arrested in connection with the serial killing
42 to 48 elderly women.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"It is better to have less thunder in the mouth and more lightning in the hand." ~ Apache Proverb
