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Today is Day 31 of 2024
1606
Guy Fawkes is executed
for his part in the Gunpowder Plot
1872
American western writer, dentist, sport fisherman and baseball player Zane Grey (Riders of
the Purple Sage) born in Zanesville, Ohio.
1902 
Actress Tallulah
Bankhead born in Huntsville, Alabama.
1905
Writer John O'Hara
(BUtterfield 8)
born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania.
1906
Blues pianist Roosevelt Sykes
born in Elmar, Arkansas.
1915
Author and Trappist monk Thomas Merton (The Seven
Storey Mountain) born in Pyrenees-Orientales, France.
American field collector of folk music of the 20th century, Alan Lomax born in Austin, Texas.
1919
First black player to play in major league
baseball, Jackie
Robinson born in Cairo, Georgia.
1921
American actress and chanteuse Carol Channing
(Hello,
Dolly!) born in Seattle, Washington.
1923
Novelist Norman Mailer (The Naked &
the Dead) born in Long Branch, New Jersey.
1937
American composer Philip Glass born in
Baltimore, Maryland.
1944
Blues harmonica player Charlie
Musselwhite born in Kosciusko, Mississippi.
1945
US Army private Eddie Slovik is
executed for desertion.
This is the first execution of an American
soldier since the Civil War.
1948 
J. D.
Salinger's short story A
Perfect Day for Banana Fish appears in The New
Yorker.
The story deals with the final day in the life of Seymour
Glass.
1971 
Apollo 14 lifts off
with Astronauts Alan
Shepard, Stuart
Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the
Moon.
1977 
The Musée National d'Art Moderne at the Centre
Pompidou
opens in the 4th
arrondissement in Paris.
1988 
Super Bowl XXII -
Washington Redskins beat the Denver Broncos 42-10 in San Diego.
1993 
Super Bowl XXVII
- Dallas Cowboys beat the Buffalo Bills 52-17 in the Rose Bowl in
Pasadena, California.
1999 
Super Bowl
XXXIII - Denver Broncos beat the Atlanta Falcons 20-17 in Pro Player
Stadium, Miami, Florida.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"There is only one thing harder than looking for a dewdrop in the dew, and that is fishing for a clam in the clam chowder." ~ New England proverb
