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Today is Day 32 of 2024
1327
Edward III
is crowned King of England after the abdication of his father Edward II
earlier.
Since Edward III was a teenager, the country is ruled by
his mother Queen Isabella
(The She-Wolf of France) and her lover
Roger Mortimer.
1887
Author Charles Nordhoff
(Mutiny on
the Bounty) born in London, England.
1893
The first
motion picture studio called the Black Maria
is constructed by Thomas A. Edison in
West Orange, New Jersey.
1895
Film
director John Ford
(Stagecoach)
born in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
1901
Actor Clark Gable (Gone With
the Wind) born in Cadiz, Ohio.
1902
Poet Langston Hughes
(Let
America be America Again) born in Joplin, Missouri.
I play
it cool
And dig all jive.
That's the reason
I stay
alive.
My motto,
As I live and learn,
is:
Dig And Be
Dug
In Return.
~ Langston Hughes
1904 
New Yorker humorist
and raconteur S. J.
Perelman born in Brooklyn, New York.
1916
Poet Gavin Ewart born in
London.
1922
Film
director William Desmond
Taylor found murdered in his bungalow at the Alvarado Court
Apartments in Los Angeles.
The case is never solved.
A fanzine
called Taylorology is centered
on the murder.
1924
Author and
surgeon Richard
Hooker (MASH) born in Trenton, New Jersey.
1927
Poet Galway Kinnell born
in Providence, Rhode Island.
1937
Singer-songwriter and guitarist Don Everly
born in Bowie, Kentucky.
1960
Four black
students stage the first of the Greensboro
sit-ins at a Woolworth
lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1962
Ken Kesey's novel, One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest is published.
Japanese artist Takashi Murakami born in Tokyo, Japan.
1964
The Beatles' I Want to
Hold Your Hand reaches #1 and stays there for seven weeks.
1968 
Famous photo of Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan
executing a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head.
2003
The Space
Shuttle Columbia blows up on re-entry, with its debris hitting homes
and businesses in Nacogdoches, Texas.
2004
Super Bowl
XXXVIII - New England Patriots beat the Carolina Panthers 32-29 in
Houston.
During the halftime show Justin Timberlake exposes Janet
Jackson's right breast.
2009
Super Bowl XLIII
- The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Arizona Cardinals 27-23 in Tampa
Bay.
2015
Super Bowl XLIX -
The New England Patriots beat the Seattle Seahawks 28-24 at University
of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, AZ.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"What a sober man has in his heart, the drunk has on his lips." ~ Irish proverb
