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Today is Day 33 of 2024
Candlemas Day
Feast of the Presentation of Jesus in the
Temple.
All the candles used in church are blessed on this
day.
1848
Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo ends the United States war with Mexico.
Mexico gives up parts of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah,
Colorado & Texas to the U.S.
1854 
Mexican engraver and illustrator, José
Guadalupe Posada born In Aguascalientes, Mexico.
He is known for
his engravings of calaveras (skeletons) that are associated with the Day of the
Dead.
1863
Samuel Clemens uses his pen name - Mark Twain for the first time in
a letter to the Enterprise newpaper in Virginia City, Nevada.
1876
The National League of
Professional Baseball Clubs is founded.
1882 
Anarchist, tenor, bank clerk, dog hater,
teacher, thunder avoider, cinema entrepeneur, tippler, poet and
occasional writer James Joyce (Ulysses) is born in Dublin, Ireland.
Called 'Sunny Jim' by his
family in his youth for his bright disposition.
1887
Groundhog Day is celebrated for the first time in
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
Legend says when the groundhog first
appears from hibernation on this day, if he sees his shadow, he goes
back and sleeps off the next six weeks of bad weather.
1922
James Joyces's Ulysses is
published on his 40th birthday in Paris by Sylvia Beach under
the imprint of Shakespeare and Company.
1923
Poet/novelist James Dickey (Deliverance)
is delivered in Atlanta, Georgia.
1927
Jazz saxophonist Stan Getz is born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1933
Maids Christine and
Lea Papin murder their employer's wife and daughter in Le Mans,
France.
The case is the subject of a number of French films and
plays.
1982
A small painting by Dutch painter Pieter
Bruegel the Elder called Christ and the Woman
Taken in Adultery is stolen from the Courtauld
Gallery in London.
2014
Super Bowl
XLVIII - The Seattle Seahawks beat the Denver Broncos 43-8 in East
Rutherford, New Jersey.
2020
Super Bowl LIV -
The Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49er's 31 to 20 in at the
Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Fl.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
“Be happy while you’re living, For you’re a long time dead.” – Scottish Proverb
