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Today is Day 34 of 2024
1809
Composer,
pianist and organist Felix
Mendelssohn born in the independent city-state of Hamburg.
1842
Poet Sidney Lanier born in
Macon, Georgia.
1874
Writer Gertrude Stein is
born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
1894
Artist Norman Rockwell
born in New York.
1904
Gangster Pretty Boy Floyd
is born in Adairsville, Georgia.
1907
Writer James Michener
(Tales
of the South Pacific) born in New York.
1909
French
philosopher & mystic Simone Weil born in
Paris.
1931
The
legislature of the State of Arkansas passed a resolution asking people
to pray for H.L.
Mencken, the Baltimore columnist who had singled out the state as
the center of cultural moronia.
1935
Singer-songwriter and guitarist Johnny
"Guitar" Watson born in Houston, Texas.
1938
Character
actor Victor
Buono (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?) born in San Diego,
California.
1943
Four Chaplains Day
- When the Allied troopship S.S. Dorchester was torpedoed by a German
sub and went down with a loss of 600 lives, four chaplains gave up their
lifejackets to shipmates, thereby also perishing in the icy
waters.
1959
Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, &
Richie Valens
are killed in plane crash near Mason City, Iowa.
According to Don McLean this was the day the
music died in the song American Pie.
1961
Bob Dylan made his first
recording, taping San Francisco
Bay Blues in New York.
1967
Jimi Hendrix records
Purple Haze.
1972 
XI Winter
Olympics open in Sapporo, Japan.
2002
Super Bowl XXXVI
- The New England Patriots beat the St Louis Rams 20 to 17 in the
Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, La.
2008
Super Bowl XLII -
The New York Giants beat the New England Patriots 17 to 14 in at the
University of Phoenix stadium in Glendale, AZ.
2013
Super Bowl XLVII
- The Baltimore Ravens beat the San Francisco 49er's 34 to 31 in at the
Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans, La.
2019
Super Bowl LIII -
The New England Patriots beat the Los Angeles Rams 13 to 3 in yhe
Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
“Give neither salt nor counsel till you are asked for it.” ~ German Proverbs
