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Today is Day 36 of 2024
1848
Outlaw Belle Starr born in
Carthage, Missouri.
1897
Writer Marcel Proust meets
critic Jean
Lorrain in a pistol duel caused by a slanderous article Lorrain has
written about Les Plaisirs et les Jours.
1906
Character
Actor John
Carradine born in New York City.
1908
Actress Peg Entwistle born
in Port Talbot, Wales.
She followed the siren call of Hollywood and
ended up jumping to her death from the H on the Hollywood sign
in September 1932 at the age of 24.
1914
Writer William
Burroughs (Naked
Lunch) born in St. Louis, Missouri.
Burroughs kept a daily
journal with three separate columns in it.
One for what he was
doing, a second for what he was thinking, and in the third for what he
was reading.
1934
Home run
king Hank Aaron,
(record 755 HRs) born in Mobile, Alabama.
1940 
Artist H. R. Giger born in
Chur, Switzerland.
He put the alien in Alien.
1948
Writer,
director, and comedian Christopher
Guest, born in New York City.
He played guitarist Nigel Tufnel
in the movie This is Spinal
Tap - who observed:
"It's like, how much more black could this
be? and the answer is none. None more black."
2006
Super Bowl XL -
Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Seattle Seahawks 21 to 10 in
Detroit.
2012
Super Bowl XLVI -
New York Giants beat the New England Patriots 21 to 17 in
Indianapolis.
2017
Super Bowl LI - The
New England Patriots beat the Atlanta Falcons in overtime 34 to 28 in
Houston, Texas.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
“A good tale never tires in the telling.” ~ Scottish Proverb
