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Today is Day 74 of 2024
Pi Day
derives from the three-digit approximation of pi - 3.14.
It is usually
celebrated at 1:59 (in recognition of the six-digit approximation:
3.14159).
1757
Admiral Sir John Byng is
executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for
breach of the Articles of War.
He knelt on a cushion before the
firing squad on the quarter deck and then dropped his hankie as a signal
to fire.
1863
Illinois
Central Railroad engineer Casey Jones born in
Jackson, Tennessee.
1869
Writer,
farmer, bartender, model, journalist, private secretary, businessman,
and violin teacher, Algernon
Blackwood (Incredible
Adventures) born in Shooter's Hill, Kent, England.
1879
Physicist Albert Einstein
born Ulm, Bavaria.
1887
Sylvia Beach, the
founder of
Shakespeare and Company, born in her father's parsonage in
Baltimore.
1898
Painter and
illustrator Reginald
Marsh born in Paris, France.
1903 
Painter
and sculptor Adolph Gottlieb
born in New York City.
1911
Japanese
origamist Akira
Yoshizawa born in Kaminokawa, Japan.
1912
Saxiphonist
and Big Bandleader Les Brown
born in Reinerton, Pennsylvania.
1916
Playwright
and screenwriter Horton Foote (Tender Mercies)
born in Wharton, Texas.
1920
Cartoonist Hank Ketcham (Dennis
the Menace) born in Seattle, Washington.
1923
Photographer
Diane Arbus born in
New York.
1933
Actor Michael Caine (The
Man Who Would Be King) born in London, England.
Record producer, conductor, arranger, composer, television producer, film producer, instrumentalist, and jazz trumpeter,Quincy Jones born in Chicago, Illinois.
1939
John Steinbeck's
The Grapes of
Wrath published.
1989
Naturalist
writer 'Cactus' Ed Abbey dies in
Oracle, Arizona.
He was buried in the Cabeza Prieta Desert where
'you'll never find it.'
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"Don’t sell your mule to buy a plow." ~ Old West Proverb
