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Today is Day 76 of 2024
37
AD
Roman emperor Tiberius dies, possibly
by being smothered in his bed clothes by his adopted grandson Caligula.
1751
Fourth
President of the US James Madison born
in Port Conway, Virginia.
1792
King Gustavus
III of Sweden is shot by Captain
Anckarstroem during a masquerade ball at a Stockholm opera
palace.
1850
Nathaniel
Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet
Letter published.
1898
Illustrator
Aubrey
Beardsley dies of tuberculosis in Menton France.
He was 25 years
old.
1904
22 year old
James Joyce is
awarded the bronze medal in a Dublin singing contest.
He promptly
throws it into the River Liffey.
1912
Lawrence Oates, a
member of Robert Falcon
Scott's South Pole
expedition, left his tent to die, saying: 'I am just going outside
and may be some time.'
1926 
Robert
Goddard launches first liquid fuel rocket and it which goes 184
feet.
Comedian Jerry Lewis (The Nutty Professor) born Newark, New Jersey.
1940
Italian film
director Bernardo
Bertolucci (Last Tango in
Paris) born in Parma, Italy.
1942 
The first V-2 rocket test
launch.
It explodes on lift-off.
1968
My Lai
Massacre.
In a one hour killing spree, Charlie Company lines up
430 men, women & children in a ditch & proceeds to massacre every single
person.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
“Those who wish to sing always find a song.” ― Swedish proverb
