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Today is Day 78 of 2024
1837
Twenty-Second & Twenty-Fourth President of the US, Grover Cleveland
born in Caldwell, New Jersey.
1844
Russian composer Nikolai
Rimsky-Korsakov born in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
1871
The Paris Commune
begins.
1877
Mystic and
psychic Edgar
Cayce born in Christian County, Kentucky.
He was known as the
"Sleeping Prophet" because he made his predictions while
asleep.
1886
Character
actor and voice of Fractured Fairy Tales, Edward Everett
Horton, born Brooklyn, New York.
1893
Soldier and
poet Wilfred Owen
born in Oswestry, Shropshire, England.
Owen was killed in action on 4
November 1918 just a week before the
Armistice.
1901
Author,
lecturer, astrologer and mystic Manly Hall (The
Secret Teachings of All Ages) born in Peterborough, Canada
1910 
American escapologist and
aviator Harry
Houdini flew a heavier-than-air machine at Diggers
Rest, near Melbourne, Australia.
1913
King George I of
Greece is assassinated by an alcoholic vagrant who shot the King in
the back as he strolled by.
1927
Writer and
founder of the Paris Review George Plimpton
born in New York.
1932
Writer John Updike (Rabbit Run) born in
Reading, Pennsylvania.
1941
Singer Wilson "Wicked"
Pickett born in Prattville, Alabama.
1965
Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards & Bill Wyman arrested for
urinating on the wall of a gas station where they sought use of the
men's room and were refused.
1992 
Microsoft shipped Windows 3.1.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
“Cherish a broom as if it were gold.” ~ Chinese Proverb
