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Today is Day 79 of 2024
St. Joseph's
Day 
The swallows traditionally come back to the California
village church of San
Juan Capistrano
1687
Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle is shot and killed by
his one of his own men.
He had been lost in the Mississippi delta
area for 2 years while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi river.
1821
Explorer,
translator, and orientalist Sir Richard
Burton born in Torquay, Devon, England.
1848
Lawman and
gunfighter Wyatt
Earp born in Monmouth, Illinois.
He took part in the Gunfight
at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona at about 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881.
1864
Painter and
sculptor Charles Marion
Russell born in St. Louis, Missouri.
He created more than 2,000
art objects of the Old American
West.
1888 
Artist Josef Albers born in
Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany.
1916
Author and
screenwriter Irving
Wallace (The
Book of Lists) born in Chicago, Illinois.
1933
Writer Philip Roth (Portnoy's
Complaint) born in Newark, New Jersey.
1936
Actress Ursula Andress (Dr No) born in
Ostermundigen, Switzerland.
1937
R&B singer
and pianist Clarence
'Frogman' Henry (Ain't Got No Home) born in New Orleans,
Louisiana.
1943
Mobster Frank Nitti, the head
of Chicago Outfit after Al Capone, commits
suicide on the tracks at the Chicago Central Railyard.
1954
Pool player
Willie Mosconi
set a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss
during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in
Springfield, Ohio.
1962
Bob Dylan releases his
first album, the self-titled Bob Dylan, on
Columbia Records label.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"You cannot hold your head high with your hand out." ~Yiddish Proverb
