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Today is Day 80 of 2024
43
BC
Roman poet Ovid (The Metamorphis)
born.
1413
King Henry IV of
England dies in Westminster Abbey, London, England.
Henry believed
he would die in Jerusalem on crusade as had been predicted.
Instead,
he died in the Jerusalem
Chamber of Wesminster Abbey.
1612
Poet Anne Bradstreet
born in Northampton, England.
1616
Sir Walter
Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London
after 13 years of imprisonment.
1815
Napoleon enters Paris
after escaping exile in Elba.
This is the beginning of his 'Hundred Days'
rule.
1823 
Publisher, publicist & dime novelist, Ned Buntline
(pseudonym of Edward Zane Carroll Judson) born in Harpersfield, New
York.
He helped foster the legend of William F Cody, who
he dubbed as Buffalo Bill and wrote a series of dime novels based on
Cody's life as a hunter and scout.
1828
Norwegian
poet and playwright Henrik Ibsen (A Doll's House)
born in Skein, Norway.
1852
Harriet Beecher
Stowe's Uncle Tom's
Cabin is published.
1915
American
singer-songwriter and guitarist Sister Rosetta
Tharpe born in Cotton Plant, Arkansas.
1928
Television
personality, musician, puppeteer, writer, producer, and Presbyterian
minister, Fred
Rogers (Mister
Roger's Neighborhood) born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
1957
American
film director Spike
Lee (Do the
Right Thing) born in Atlanta, Georgia.
1969
John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in
Gibraltar.
2003
Land troops
from the Coalition of
the Willing - United States of America, United Kingdom, Australia
and Poland invade Iraq, preceded by an air strike on the suspected
bunker of Saddam
Hussein in Baghdad.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"Every trail has some puddles." ~ Old West Proverb
