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Today is Day 81 of 2024
630
Emperor
Heraclius returns the True Cross, one of the
holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem.
1617
Pocahontas, Algonquian
princess, dies at age 21 in Gravesend, Kent, England.
She was on her
way back to Virginia from England wheen she fell ill and died.
1788
A fire
destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans leaving
the town in ruins.
1806
President of
Mexico Benito
Juárez born in San Pablo Guelatao, Oaxaca, Mexico. In
Mexico, his birthday is one of the five Patriotic Holidays (Fiestas
Patrias).
1839
Composer Modest
Mussorgsky (Night on Bald
Mountain) born in Karevo, Russian Empire.
1843
Day the Millerites believed was
the second coming of Christ.
1867
Impresario Florenz
Ziegfeld (Ziegfeld
Follies) born in Chicago, Illinois.
1880
Actor and
Director Broncho Billy
Anderson born in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Anderson was the first
film cowboy star known as Brono Billy in over 140 silent shorts.
1902 
Blues musician Son House born in
Riverton, Mississippi.
1905
Poet Phyllis McGinley
born in Ontario, Oregon.
1920
French Film
director Éric Rohmer
(My Night at
Maud's) born in Tulle, France.
1922
Film director
Russ Meyer (Faster,
Pussycat! Kill! Kill!) born in San Leandro, California.
1925
Director Peter Brook (Marat/Sade) born in
London, England.
1930
Blues singer Otis
Spann born in Jackson, Mississippi.
1940
Preacher and
R&B singer Solomon
Burke born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
1942
French actress Françoise
Dorléac (Billion Dollar
Brain) born in Paris, France.
1952
The first
rock and roll concert takes place in Cleveland, Ohio when Alan Freed presents
the Moondog
Coronation Ball.
1961
The Beatles
play the Cavern
Club for the first time.
1963
Alcatraz, a federal
penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes.
1969 
Kurt Vonnegut's
novel Slaughterhouse-
Five published.
1980 
United States boycotts the 1980 Summer
Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Afghan
War.
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Proverb:
"A guilty dog barks the loudest." ~ Southern Proverb
