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Today is Day 84 of 2024
1603
With the
death of Elizabeth
I, James VI
of Scotland becomes James I of England and Ireland.
1832
Mormon leader
Joseph Smith is
tar and
feathered In Hiram, Ohio.
1834
English
philosopher, artist, social reformer & poet William Morris born
in Walthamstow, England.
Soldier, geologist, and explorer John Wesley
Powell born in Mount Morris, New York.
Powell lead the first
officiial expedition through the Grand Canyon.
1862
Painter Frank Weston
Benson born in Salem, Massachusetts.
1874 
Escapologist Harry Houdini born
in Budapest, Hungary.
1886
Photographer
Edward Weston
(Nautilus)
born in Highland Park, Illinois.
1887
Silent film
comedian Roscoe
'Fatty' Arbuckle born in Smith Center, Kansas.
His
career was ruined in 1921 when he became embroiled in a sex and murder
scandal.
1897
Psychotherapist Wilhelm Reich born
in Dobzau, Austria-Hungary.
He invented the orgone accumulator.
1901
Animator and
cartoonist Ub Iwerks
born in Kansas City, Missouri.
He was the co-creator of Mickey Mouse.
1909
Criminal Clyde Barrow who,
with Bonnie Parker, terrorized midwest in the 1930s as 'Bonnie and
Clyde' born in Ellis County, Texas.
1911
American
animator, director, Joseph Barbera
born in Manhattan, New York.
He co-founded Hanna-Barbera
animation studio along with partner William
Hanna.
1919
Poet,
publisher & founder of City Lights
Bookstore in San Francisco, Lawrence
Ferlinghetti born in Yonkers, New York.
1930
Actor Steve McQueen (The Great
Escape) born in Beech Grove, Indiana.
1937
Singer and
pianist Billy
Stewart
(
Summertime) born in Washinton DC.
1944
The Great Escape occurs at German prison camp
Stalag Luft III when 76 Allied prisoners break out.
1958
Elvis Presley is
drafted into the U.S. Army.
1980
Archbishop Óscar Romero is
assassinated during Mass in San Salvador, El Salvador.
1999
A truck
carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
38 people lose
their lives.
2015
Germanwings
Flight 9525 crashes into the French Alps killing all 150 people on
board.
Murder-suicide by the co-pilot is suspected.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance." ~ Eskimo Proverb
