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Today is Day 85 of 2024
Feast of
the Annunciation sometimes called Lady Day
Celebrates
the visit of the archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary when he tells her
that she would be the mother of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
1199
Richard I is wounded by
a crossbow bolt while fighting France.
1811
Poet Percy Bysshe
Shelley is expeled from the University of Oxford for publishing the
pamphlet The
Necessity of Atheism.
1881
Composer and
pianist Béla
Bartók born in Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary.
1908
Film
director David Lean
(Lawrence
of Arabia) born Croydon, England.
1918
Sports
journalist Howard
Cosell born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
1925
Author Flannery
O'Connor (Wise
Blood) born in Savannah, Georgia.
1934
American
journalist and activist Gloria Steinem born
in Toledo, Ohio.
1942 
Soul sister Number One Aretha Franklin
born in Memphis Tennessee.
1947
Rocker Elton John (born
Reginald Kenneth Dwight) born in Pinner, England.
1957
United States
Customs service seizes copies of the poem Howl by Allen Ginsberg on
obscenity grounds.
1969
John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first
Bed-In for Peace at the
Amsterdam Hilton Hotel during their honeymoon.
1975
King Faisal of
Saudi Arabia is shot and killed by his nephew.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"Distant water does not put out a nearby fire." ~ Chinese Proverb
