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Today is Day 87 of 2024
1513
Spanish
conquistador Juan Ponce de
León first sighted Florida while searching for the Fountain of
Youth in the New World.
1625
With the death
of James VI and
I at Theobalds House, England, Charles I becomes King
of England, Scotland and Ireland.
1809
French engineer Georges-
Eugène Haussmann born in Paris.
His
renovation of the boulevards, parks and public works gave Paris its
distinctive look.
1879
Photographer
Edward Steichen
born in Bivange, Luxembourg.
1886
German architect Ludwig Mies
van der Rohe born in Aachen, Kingdom of Prussia, German
Empire.
1899
Actress Gloria Swanson born
in Chicago, Illinois.
1901
Cartoonist
and illustrator Carl
Barks born in Merrill, Oregon.
He was the creator of Scrooge
McDuck.
1924
Jazz singer
Sarah Vaughan "The Divine One," born
in Newark, NJ.
1926
Poet Frank O'Hara
born in Baltimore, Maryland.
1931
Actor David Janssen (Dr
Richard Kimble in the TV series The
Fugitive) born Naponee, Nebraska.
1963
Film
director Quentin
Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
born in Knoxville, Tennessee.
1968
First man in
space, Yuri
Gagarin is killed in a crash of the MIG-15 he
was piloting.
1973
A young
native American woman named Sacheen
Littlefeather takes the stage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, in
Los Angeles, California, to decline Marlon Brando's
Best Actor Oscar for The
Godfather.
1977
Two Boeing 747
airliners collided on Tenerife of the Canary Islands, killing
583.
The deadliest air disaster in the history of manned
flight.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"The man who has mounted an elephant will not fear the bark of a dog." ~ Indian Proverb
