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Today is Day 89 of 2024
1790
Tenth
President of the US, John Tyler born in
Charles City County, Virginia.
1867 
Denton True
Cy Young, winningest baseball pitcher ever (509 wins, 1890-1911),
born in Gilmore, Ohio.
1886 
Coca-Cola created by Dr. John Pemberton
in Atlanta, Georgia.
1912
Antarctic
explorer Robert
Falcon Scott makes his final journal entry: "Last entry. For
God's sake look after our people."
It is presumed he died
this day.
He and his companions will not be found until the
following November.
1916
Poet and
politician Eugene
McCarthy born in Watkins, Minnesota.
1943
Comedian
Eric Idle (Monty Python's Flying
Circus) born in South Shields, England.
1945
The last V-1 bomb attacks
on England occurs.
1951
Ethel and
Julius Rosenberg are convicted of espionage.
1973
The last
American combat soldiers leave South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
1974
Local farmers
in China digging a well discover the Terracotta Army
that was buried with Qin Shi Huang, the
first Emperor of China, in the third century BCE.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"The first step to wisdom is silence." ~ Jewish Proverb
