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Today is Day 90 of 2024
1746
Spanish
painter Francisco
Goya born Fuendetodos, Spain.
1844
French poet
Paul Verlaine
born in Metz, France.
1853 
Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh
born Zundert, Netherlands.
1880
Irish
dramatist and memoirist Seán
O'Casey (The Plough
and the Stars) born in Dublin, Ireland.
1914
Blues
harmonica player and singer Sonny Boy
Williamson I born in Jackson, Tennessee.
1939 
Detective Comics
#27 is released, introducing Batman.
1945
Musician Eric Clapton born
Ripley, England.
1964
Jeopardy!, the popular
game show created by Merv Griffin, debuts
on the NBC television network.
1967
The cover photograph of the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
album is photographed.
1981
John Hinkley
attempts to
assassinate Ronald Reagan.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"You can hide riches but not hide the poverty." ~ Finnish Proverb
