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Today is Day 91 of 2024
1596
French
philosopher, scientist & mathematician, René
Descartes born in La Haye en Touraine, France.
"I think
therefore I am."
1621
English poet
Andrew Marvell
(To His Coy
Mistress) born in Winestead, Yorkshire.
1685 
Composer Johann Sebastian
Bach born in Eisenach, Thuringia, Germany.
1732
Composer Franz Josef Haydn
born in Rohrau, Austria.
1809
Ukrainian-Russian author and playwright Nikolai Gogol born
in Sorochyntsi, Ukraine.
1836
The first
installment of The Posthumous
Papers of the Pickwick Club is published by Charles
Dickens.
1878
The first
African American world heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Johnson
born in Galveston, Texas.
1889
The Eiffel Tower in Paris
was opened.
At 300-meters, it was the world's tallest building at
the time.
1903
Binney &
Smith, Inc. began selling their Crayola Crayons to the
public.
1905
British
novelist Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle resurrects Sherlock Holmes.
Holmes had been killed off on May 4, 1891 by falling to his death
over the Alpine Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland.
1914
Mexican poet
Octavio Paz born in
Mexico City.
He said, "To love is to undress our
names."
1923
Novelist John Fowles (The Magus) born
in Leigh on Sea, Essex, England.
1931
A Fokker F-10 crashes
near Bazaar, Kansas, killing all eight people on board, including
University of Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne.
1943
The Rodgers and
Hammerstein musical Oklahoma! opened on
Broadway.
1945
The Glass
Menagerie by Tennessee
Williams opened on Broadway.
1951
Remington Rand
delivers the first UNIVAC
I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
1958
Chuck Berry's Johnny B. Goode
was released.
1968
In a
televised speech to the nation, President Lyndon B.
Johnson announces he will not run for president for a second
term.
I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my
party for another term as your president.
1995
Singer
song-writer Selena is
murdered by her fan club's president at a Days Inn in Corpus Christi,
Texas.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"A Hungry Wolf Is Stronger Than A Satisfied Dog." ~ Ukrainian Proverb
