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Today is Day 92 of 2024
April Fools day 
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Some historians estimate the Last Supper of Christ
occurred on this day.
1647
Poet and
Restoration rake
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, (A
Satyr Against Reason and Mankind) born in Ditchley, Oxfordshire,
England.
1854
Charles
Dickens' novel Hard Times begins
serialisation in his weekly magazine - Household
Words.
1868
Playwright
Edmond Rostand
(Cyrano
de Bergerac) born in Marseilles, France.
1873
Russian
composer, pianist, and conductor Sergei
Rachmaninoff born in Semyonovo, Russia.
1883
Actor Lon Chaney (Man of
a Thousand Faces) born in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
1922
Historian William
Manchester (The Death of
a President) born in Attleboro, Massachusetts.
1929
Writer Milan Kundera (The
Unbearable Lightness of Being) born in Brno, Czechoslovakia.
1949
Soul and jazz
poet and author Gil Scott-Heron
born in Chicago, Illinois.
1970
American
Motors introduces the Gremlin.
1976
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
founded the Apple Computer
Company.
1984
Singer Marvin Gaye is killed
by a gunshot wound during an argument with his father in Los Angeles,
California.
1997
Comet Hale Bopp
reaches the periheion or the point of least distance from the
sun.
2004
Google launchs Gmail - an email
service.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"Even a giant oak was once an acorn. ~ Slavic Proverb"
