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Today is Day 141 of 2024
1520
The massacre at the Aztec festival of Tóxcatl takes place during the Fall of Tenochtitlan.
1609
Shakespeare's sonnets are first published in London.
1734
Pioneer beekeeper and painter Anton Janša born in Breznica, Carniola (now in Slovenia).
In his honor, this day is called World Bee Day.
1799
French novelist Honoré de Balzac (La Comédie Humaine) born in Tours, France.
1873
Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis received a US patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
1908
Actor James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story) born in Indiana, Pennsylvania.
1916 
The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting (Boy with Baby Carriage).
1927
Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York for his flight across the Atlantic.
1944
Singer Joe Cocker born in Sheffield, England.
1946
Cher born in El Centro, California.
1954 
Bill Haley and the Comets release 'Rock Around the Clock'.
1956
The United States dropped hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean in Operation Redwing.
1960
The Twilight Zone: Episode 32"A Passage for Trumpet" airs on this Friday evening.
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Photo of the Day
Garden in hand - offerings to the Kitchen Goddess. Taken on 20210517.
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Photo available Here
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
“To overcome a desperate situation, make a complete turn in one sudden burst.” ~ Japanese Proverb
