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Today is Day 160 of 2024
632
Muhammad, founder of Islam, dies in Mecca.
1042
Edward the Confessor becomes King of England.
1829
Painter, illustrator and founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood John Everett Millais born in London.
1848
Agricultural scientist Franklin Hiram King born on a farm near Whitewater, Wisconsin.
He designed the cylindrical storage silo to solve the problem of rotting silage in the corners of rectangular silos.
1867 
Architect Frank Lloyd Wright born Richland Center, Wisconsin.
Writer Mark Twain started on the world tour that he describes in his book Innocents Abroad.
1918
Actor Robert Preston (The Music Man) born in Newton, Massachusetts.
1921
Painter LeRoy Neiman born in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
1933
Comedian Joan Rivers born in Brooklyn, New York.
1948
Citation wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the eighth horse to win the Triple Crown.
1949
George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
1955
Computer engineer Tim Berners-Lee (invented the World Wide Web) born in London.
1978
Rolling Stones release the album Some Girls
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