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Today is Day 168 of 2024
1723
Philosopher and economist Adam Smith (Wealth of Nations) born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland.
1816
On this day in the so called The Year without Summer, Lord Byron would read an anthology of ghost stories called Fantasmagoriana
to his four house guests - Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori at the Villa Diodati.
This inspires him to challenge each guest to write a ghost story.
Mary Shelly will produce Frankenstein, John Polidori writes the short story The Vampyre, and Byron will compose the poem Darkness.
1829
Apache warrior and leader Geronimo born near Turkey Creek, a tributary of the Gila River in New Mexico.
1890
Film Comedian Stan Laurel born in Ulverston, England.
1904 
Bloomsday.
Leopold Bloom makes his odyssey around Dublin in James Joyce's Ulysses.
This is also the date of Joyce's first date with his future wife Nora Barnacle.
"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."
James Joyce - Ulysses
1917
Photographer Irving Penn born in Plainfield, NJ.
1938
Writer Joyce Carol Oates born in Lockport, New York.
1958
Prime Minister Imre Nagy is executed for his part in the 1956 Hungarian Uprising.
1959
Actor George Reeves the original Superman on TV dies under mysterious circumstances during a late night party at his home.
1960
Alfred Hitchcock's movie Psycho premiers.
1961
Ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
1963
Soviet Space Vostok 6 Mission carries Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova who becomes the first woman in space.
1964
San Francisco's Condor Club becomes the first topless bar in the United States.
Dancer Carol Doda steps onstage in a bottom-only swimsuit designed by Rudi Gernreich.
The Monterey Pop Festival begins.
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars album by released by David Bowie.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
Every sandpiper praises its own swamp. ~ Russian Proverb
