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Today is Day 188 of 2024
The first day of the festival of San FermÃn which includes the running of the bulls in Pamplona.
This lasts until July 14.
1535
Sir Thomas More was beheaded for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as the supreme authority of the Church.
1553
Edward VI, king of England and Ireland dies at age 15 in Greenwich Palace, England.
He was the son and heir of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour.
1887
Artist Marc Chagall born in Liozna, Russian Empire.
1907 
Surrealist artist Frida Kahlo born in Coyoacán, Mexico.
1916
Poet Harold Norse born in New York City.
Norse is associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance.
1925
Rocker Bill Haley (Bill Haley and the Comets) born in Highland Park, Michigan.
1927
Actress Janet Leigh (Psycho) born in Merced, California.
1933
The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game is played in Chicago's Comiskey Park.
1935
Dalai Lama the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso born in Taktser, Tibet.
Stripper, burlesque dancer, actress, and model Candy Barr born in Edna, Texas.
Texas Monthly magazine listed Barr as one of history's "perfect Texans".
1944
A fire claims 167 lives when the main tent of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus catches fire in Hartford, Connecticut.
1946
Forty-third President of the US, George W. Bush born in New Haven, Connecticut.
Artist Jamie Wyeth born in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.
1953
Singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith born in Seguin, Texas.
1957
John Lennon meets Paul McCartney when Lennon's band, The Quarrymen, perform at a church fete.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. ~ Polish proverb
