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Today is Day 241 of 2024
1749
Writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Faust) born in Frankfurt, Germany.
1845
Scientific American magazine is published for the first time.
1913
Writer Robertson Davies (Deptford Trilogy) born in Thamesville, Ontario, Canada.
1917 
Comic book artist Jack Kirby (Captain America)born in New York.
1952
Poet Rita Dove born in Akron, Ohio.
She served as the 37th Poet Laureate of the United States
1955
African-American teenager Emmett Till, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, was brutally murdered after speaking inappropriately to a white woman.
1963 
Martin Luther King Jr's makes his “I have a Dream” speech at Lincoln Memorial.
Square One Ranch
Photo of the Day
Met a llama named Daisy at a barn sale near Fall City, Washington.
Taken 20190825 with the X camera.
Click on the photo for a larger view.
Photo available Here
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"The devil places a pillow for a drunken man to fall upon." ~ Canadian Proverb
