Yesterday C-Note's Almanac Tomorrow



1525
Painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder born in Breda, Netherlands.

1776
The Continental Congress officially names the 13 original colonies the United States.

1828

Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace) born in the province of Tula, near Moscow.

1850
California bececomes the 31st state.

1900
British author James Hilton (Lost Horizon) born in Leigh, Lancashire, England.

1941
Singer-songwriter Otis Redding (Sittin on the Dock of the Bay) born in Dawson, Georgia.

1966
John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition.



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