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Today is Day 266 of 2024
Birthday of Frodo and Bilbo Baggins of Lord of the Rings fame.
1598
English playwright Ben Jonson takes part in a duel and kills actor Gabriel Spenser.
Jonson is charged with manslaughter to which he pleads guilty.
He is released by benefit of clergy which entails reciting the 51st Psalm (the neck-verse) and being branded on his left thumb.
1776
Nathan Hale hanged for spying on the British.
Quoth the hangee, I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
1792
The the first day of the French Republican Calendar.
1823
Joseph Smith claims the Angel Moroni directed him to a place where Golden plates were buried at the Hill Cumorah.
1862 
President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation declares that persons held as slaves in areas in rebellion against the United States would be free as of 1 January 1963.
1885
Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold, the first of four operas in Der Ring des Nibelungen, is performed for the first time in Munich.
Film director/actor Erich von Stroheim (Greed) born in Vienna, Austria.
1898
German writer Erich Maria Remarque (All Quiet on the Western Front) born in Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany.
1927
The “Long Count” occurs during the Dempsey/Tunney fight, when boxer Gene Tunney was knocked down but the champion, Jack Dempsey, didn't return to his corner.
By the time the ref was able to resume counting, Tunney was able to get to his feet.
Tunney won the fight and took the world championship away from Dempsey.
1964 
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. debuted on NBC-TV.
1969
The “Paul Is Dead” controversy begins when Illinois University newspaper runs an article with the headline “Clues Hint At Beatle Death”.
1975
A second asassination attempt made against President Gerald Ford in less than three weeks.
The president is shot at in San Francisco, California, by Sara Jane Moore.
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Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay, Wisconsin as seen from Lake Geneva on September 19, 2021.
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Proverb:
"You can pull and pull, but you can't milk a bull." ~ English Proverb
