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Today is Day 298 of 2024
1260
Chartres
Cathedral in France was consecrated by Pope Alexander
IV.
1901
On her 63rd
birthday, adventurer and daredevil Annie Edson
Taylor becomes the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls
in a barrel.
1911
Orville Wright
stays airborne for nine minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider at Kill
Devil Hills, North Carolina.
1915
Comic book
writer/artist Bob Kane
(Batman) born in New
York.
1923
Poet Denise Levertov
born in London.
1933
English
gangsters Reginald and
Ronald Kray born in Hoxton, Middlesex, England.
1936
Bill Wyman, former bass
player for the Rolling Stones,
is born in London.
1939 
Nylon stockings
were sold to the public for the first time, in Wilmington,
Delaware.
1945 
Founding of the United
Nations.
1946
The first
photograph of earth from outer space is taken by a camera on board the
V-2 No. 13
rocket.
1971
Harry Drake sets
longest arrow shot using a footbow (1 mile 268 yds).
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"A dove has no place among crows." ~ Greek Proverb
