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Today is Day 299 of 2024
Feast of Saints Crispin and Crispinian now the patron saints of leather workers and shoemakers.
1400
Death comes for poet Geoffrey
Chaucer.
1415
During the Hundred Years'
War, Henry
V of England and his lightly armoured infantry and archers defeated
the heavily armoured French cavalry in the Battle of
Agincourt on Saint Crispin's
Day.
1760
King George III succeeds to the British throne on the death of his
grandfather George
II..
1854
Lord James Cardigan leads the Charge of
the Light Brigade over open terrain against well-defended Russian
artillery at Balaclava during the Crimean War.
His
brigade, mostly armed with swords, will lose nearly half of his 673
troops in the charge.
1881
Painter Pablo Picasso born
in Málaga, Spain.
1889
Director, producer, and screenwriter Abel Gance (Napoleon) born in Paris.
1905
Russian composer Dmitri
Shostakovitch born in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1914
Poet John Berryman (The Dream Songs)
born in McAlester, Oklahoma.
1930
Author Harold Brodkey
(The Runaway
Soul) born in Staunton, Illinois.
1932
Polish fencer and secret agent Jerzy
Pawłowski born in Warsaw, Poland.
One of the world's greatest
Olympic sabre fencers, Pawlowski was also an double agent for the CIA
during the height of the Cold War.
He could have defected to the West
but chose to remain in Poland where he worked as a painter and faith
healer.
1941
Author Anne Tyler (The
Accidental Tourist) born in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
1948
Poet & biographer Daniel Mark
Epstein born in Washington D. C.
1957
Death comes for mob boss Albert
Anastasia while sitting in the barber chair at the Park Sheraton
Hotel in Manhattan.
He lunges for his assailants but it is only
their reflection in the barbers mirror.
1999
Golfer Payne Stewart and
5 others are killed in a Learjet crash in South Dakota.
The plane lost pressure on
takeoff from Orlando, Florida causing those on board to lose
consciousness.
The plane continued to fly for four hours on
auto-pilot before crashing in a field near Aberdeen, South
Dakota.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"If you bow at all, bow low." ~ Chinese Proverb
