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Today is Day 306 of 2024
Dia de los Muertos
The Day of the Dead - Sonoran
Desert Holiday.
1512
Artist Michelangelo unveils
his 5,808-square-foot masterpiece, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in
the Vatican.
1604
William
Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is performed for the first time.
1611
William
Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time.
1871
Author Stephen Crane (The Red
Badge of Courage) born in Newark, NJ.
1880
Sportswriter Grantland Rice
born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
1889
Dada artist and
photographer Hannah Höch born in Gotha, German Empire.
1894
Buffalo Bill Cody,
Annie Oakley,
and 15 Indians from the Wild West Show
are filmed by Thomas Edison.
at the Black Maria
Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
1927
Documentary filmmaker Marcel Ophüls (Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times
of Klaus Barbie) born in Frankfurt, Germany.
1938
Beginning date of Malcolm Lowry's
novel Under the
Volcano.
Seabiscuit defeats Triple Crown winner War Admiral in a match race deemed the match of the century in horse racing.
1941
Photographer Ansel Adams takes a
picture called Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico.
It will become one of the most
famous images in the history of photography.
1950
Puerto Rican nationalists attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman
at Blair House.
1957
Singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett born in
Klein, Texas.
1972
Poet Ezra Pound dies in
Venice, Italy.
"In a Station of the Metro
The
apparition of these faces in the crowd :
Petals on a wet, black
bough."
~ Ezra Pound
Square One
Ranch
Photo of the Day
Monarch butterflies polinating lantana. Taken 20141101.
Click on the photo for a
larger view.
Photo available Here
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
“Even a fool has at least one talent.” – Japanese Proverb
