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Today is Day 309 of 2024
1501
Catherine of
Aragon meets Arthur
Tudor, Henry
VIII's older brother.
She will marry both of them.
1650
King William
III of England, Prince of Orange, King of England, Scotland and
Ireland born in Binnenhof, The Hague, Dutch Republic.
1783
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart's Symphony
No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria.
1879
American humorist Will Rogers born at
Dog Iron Ranch in Oologah, Oklahoma.
1906
Writer Sterling North
(Rascal) born
in Edgerton, Wisconsin.
1916
Newscaster Walter Cronkite
born in St. Joseph, Missouri .
1919
Character actor Martin Balsam (Psycho) born
in The Bronx, New York.
1922
An expedition led by Howard Carter
discovers the tomb of Tutankhamen.
1936
Poet C. K. Williams
born in Newark, New Jersey.
1940
Blues singer Delbert
McClinton born in Lubbuck, Texas.
1946
Photographer
Robert
Mapplethorpe born in Floral Park, New York.
1979
Ninety people are taken hostage in
American embassy in Teheran.
1995
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
assassinated by a Jewish extremist while attending a peace rally.
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