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Today is Day 311 of 2024
1699
Lemuel
Gulliver arrived in Lilliput in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's
Travels.
1814
Adolphe Sax, the
inventor of the saxophone, born in Dinant, Belgium.
1854
Composer and
band leader John
Philip Sousa born in Washington, D.C.
1860
Abraham Lincoln
elected president of the United States.
1861
Jefferson Davis
is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1865
The CSS Shenandoah is
the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the
globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 vessels.
1887
Baseball Hall of famer Walter Johnson, who
had perhaps the greatest fastball in the history of the game, born in
Humboldt, Kansas.
1892
Co-founder and
editor-in chief of the New Yorker, Harold Ross born in
Aspen, Colorado.
Ross would edit every issue of the New Yorker from
its inception in 1925 to his death in 1951 some 1399 issues.
1931
Director and
comedian Mike
Nichols (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) born in Berlin.
Square One
Ranch
Photo of the Day
Carving of Jack Turniphead for Halloween.
He is starting to get his character lines as he dries out. Taken 20231106.
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larger view.
Photo available Here
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"You can't keep trouble from coming, but you don't have to give it a chair to sit on." ~ New England Proverb
