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Today is Day 313 of 2024
1519
Spanish
conquistador, Hernán
Cortés enters Tenochtitlán,
the Aztec capital, for the first time.
1656
English
astronomer and mathematician Edmond Halley born
in Haggerston, Middlesex, England.
He was the second Astronomer Royal
of Britain.
Best known for computing the orbit of Halley's Comet.
1674
Feast day of English poet
John Milton (Paradise Lost).
1847
Author Bram Stoker (Dracula) born in
Dublin.
1883
American artist Charles Demuth
born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
1889
Montana becomes the 41st
U.S. state.
1900
Writer Margaret
Mitchell (Gone With the
Wind) born in Atlanta, Georgia.
1923
Adolf Hitler tries to
take over the Bavarian state government in what is called the Beer Hall Putsch
in Munich.
It fails and Hitler is sent to prison.
1939
German
dictator Adolf
Hitler escapes an assassination attempt while celebrating the 16th
anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch
in Munich.
1954
Singer Rickie Lee Jones
born in Chicago.
1973
The right ear
of kidnapped teen John Paul Getty
III is delivered to an Italian newspaper together with a ransom
note.
If the kidnappers didn't get the money, they would return him
in pieces.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"A blacksnake knows the way to the hen house." ~ Southern Proverb
