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Today is Day 314 of 2024
1620
Pilgrims aboard
the Mayflower sight
land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1683
King George
II of Great Britain born in Leine Palace, Hanover, Germany.
1799
The Coup of
18 Brumaire begins
in Paris, marking Napoleon's
rise to power and the end of the French Revolution.
1816
Harriet Westbrook, the first wife of the poet Percy
Shelley, takes her own life by drowning herself in the Serpentine.
She was despondent over the way Shelley, then living with Mary Godwin, had
treated her.
1818
Ivan Turgenev (Fathers &
Sons) born in Orel, Russia.
1841
King Edward VII of the
United Kingdom born in Buckingham Palace, London, England.
1853
Architect Stanford White
(co-founded McKim, Mead &
White) born in New York City.
1888
Jack the Ripper
murders his last victim, Mary Kelly in
Miller's Court.
1892
Silent
screen sctress Mabel
Normand born in New Brighton, New York.
1914
Film star Hedy Lamarr born in
Vienna.
1915
Illustrator
André
François born in Timişoara, Romania.
He did over 50 covers
for the New Yorker during his career.
1923
Poet James Schuyler
born in Chicago. Illinois.
1924
Photographer
Robert Frank born
in Zürich, Switzerland.
1928 
American poet Anne Sexton born in
Newton, Massachusetts.
1938
Kristallnacht the
Night of Broken Glass, the night when German Nazis coordinated a
nationwide attack on Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues.
It's
generally considered the official beginning of the Holocaust.
1953
Welsh poet
Dylan Thomas dies
in New York's Chelsea Hotel after drinking 18 martinis.
1967
The first
issue of Rolling
Stone magazine goes on sale.
1989
East Germany
opens the checkpoints in the Berlin Wall which
ultimately leads to the destruction of this symbol of the Cold War.
Square One
Ranch
Photo of the Day
Pink cloudy afternoon in Glendale AZ. Taken
20211109.
Click on the photo for a larger view.
Photo available
Here
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
“Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.” ~ Anne Sexton
