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Today is Day 315 of 2024
1483 
Theologian, priest, author, composer, Augustinian monk
and leader of the Protestant
Reformation Martin Luther born
in Eisleben, County of Mansfeld, Holy Roman Empire.
1577
Poet
Jacob Cats born in
Brouwershaven, Netherlands.
He is best known for creating emblem books.
1697
Painter and
illustrator William Hogarth
born in London.
1728
Author, poet,
and playwright Oliver Goldsmith
(The Vicar
of Wakefield) born in either Ballymahon, County Longford, Kingdom of
Ireland, or Elphin, County Roscommon, Kingdom of Ireland.
1759
Poet and
playwright Friedrich
Schiller born in Marbach am Neckar, Germany.
1793
A Goddess of Reason
is proclaimed by the French Convention.
1871
Henry Morton
Stanley locates David
Livingstone near Ujiji in central Africa.
Stanley famously
greeted him with the words, Dr. Livingstone, I presume?.
1879
American
poet Vachel
Lindsay (
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Night) born in Springfield,
Illinois.
1889
Character
actor Claude
Rains (The
Invisible Man)born in London, England.
He is best known for
playing cultured villains.
1893
Author John P. Marquand
(Mr Moto) born in
Wilmington, Delaware.
1913
Poet Karl Shapiro born in
New York City.
He was named fifth Poet
Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in
1946.
1923
Hachikõ, a famous
Japanese Akita dog, born in Õdate, Japan.
He is remembered for
his remarkable loyalty to his owner Hidesaburō Ueno.
Hachikõ would dutifully wait every evening at the train station
for his owner to return from work.
This continued for over nine
years following Ueno's death.
1925
Welsh actor
Richard Burton
(Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe) born in Pontrhydyfen,
Wales.
1928
Film
composer, and conductor Ennio Morricone
(The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly) born in Rome,
Italy.
1975
The
freighter SS
Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all
29 crew members.
1989
Germans gather at the Berlin Wall and start
to demolish it.
2001
Feast day of
novelist and merry prankster
Ken Kesey (Sometimes a
Great Notion) in Eugene, Oregon.
Square One Ranch
Photo of the
Day
Sunset at Square One Ranch. Taken 20131110.
Click on the photo for a
larger view.
Photo available Here
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
“Who chases two rabbits catches neither.” ~ Japanese Proverb
