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Today is Day 316 of 2024
Veterans Day - it used
to be called Armistice Day which
marked the secession of fighting on the western front during WWI at the
"eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month" of
1918.
1572
Astronomer,
astrologer, and alchemist Tycho Brahe observes
supernova SN 1572.
1821
Russian
novelist Fyodor
Dostoyevsky (Crime and
Punishment) born in Moscow.
1831
American
slave, Nat Turner,
who believed he was called by God to liberate his people, is hanged
after a slave uprising in Jerusalem, Virginia, that saw 57 whites
slaughtered.
1880
Australian
bushranger Ned Kelly
is hanged in the Melbourne Gaol.
1889
The State of Washington is
admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.
1898
Film
director René
Clair (The
Ghost Goes West) born in Paris.
1904
Diplomat,
lawyer and alleged Soviet spy Alger Hiss born in
Baltimore, Maryland.
1906
Monologuist
Brother
Theodore born in Dusseldorf, Germany.
He called his
stream-of-consciousness dialogues "stand-up tragedy".
1918
WWI comes to an end
when an armistice agreement is signed between the Germans and the Allies
in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne.
1920
Ian Fleming's
fictional super spy James Bond born in the
German city of Wattenscheid.
1922
Novelist Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse
Five) born in Indianapolis.
1925
Comedian Jonathan Winters
born in Bellbrook, Ohio.
1927
Jazz
musician Mose
Allison born in Tippo, Mississippi.
1928
Mexican
author Carlos
Fuentes (The Old
Gringo) born in Panama City.
1934
Actress Bibi Andersson (Scenes From a
Marriage) born Stockholm, Sweden.
1959
The first episode of The
Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends airs.
1961
Joseph Heller's Catch-22
published.
1972
Bassist Berry Oakley (The Allman
Brothers Band) dies in a motorcycle accident not far from where his
bandmate Duane
Allman had died in a similar accident a year earlier.
Square One
Ranch
Photo of the Day
Sunset at SQ1. Taken
20221111.
Click on the photo for a larger view.
Photo available
Here
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"Worry is like a rockin' horse. It's something to do that don't get you nowhere." ~ Old West Proverb
