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Today is Day 317 of 2024
1840
French sculptor Auguste Rodin (The Thinker) born in
Paris.
1859
Jules
Léotard “the daring young man on the
flying trapeze” debuts with the Cirque Napoléon in
Paris.
1906
Delta blues
guitarist and singer Booker T. Washington
"Bukka" White born somewhere between Aberdeen and Houston,
Mississippi.
1912
The bodies
of Captain
Robert Scott and his companions are found in a tent in Antarctica,
only 11 miles from a food cache.
1915
French
literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician Roland Barthes
born in Cherbourg-Octeville, France.
1927
Uncle Joe Stalin becomes
undisputed chief of the Soviet Union with the expulsion of Leon Trotsky from
Soviet Communist Party.
1929
Actress/Princess Grace Kelly born in
Philadelphia, Pa.
1933
Hugh Gray takes the first known photos allegedly of the Loch Ness
Monster.
1934
Con man & cult
leader Charles
Manson born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1935
Poet Theodore Roethke
hospitalized for observation after spending the night in the Michigan
woods, where he loses a shoe and shares a mystical experience with a
tree.
He later said that he had learned the secret of ballet dancer
Nijinsky.
1936
The San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge opens for
traffic.
1945
Singer-songwriter Neil Young (Harvest) born in Toronto, Ontario.
1955
The day
returned to in the movie Back to the
Future.
1966
Donovan's song “Mellow Yellow”
released.
1970
The Doors appear for the
last time with Jim
Morrison as lead singer in New Orleans.
Square One Ranch
Photo of
the Day
Humingbird perched at Square One Ranch. Taken
20101112.
Click on the photo for a larger view.
Photo available
Here
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
“A fool dreams of wealth; a wise man, of happiness.” – Turkish Proverb
