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Today is Day 319 of 2024
1650
King William
III born in Binnenhof, The Hague, Dutch Republic.
1840
Impressionist artist Claude Monet born in
Paris.
1851
Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick published in
the United States.
1889
Journalist Nellie Bly begins a
successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days.
She completes the trip
in 72 days.
1900
American
composer Aaron
Copland born in Brooklyn, New York.
1906
Silent screen star, dancer, courtesan and memoirist -
Louise Brooks
born in Cherryvale, Kansas.
Noted for popularizing the bobbed style
haircut in the 1920's.
1907
New Yorker
Cartoonist and author William Steig born in New York City.
He wrote and illustrated
the children's book Shrek!.
Author Astrid Lindgren (Pipi Longstocking) born in Vimmerby, Sweden.
1909
Wisconsin
Senator Joe
“Tailgunner Joe” McCarthy born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin.
It is he who the term “McCarthyism”
derives.
1916
Short story
writer Saki was killed
by a German sniper while sheltering in a shell crater near
Beaumont-Hamel, France, during the Battle of the Ancre.
His last
words were reportedly "Put that bloody cigarette out!"
1947
Satirist and journalist P. J. O'Rourke
(Parliament
of Whores) born in Toledo, Ohio.
1969
NASA
launches Apollo 12,
the second mission to the surface of the Moon.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"The devil knows more due to being old than from being the devil." ~ Spanish Proverb
