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Today is Day 320 of 2024


1864
Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman' s March to the Sea during the American Civil War.

1887

Artist Georgia O'Keeffe born Sun Prairie, Wisconsin.


Poet Marianne Moore born St Louis, Missouri.

1932
Singer Petula Clark (Downtown) born in Epsom, Surrey, England.

1937
Cartoonist Al Capp (Lil' Abner) creates Sadie Hawkins Day which occurs the first Saturday after November 9th.

1959
Richard Hickock & Perry Smith kill the Clutter family in rural Kansas.
The murders become the basis for Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.


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Proverb:
"The bird who has eaten cannot fly with the bird that is hungry." – Omaha Proverb

        


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