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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.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"The bird who has eaten cannot fly with the bird that is hungry." – Omaha Proverb
