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Today is Day 322 of 2024
1558
Elizabeth
I, daughter of Henry VIII
and Anne Boleyn,
ascends to the English throne on the death of Queen Mary
I.
This marks the beginning of the Elizabethan Era
in English history.
1875
The American
Theosophical Society was founded by Mme
Blavatsky.
1916
Author Shelby Foote (The Civil
War: A Narrative) born in Greenville, Mississippi.
1919
Sylvia Beach opened
her English-language book store,
Shakespeare & Co, in Paris.
1937
Comedian Peter Cook (Bedazzled)
born in Torquay, Devon, England.
1938
Folksinger
Gordon
Lightfoot (
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald) born in Orillia, Canada.
1942
Film
director Martin
Scorsese (Taxi
Driver) born in New York.
1950
Lhamo Dondrub is
officially named the 14th Dalai Lama.
1973
President Richard Nixon
declares in a press conference, “I'm not a crook.”
2019
The first
known case of COVID-19
is detected 55-year-old man who had visited a wet market in Wuhan,
China.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right." ~ Eskimo Proverb
