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Today is Day 323 of 2024
1247
According to legend, Robin Hood died at the
Priory of
Kirklees on this day.
1307
Legendary
archer and Swiss patriot William Tell shoots
an apple from his son's head.
1421
St
Elizabeth's flood occurs when a seawall at the Zuiderzee dike breaks
in the Netherlands killing up to 10,000 people.
1789
French photography pioneer Louis Daguerre
born in Cormeilles-en-Parisis.
1836
Playwright,
poet, and illustrator W. S. Gilbert (The Mikado) born in
London, England.
1865
Mark Twain's story,
The Celebrated Jumping
Frog of Calaveras County, is published in the New York Saturday
Press.
1882
Painter,
writer and critic Wyndham Lewis born in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada.
1901
Statistician George Gallup (Gallup Poll)
born in Jefferson, Iowa.
1923
First
American in space, Astronaut Alan Shepard born
in Derry, New Hampshire.
1926
George Bernard
Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize.
Saying, I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a
fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
1928
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts
in NY in Steamboat Willie.
1939
Author & poet
Margaret
Atwood (The Blind Assassin) born in Ottawa, Canada.
1978
913
people take their lives in a mass suicide lead by cult leader Jim Jones in Jonestown,
Guyana.
1999
12 people were killed and 28 injured when a huge
bonfire under
construction collapses at Texas A&M.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"There is no bad weather, only bad clothing." ~ Norse Proverb
