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Today is Day 324 of 2024
1600
King Charles I of
England born Dunfermline Palace, Dunfermline, Scotland.
1703
French
prisoner Man
in the Iron Mask dies after 34 years of captivity.
1831
Twentieth
President of the US, James Garfield
born in Orange Township, Ohio.
1861
Julia Ward Howe
writes The
Battle Hymn of the Republic.
1863
During the dedication of the Soldiers' National
Cemetery, president Abraham Lincoln
gives his famous Gettysburg
Address four months after the battle.
1889
Character
actor Clifton
Webb (Laura) born in
Indianapolis, Indiana.
1899
Poet Allen Tate born in
Winchester, Kentucky.
He was the 2nd Poet
Laureate from 1943 to 1944 and the winner of the Bollingen Prize for
Poetry in 1957.
1915
Labor
organizer, folk-poet Joe
Hill killed by firing squad in Utah.
1920
Actress Gene Tierney (Laura) born in
Brooklyn.
1924
Poet and
painter Jane
Freilicher born in Brooklyn, New York.
1936
Talk show
host and personality Dick Cavett (The Dick Cavett
Show) born in Gibbon, Nebraska.
1942
Polish
author and painter Bruno Schultz (The Street of
Crocodiles) shot in the back of the head by a German SS officer on a
street of the Drohobycz ghetto.
Poet Sharon Olds born in San Francisco, California.
1955
The National Review
publishes its first issue.
This Day at the New Yorker
