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Today is Day 325 of 2024
1820
An 80-ton
sperm whale attacks and sinks a Nantucket whaling ship called the Essex.
Herman Melville's
novel Moby-Dick was
inspired by this story.
1866
The rotary crank bicycle is patented, by
Pierre Lallemont, in Paris.
These machines incorporated the crank
directly to the front wheel.
1900
Cartoonist
Chester Gould (Dick Tracy) born in
Pawnee, Oklahoma.
1920
Photographer
Marrianne
Breslauer born in Berlin.
1925
Politician Robert F.
Kennedy born in Brookline, Massachusetts.
1936
Novelist Don DeLillo (Libra) born in New
York City
1940
Singer-songwriter and pianist Dr. John (Gris Gris) born in New
Orleans.
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