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Today is Day 326 of 2024
1694
French
writer and thinker Voltaire (Candide) born in Paris, Kingdom of France.
He came to the conclusion that the secret of happiness is to cultivate
one's own garden.
1789 
North Carolina
becomes the 12th U.S. state.
1861
Old West
character Tom Horn
born in Scotland County, Missouri.
Horn was variously a scout, hired
gunman, Pinkerton agent, range detective, cowboy, and soldier.
1898 
Belgian surrealist artist
René Magritte
born in Lessines, Belgium.
1902
Yiddish
author and Nobel Prize laureate Isaac Bashevis
Singer (A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories) born in Leoncin,
Poland.
1904
Jazz
saxaphonist Coleman
Hawkins born in Saint Joseph, Missouri.
1953
The Natural
History Museum announces that the Piltdown Man skull
is a hoax.
Once thought to be one of the oldest hominid when it was
discovered in a gravel pit in Piltdown, England.
The skull fragments
is now considered to one of the greatest forgeries in scientific
history.
1980 
Steely
Dan's album Gaucho is
released.
This Day at the New Yorker
