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Today is Day 327 of 2024
1819
Author George Eliot (Silas Marner) born
in Nuneaton, England.
1888
Tarzan of the
Apes, according to Edgar Rice
Burroughs novel, is born.
1890
French
soldier, writer, and statesman Charles de
Gaulle born in Lille, France.
1899
Composer Hoagy Carmichael
born in Bloomington Ind.
Ian Fleming wrote
that Carmichael was what his famous character James Bond looked
like.
1916
Novelist Jack London (Call of the Wild)
died on his sleeping porch
perhaps of a morphine overdose at the age of 40 in Santa Rosa,
California.
1921
Comedian Rodney
Dangerfield born in Deer Park, New York.
1940
Director and
member of the comedy troupe Monty Pythons Flying
Circus, Terry
Gilliam (Brazil), born in
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1963 
President John F. Kennedy
assassinated while riding in a motorcade through downtown Dallas,
Texas.
1968
The Beatles release their
double album called The Beatles (The White
Album).
1995
Toy Story, the first
feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery
(CGI/a>),
is released.
This Day at the New Yorker
