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Today is Day 329 of 2024
1632
Philosopher
and scholar Baruch
Spinoza born in The Hague.
1642
Explorer for
the Dutch
East India Company Abel Tasman becomes
the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's
Land which will later be called Tasmania.
1713
Author Laurence Sterne (Tristram Shandy)
born in Clonmel, Ireland.
1784
Twelfth
President of the US, Zachary Taylor born
in Orange County, Virginia.
1793
The French
revolutionary calendar becomes operative.
1859
Charles Darwin
publishes On the
Origin of Species, the anniversary of which is sometimes called Evolution
Day.
1864
French
painter Henri
Toulouse-Lautrec born in Albi, France.
1868
American
composer Scott
Joplin born near Linden, Texas.
1877
The novel
Black Beauty by
Anna Sewell is
published.
This will be Miss Sewell's first and only novel
She
will die 5 months after publication from tuberculosis.
1925
Conservative
author and publisher of the National Review
William F.
Buckley born in New York.
1944
Wharhol
Superstar Candy
Darling (Flesh) born
Forest Hills, Queens, New York.
1963
Lee Harvey
Oswald killed in the Dallas County jail by Jack Ruby.
First
live murder on TV.
1971
Hijacker D.B. Cooper
parachutes from a Northwest Airlines 727 over Washington State with
$200,000 in ransom.
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