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Today is Day 332 of 2024
1810
The Berners Street
hoax was perpetrated by practical joker, composer and man of
letters, Theodore
Hook in London.
1896
Also sprach Zarathoustra by Richard Strauss
is first performed in Frankfurt, Germany.
1909
Novelist,
screenwriter, poet and critic James Agee (A Death in the
Family) born in Knoxville, Tennessee.
1917
Television
host Buffalo Bob
Smith (Howdy
Doody) born in Buffalo, New York.
1924
The first Macy
's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held in New York City.
1937
Journalist Gail Sheehy born in
Mamaroneck, New York.
1940
Actor, martial
artist, and screenwriter, Bruce Lee (Way of the
Dragon) born in San Francisco.
1942
Guitarist, singer and songwriter Jimi Hendrix born in
Seattle, Washington.
1978
San
Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk & mayor George Moscone are
assassinated by ex-supervisor Dan White.
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