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Today is Day 334 of 2024
1832
Author Louisa May
Alcott (Little
Women) born in Germantown, Pennsylvania.
1877
Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first
time.
1895
Film choreographer Busby Berkeley born
in Los Angeles.
1898
Irish
scholar and author C.
S. Lewis (Chronicles of
Narnia) born in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1908
Civil Rights
leader Adam
Clayton Powell Jr. born in New Haven, Connecticutt.
1927
The Voice of
the Los Angeles Dodgers - Vin Scully born in the
Bronx< New York.
1933
Blues singer
John Mayall born
near Manchester, England.
Artist James Rosenquist born in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
1939
Comedian, actor and writer Peter
Bergman (Firesign Theater) born in Cleveland, Ohio.
1954
Film maker
Joel Coen (The Big Lebowski)
born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1963
One week
after the assassination of President Kennedy,
new President Lyndon B Johnson
establishes the Warren
Commission, headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, to
investigate the assassination.
1972
Atari announces the
release of Pong, the
first commercially successful video game.
1981
Actress Natalie Wood (West Side
Story) drowns while on a weekend boating trip off of Catalina
Island.
2001
Former Beatle George Harrison
dies of cancer.
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