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Today is Day 336 of 2024
1135
Death of Henry I of
England in Saint-Denis-en-Lyons, Normandy, France.
1761
French
wax-modeller Madame
Tussaud was born Strasbourg.
1847
Poetaster Julia A. Moore
born in Plainfield Township, Kent County, Michigan.
1860
The first
installment of Charles Dickens'
Great
Expectations is published.
1886
Mystery writer
Rex Stout born in
Noblesville, Indiana.
He created the Nero Wolfe detective
series.
1887
The first
appearnce of detective Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan
Doyle is published in Beeton&#
39;s Christmas Annual.
The novel is called A Study in
Scarlet.
1923
Comedian/actor
Dick Shawn (The
Producers) born in Buffalo, New York.
1935
Actor/Director
Woody Allen (Manhattan)
born in Brooklyn, New York.
1945
Chanteuse and
actress Bette
Midler born in Honolulu.
1948
The body of an
unidentified man is found in Adelaide, Australia beach and becomes the
unsolved Taman
Shud case.
It includes elements such as an undetectable poison
and a secret code in a very rare book.
1949
Film comic Richard Pryor born
in Peoria, Illinois.
1950
Illustrator
and painter Gary
Panter(designer of Pee Wee's
Playhouse) born in Durant, Oklahoma.
1953
First issue of Playboy published.
1955
Seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to
give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the
city's segregation laws.
this is the begining of the Montgomery Bus
Boycott.
1956
Singer-
songwriter Julee
Cruise (Twin
Peaks soundtrack) born in Creston, Iowa.
1966
The first
annual Yule Goat in
Gävle,
Sweden is erected.
It will become the victim of arson this and in many subsequent years.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"A wise man hears one word and understands two." ~ Yiddish Proverb
