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Today is Day 337 of 2024
1804
Napoleon crowns
himself Emperor of France in Notre Dame
Cathedral by placing the crown of Charlemagne on his own
head.
1852
The Second French
Empire is established with Louis Napoleon as
emperor Napoleon III.
1859
Abolitionist
John
Brown hanged for his occupation the U.S. arsenal at Harpers
Ferry.
French painter Georges Seurat (Sunday Afternoon on
the Island of la Grande Jatte) born in Paris.
1867
Charles Dickens
gave the first reading of his final American tour.
1891
German
expressionist Otto Dix
born in Unternhaus, Germany.
1923
Soprano Maria Callas born in
New York City.
1927
The Ford Motor
Company introduces the Ford
Model A automobile.
This model replaces the 19 year run of the
Ford Model
T.
1942
Physicist Enrico Fermi and his
team conducted the first nuclear reaction under the grand stands of Stagg field at the University of
Chicago.
A bronze sculpture by Henry Moore called Nuclear
Energy commemorates the spot.
1948
Author T. Coraghessan
Boyle (The Road to
Wellville) born in Peekskill, New York.
1954
The United
States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy
for conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and
disrepute.
1956
The yacht Granma reaches the
shores of Cuba after leaving Veracruz, Mexico.
Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80
other members of the 26th of July
Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
1961
Cuban leader
Fidel Castro
declares that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
“Everyone sees noon at his doorstep.” ~ French Proverb
