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Today is Day 348 of 2024
1784
Poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer Dr. Samuel Johnson dies at the age of 75 in London England.
1862
Battle of Fredericksburg begins.
With the Confederate forces safe within the small city of Fredericksburg, Virginia,
the Union commander, Gen. Ambrose Burnside, orders a series of attacks across the Rappahannock river, which led to devastating Federal losses.
1911
Poet Kenneth Patchen born in Niles, Ohio.
1928
George Gershwin's An American in Paris is first performed in Carnegie Hall.
1972
The last humans to set foot on the Moon to date, Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin their final moonwalk on Apollo 17.
2003
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein captured near his home town of Tikrit.
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Photo of the Day
Good Freda begging for table scraps 12 days before Christmas. Taken 20131213.
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This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"Pay attention to the whispers, so we won't have to listen to the screams." ~ Cherokee Proverb
