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Today is Day 350 of 2024
1832
Civil engineer Gustave Eiffel born in Dijon, France.
1890
American Indian leader Sitting Bull killed at Grand River, South Dakota, while in an Army jail.
The soldiers maintained he was trying to escape.
1910
Record producer John Hammond born in New York City.
Hammond was instrumental in starting the careers of such artists as Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Benny Goodman, Harry James, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Big Joe Turner, Pete Seeger, Aretha Franklin, George Benson, Leonard Cohen and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
1911
Jazz pianist Stan Kenton born in Wichita, Kansas.
1913
American poet Muriel Rukeyser born in New York City.
1939
Gone with the Wind premieres at Loew's Grand Theatre in Atlanta, Georgia.
1944
En route to Paris, band leader Glenn Miller vanishes in a flight over the English Channel.
1965
launches from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
It will it rendezvous with Gemini 7 later.
1966
Walt Disney dies in Burbank, California.
This Day at the New Yorker
Proverb:
"With a helper a thousand things are possible." ~ Russian Proverb
