Yesterday C-Note's Almanac Tomorrow



1775

Paul Revere rides from Charleston to Lexington to warn of the coming British.

1906
San Francisco earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.8 on the Richter scale, destroyed much of San Francisco, California.

1923
Yankee Stadium opened in New York City.

1925
Poet Bob Kaufman born in New Orleans. After witnessing the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Kaufman took a vow of silence, which it is said was unbroken until the end of the Vietnam War.

1946
Actress Hayley Mills born in London.

1958
Poet Ezra Pound is released from an insane asylum after 12 years.
The hospital's superintendent agreed to supported the United States federal court ruling as long as there was an affidavit saying Pound was permanently and incurably insane.

1963
Talk show host Conan O'Brien born in Brookline, Massachusetts.



Today from Chamber's Book of Days


French Republican Calendar
Germinal 29 Myrtille