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Today is Day 125 of 2024



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1655
Inventor of the piano, Bartolomeo Cristofori, born in Padua, Italy.
In Italian, the word for soft, which his invention was able to play, is piano.

1886
The Haymarket Square Bombing kills seven in Chicago, Illinois.

1891
Sherlock Holmes falls to his presumed death at Reichenbach Falls, Switzerland during a struggle with his enemy Professor Moriarty.

1924

VIII Summer Olympics open in Paris, France.

1929
Actress Audrey Hepburn (Breakfast at Tiffany's) born in Brussels, Belgium

1937
Surf guitarist Dick Dale born in Boston, Massachusetts.

1958
Artist Keith Haring born in Reading, Pennsylvania.

1970

Four students killed at Kent State University by National Guard troops sent to quell an anti-war riot.


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Proverb:
"The older the fiddle the sweeter the tune." ~ Irish Proverb

        


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