Yesterday C-Note's Almanac Tomorrow



1857
Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal published.

1876

General George Custer and 264 members of the 7th U.S. Cavalry were killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

1903
Writer George Orwell (1984) born in Motihari, India.

1906
Harry K. Thaw shoots American architect Stanford White on the roof of New York’s old Madison Square Garden, which White had designed.
Thaw shot White due to jealousy over the relationship between his wife, Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw, a former showgirl and White.

1941
Joe DiMaggio continues his baseball hitting streak to 45 straight games with a home run breaking the record set by Wee Willie Keeler in 1897.

1944
The comic strip of Krazy Kat by George Herriman was published.

1945
Singer-songwriter Carly Simonborn in New York City.

1950
The Korean War begins when forces from North Korea cross the 38th parallel dividing North from South Korea.

1967
The Beatles record "All You Need Is Love" during a global telecast called Our World.

2009
Singer Michael Jackson dies of a heart attack in Los Angeles



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French Republican Calendar
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