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TODAY - Mar 19, 2024

Thought of the Day

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

Today's Birthday

David Livingstone
David Livingstone Missionary, Scottish(1813)

Scottish missionary and physician and the first white man to discovered the Victoria Falls.

 
Philip Roth
Philip Roth Author, American(1933)

An American author best known for Portony's Complaint in 1957.

 
Ursula Andress
Ursula Andress Actress, Swiss(1936)

Swiss actor and Model.

 
Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis Actor, American(1936)

An American singer, Producer, actor.

 
Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp Gunfighter, American(1848)

An American gunfighter and a law enforcement officer

This day in History

1687

The French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle is murdered on the banks of the Rio Brazos (in modern Texas) by his mutinous men.

1823

Emperor Agustin de Iturbide of Mexico is forced to abdicate by insurgents.

1831

The first recorded bank robbery in history takes place in New York City. The bank robbers make off with about $245,000, some of which is later recovered.

1920

The United States Senate refuses to ratify the Treaty of Versailles for the second time; the United States does not join the League of Nations.

1977

CBS broadcasts the final episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."

1995

Michael Jordan returns to professional basketball after a 17-month period of retirement.

2008

British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke dies at the age of 90.

Wyatt Earp (1848-1929)

Wyatt Earp

An American gunfighter and a law enforcement officer, who was born on March 19, 1848. As a young man Earp was a railroad construction worker, buffalo hunter, surveyor, and policeman. Earp became chief deputy marshal in 1876 of Dodge City, Kansas, a lawless frontier town. Within a year, having brought relative peace to Dodge City, he moved on to Deadwood in the Dakota Territory. He returned to Dodge City in 1878, and in 1879 he settled in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. There he furthered his reputation as a gunfighter, first as deputy sheriff of Pima County and later as deputy United States marshal for the entire Arizona Territory. In October 1881 Earp participated in the famous O.K. Corral gunfight at Tombstone. The gunfight at the O.K. Corral is celebrated in several Hollywood motion pictures, with the Clantons always the villains. Earp left Tombstone in 1882, having killed several well-known outlaws in gunfights to avenge the ambush slaying of his brother Morgan. He finally settled in California, where he spent his remaining years in a variety of occupations, including saloonkeeper and rancher. He died in Los Angeles on January 13, 1929.

Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal