On This Day

PJ O’Rourke, writer, 64;

Feast day of St Laurence O’Toole, St Adeotus Aribert, St Nicholas Tavelic, St Dubricius or Dyfrig, St Stephen of Como, and St Peter of Narbonne.

1770: Scottish explorer James Bruce discovered the source of the Blue Nile in NE Ethiopia, then considered the main stream of the Nile. 1840: Impressionist painter Claude Monet was born in Paris.