Costello's (also known as Tim's) was a bar and restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, from 1929 to 1992. The bar operated at several locations near the intersection of East 44th Street and Third Avenue. Costello's was known as a drinking spot for journalists with the New York Daily News, writers with The New Yorker, novelists, and cartoonists, including the author Ernest Hemingway, the cartoonist James Thurber, the journalist John McNulty, the poet Brendan Behan, the short- story writer John O'Hara, and the writers Maeve Brennan and A. J. Liebling. The bar is also known for having been home to a wall where Thurber drew a cartoon depiction of the "Battle of the Sexes" at some point between 1934 and 1935; the cartoon was destroyed, illustrated again, and then lost in the 1990s. A wall illustrated in 1976 by several cartoonists, including Bill Gallo, Stan Lee, Mort Walker, Al Jaffee, Sergio Aragonés, and Dik Browne, is still on display at the bar's final location.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1969:

Apollo 12 launched from the Kennedy Space Center, becoming the second crewed flight to land on the Moon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_12

1990:

Music producer Frank Farian admitted that the German R&B; duo Milli Vanilli did not sing the vocals on their album Girl You Know It's True. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milli_Vanilli

1992:

In poor conditions caused by Cyclone Forrest, Vietnam Airlines Flight 474 crashed near Nha Trang, killing 30 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Forrest

2003:

Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discovered the trans-Neptunian object Sedna. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedna_%28dwarf_planet%29

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

mind's ear: (idiomatic) The mental faculty or inner sense with which one produces or reproduces imagined or recalled sounds solely within the mind; the supposed organ within the mind which experiences such sounds. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mind%27s_ear

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.   --Jawaharlal Nehru https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jawaharlal_Nehru