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9th among the 18 economies in Latin America and the Caribbean and 74th out of 132 countries overall. The report highlights E-participation and Government's online service as an area of weakness to greater innovation. Broadband penetration in Jamaica stood at 77.7% in March 2021. Via the National Broadband Initiative, t... | among the 18 economies in Latin America and the Caribbean and 74th out of 132 countries overall. The report highlights E-participation and Government's online service as an area of weakness to greater innovation. Broadband penetration in Jamaica stood at 77.7% in March 2021. Via the National Broadband Initiative, the J... |
are collectively designated as Svalbard and Jan Mayen, with the two-letter country code "SJ". Natural resources Jan Mayen Island has one exploitable natural resource, gravel, from the site at Trongskaret. Other than this, economic activity is limited to providing services for employees of Norway's radio communications ... | In January the Noordsche Compagnie (Northern Company), modelled on the Dutch East India Company, had been established to support Dutch whaling in the Arctic. Two of its ships, financed by merchants from Amsterdam and Enkhuizen, reached Jan Mayen in July 1614. The captains of these ships—Jan Jacobszoon May van Schellink... |
territories that are in the southern hemisphere (the other is American Samoa). Located only south of the equator, Jarvis has no known natural freshwater lens and scant rainfall. This creates a very bleak, flat landscape without any plants larger than shrubs. There is no evidence that the island has ever supported a sel... | world. The low-lying coral island has long been noted as hard to sight from small ships and is surrounded by a narrow fringing reef. Jarvis Island is one of two United States territories that are in the southern hemisphere (the other is American Samoa). Located only south of the equator, Jarvis has no known natural fre... |
Channel Islands were one of the last places in Europe to be liberated. 9 May is celebrated as the island's Liberation Day, where there are celebrations in Liberation Square. Escalation in a fishing-rights dispute between the Jersey government and French fishers led to an international dispute in May 2021. Royal Navy ve... | lanes, some of which are classified as green lanes, which have a 15 mph speed limit and where priority is afforded to pedestrians, cyclists and horse riders. Jersey has an airport and a number of ports, which are operated by Ports of Jersey. Currency Jersey's monetary policy is linked to the Bank of England. The offici... |
trade between Jersey and the New World, especially Canada and Newfoundland. By 1763, around a third of the fish being exported from Conception Bay was carried by Jersey vessels. In the 1780s, a number of Jersey families setttled permanently, such as the de Quettevilles in Forteau, Labrador. The first printing press was... | Battle of Jersey The 18th century was a period of political tension between Britain and France, as the two nations clashed all over the world as their ambitions grew. Because of its position, Jersey was more or less on a continuous war footing. During the American Wars of Independence, two attempted invasions of the is... |
largest settlement is the town of St Helier, which also plays host to the island's seat of government. The town consists of the built-up area of southern St Helier, including First Tower, and some adjoining parts of St Saviour and St Clement, such as Georgetown. The town is the central business district, hosting a larg... | to the island's seat of government. The town consists of the built-up area of southern St Helier, including First Tower, and some adjoining parts of St Saviour and St Clement, such as Georgetown. The town is the central business district, hosting a large proportion of the island's retail and employment, such as the fin... |
men, and 16 to 59 for women; 66% of the population). The dependency ratio for Jersey was 52% (similar to 2011); the dependency ratio is around the same value as that in 1931, however was higher (60%) in 1971, and lower (47%) in 1991. Place of birth Half of the population of Jersey was born on the island, with the major... | (60%) in 1971, and lower (47%) in 1991. Place of birth Half of the population of Jersey was born on the island, with the majority of the remainder from elsewhere in the British Islands. 7% of the population was born in Portugal, including Madeira, the largest overseas place of birth. In 1981, only 3% of the population ... |
adviser in the island is the Lieutenant Governor of Jersey, appointed for a five year term. He is a point of contact between Jersey ministers and the United Kingdom government and carries out executive functions in relation to immigration control, deportation, naturalisation and the issue of passports. Since 2017, the ... | Jersey, which hold around a third of the States: Jersey Alliance (centre-right, party of government) Jersey Liberal Conservatives (centre-right) Reform Jersey (social democratic) Progress Party (centrist) Criticism Jersey's political system has often been criticised over the centuries, both within and without the islan... |
spent in the island, and Jersey residents do not pay tax or national insurance contributions to HMRC. As the UK is responsible for Jersey's defence and international representation, the cost of Jersey to the British taxpayer could be seen at around £55 million, though this is a notional cost; it's unlikely that, if Jer... | and have adequate employees, expenditure and physical assets in Jersey. The chair of the EU Tax Matters Subcommittee Paul Tang has however criticised the list for not including "renowned tax havens" such as Jersey. In January 2021, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to include on the blacklist of countries th... |
Telephone Numbering Plan, which means the island shares the UK's international dialling code +44. 4G license operators in the island are obligated to provide a 2 Mbps download speed to 95% of the island population 90% of the time. In 2016, the island had 95% 4G coverage and higher average mobile data speeds than (7 maj... | there were 124,262 mobile subscriptions, of which 2,845 were mobile only. Mobile data prices are lower in Jersey than other similarly-sized countries, such as Bermuda and Malta, but slightly higher than the major operators in the UK. In 2020, the following mobile usage statistics were recorded: 202.0 million mobile min... |
the Jersey Highway Code. Visitors wishing to drive must possess a Certificate of Insurance or an International Green Card, a valid Driving Licence or International Driving Permit (UK International Driving Permits are not valid). Photocopies are not acceptable. A nationality plate must be displayed on the back of visiti... | de Saint Pierre A12 Beaumont to St Ouen road: La Route de Beaumont, La Grande Route de Saint Pierre, La Grande Route de Saint Ouen A13 St Aubin to Red Houses road: La Mont les Vaux, La Grande Route de Saint Brelade, La Route des Genets, La Route Orange A14: Rouge Bouillon A15: St Clement's Road A16: Commercial Building... |
and transformed itself into a purple doughnut. A glowing purple cloud was faintly visible for a few minutes." The nuclear yield was reported in most official documents as "less than 20 kilotons." One report by the U.S. government reported the yield of the "Tightrope" test as 10 kilotons. Seven sounding rockets were lau... | water for takeoff. From July 10–22, 1923, the atoll was recorded in a pioneering aerial photography project. The left Honolulu on July 16 and joined up with the Whippoorwill to complete the survey and then traveled to Wake Island to complete surveys there. Tents were pitched on the southwest beach of fine white sand, a... |
Jordan's claim to the West Bank in favor of the Palestinians. Jordan is landlocked except at its southern extremity, where nearly of shoreline along the Gulf of Aqaba provide access to the Red Sea. Geographic coordinates: Boundaries Except for small sections of the borders with Israel and Syria, Jordan's international ... | sand and dunes, particularly in the south and southeast, together with salt flats. Occasional jumbles of sandstone hills or low mountains support only meager and stunted vegetation that thrives for a short period after the scanty winter rains. These areas support little life and are the least populated regions of Jorda... |
There are also hundreds of thousands of workers from Egypt, Indonesia and South Asia, who work as domestic and construction workers. Definition The territory of Jordan can be defined by the history of its creation after the end of World War I, the League of Nations and redrawing of the borders of the Eastern Mediterran... | one God," are concentrated in the rural, mountainous areas west and north of Amman. Even though the faith originally developed out of Ismaili Islam, Druze do not identify as Muslims, and they do not accept the five pillars of Islam. Bedouins Arabs The other group of Jordanians is descended from Bedouins (of which, less... |
and responsible to the Chamber of Deputies on matters of general policy, including the composition of cabinet. A two-thirds vote of "no confidence" by the Chamber can force the cabinet to resign. Legislative branch Legislative power rests in the bicameral National Assembly. The National Assembly (Majlis al-Umma) has tw... | courts: Sharia courts which enforce the provisions of Islamic law and civil status, and tribunals of other religious communities officially recognized in Jordan. Political conditions King Hussein ruled Jordan from 1953 to 1999, surviving a number of challenges to his rule, drawing on the loyalty of his military, and se... |
data service generate annual revenue of around JD836.5m ($1.18bn) per year, which is equivalent to 13.5% of GDP. Jordan's IT sector is the most developed and competitive in the region due to the 2001 telecom liberalization. Market share of the mobile sector, the most competitive telecoms market, is currently fairly eve... | continue to increase in order to meet demand, which the government estimates would continue to grow by about 5% per year. About 99 percent of the population is reported to have access to electricity. Transport The transportation sector on average contributes some 10% to Jordan's GDP, with transportation and communicati... |
relay link with Egypt and Syria; connection to international submarine cable FLAG (Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe); participant in MEDARABTEL; international links total about 4,000. Radio Radios: 1.66 million () Media and Communications Providers Seagulls - www.seagullscommunications.com FM Stations Television Telev... | 2009 and 38 per cent by the end of 2010. The Jordanian government has announced that the sales tax on computers and internet connection would be removed in order to further stimulate the ICT industry in Jordan. King Abdullah II told the BBC in 2004 that he hoped to make his country the tech hub of the Middle East. Jord... |
planned, which are expected to be tendered later in 2010. The three routes are: From the Syrian border, via Zarqa, to the Saudi border; replacing part of the Hedjaz Railway; Connecting the first line to Aqaba, and from Mafraq to Irbid, replacing another part of the Hedjaz Railway; A link to the Iraqi border. However, i... | newspaper Globes reported that in a meeting between the Israeli minister of transport, Shaul Mofaz and the Jordanian ambassador in Tel Aviv in November, the transport minister announced that European nations are interested in financing the construction of a Haifa-Irbid-Amman railway. 2005- 2005 in rail transport - Jord... |
and maintained relations with Iraq. In public, Jordan continued to call for the lifting of UN sanctions against Iraq within the context of implementing UNIC resolutions . Since the end of the war, Jordan has largely restored its relations with Western countries through its participation in the Middle East war process a... | free trade agreement with the United States. Jordan is an active member of the UN and several of its specialized and related agencies, including the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and World Health Organization (WHO). Jordan is a member of the World Bank, Internationa... |
a prison, and a cemetery. The workers on the island came mainly from Mauritius and the Seychelles. Working conditions were extremely harsh, with rule-breaking punished by flogging or imprisonment, and each worker had to extract one metric ton of phosphate per day to earn 3.5 rupees. In 1968, Mauritian workers revolted,... | Ocean that lay within the Mozambique Channel (Juan de Nova, Europa Island, and the Glorioso Islands). Its aim was primarily to respond to Madagascar's claims to those territories, which France considers protected within an exclusive economic zone. Juan de Nova Island was assigned a small garrison of 14 soldiers from th... |
(by then deceased) rival, Ursus. In September, Tycho secured him a commission as a collaborator on the new project he had proposed to the emperor: the Rudolphine Tables that should replace the Prutenic Tables of Erasmus Reinhold. Two days after Tycho's unexpected death on 24 October 1601, Kepler was appointed his succe... | and Feselius—was a neutral mediation between the feuding scholars (the titled meaning "Third-party interventions"), but it also set out Kepler's general views on the value of astrology, including some hypothesized mechanisms of interaction between planets and individual souls. While Kepler considered most traditional r... |
Shockley's field effect principle had been anticipated and patented in 1930 by Julius Lilienfeld, who filed his MESFET-like patent in Canada on October 22, 1925. Shockley publicly took the lion's share of the credit for the invention of transistor; this led to a deterioration of Bardeen's relationship with Shockley. Be... | a fundamental theory of conventional superconductivity known as the BCS theory. The transistor revolutionized the electronics industry, making possible the development of almost every modern electronic device, from telephones to computers, and ushering in the Information Age. Bardeen's developments in superconductivity... |
era: The Bullae. A pear shaped vessel used to hold perfume. Its surface was usually decorated with repoussé and engraved symbolic figures. Much of the jewelry found was not worn by Etruscans, but were made to accompany them in the after world. Most, if not all, techniques of Etruscan goldsmiths were not invented by the... | but are often extremely long-lived; in European cultures the most common forms of jewellery listed above have persisted since ancient times, while other forms such as adornments for the nose or ankle, important in other cultures, are much less common. Jewellery may be made from a wide range of materials. Gemstones and ... |
(2004) Berglin nästa (2006) Berglins Tolva ("Berglin's Twelfth") (2007) Berglin den trettonde : samlade teckningar av Jan och Maria Berglin ("Berglin the Thirteenth: drawings by Jan and Maria Berglin") (2008) Varje dag man inte köper pizza är en seger ("Every day you don't get pizza is a victory") (2009) Berglin den tr... | serier mot sekelslutsleda (1997) Andra bullar! (1998) Knektöppning – Ess i topp (1999) Magnum Berglin: Samlade teckningar 1989-1999 ("Collected drawings 1989-1999") (2001) Lagom Berglin (2002) Pytte Berglin (2003) Berglinska Tider (2004) Berglin nästa (2006) Berglins Tolva ("Berglin's Twelfth") (2007) Berglin den trett... |
film project after a protracted period and, in July 2012, Jarmusch began shooting Only Lovers Left Alive with Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston (who replaced Fassbender), Mia Wasikowska, Anton Yelchin, and John Hurt, while Jarmusch's musical project SQÜRL were the main contributors to the film's soundtrack. The film screen... | of New York University's School of the Arts (then under the direction of Hollywood director László Benedek). Despite his lack of experience in filmmaking, his submission of a collection of photographs and an essay about film secured his acceptance into the program. He studied there for four years, meeting fellow studen... |
Certainly several church documents including a papal letter and two indulgences were printed, one of which was issued in Mainz. In view of the value of printing in quantity, seven editions in two styles were ordered, resulting in several thousand copies being printed. Some printed editions of Ars Minor, a schoolbook on... | compared online. The text lacks modern features such as page numbers, indentations, and paragraph breaks. An undated 36-line edition of the Bible was printed, probably in Bamberg in 1458–60, possibly by Gutenberg. A large part of it was shown to have been set from a copy of Gutenberg's Bible, thus disproving earlier sp... |
directed by Luc Besson, was inspired by his life story and that of his friend, Enzo Maiorca. Mayol was one of the screenwriters and authored the book Homo Delphinus: the Dolphin Within Man of his philosophy about the aquatic origins of humans. Early life Jacques Mayol was a French national born in Shanghai, China. Mayo... | around 1965–6. Woodward believed that having the safety divers carry two second stages would be a safer and more practical approach than buddy breathing in the event of an emergency. Mayol was already an experienced free diver when he met the Sicilian Enzo Maiorca who was the first to dive below 50m. Mayol reached 60m ... |
were shot to death and many others were burned to death when the barracks were set on fire. Terboven had ordered the massacre a few days earlier. In July 1942 at least one German guard assigned to the Korgen prison camp was killed. The commandant ordered retribution: execution by gunfire for "39 prisoners at Korgen and... | September 1941, Terboven decreed that special SS and Police Tribunals would have jurisdiction over Norwegian citizens who violated his decrees. These were summary proceedings with the accused provided no adequate defense. The trials were not open to the public and the proceedings were not published. Sentences were carr... |
Time. Early life Brown was born on May 3, 1933, in Barnwell, South Carolina, to 16-year-old Susie (née Behling; 1916–2004) and 21-year-old Joseph Gardner Brown (1912–1993) in a small wooden shack. Brown's name was supposed to have been Joseph James Brown, but his first and middle names were mistakenly reversed on his b... | Byrd, the group consisted of Sylvester Keels, Doyle Oglesby, Fred Pulliam, Nash Knox and Nafloyd Scott. Influenced by R&B groups such as Hank Ballard and the Midnighters, the Orioles and Billy Ward and his Dominoes, the group changed its name, first to the Toccoa Band and then to the Flames. Nafloyd's brother Baroy lat... |
RFC 881, RFC 882 and RFC 920) which were joined in 1995 by RFC 1591 which he also co-wrote. In total, he wrote or co-authored more than 200 RFCs. Postel served on the Internet Architecture Board and its predecessors for many years. He was the Director of the names and number assignment clearinghouse, the Internet Assig... | December 1969 as a Postgraduate Research Engineer (I) where he was involved in early work on the ARPANET. He was involved in the development of the Internet domain system and, at his instigation, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn developed a second set of protocols for handling data between networks, which is now known as Interne... |
the RFC Editor function at the ISI from 1998 until 2006. As Area Director of the User Services area, she was a member of the Internet Engineering Steering Group of the IETF from 1990 to March 1998. Recognition With Bob Braden, she received the 2006 Postel Award in recognition of her services to the Internet. She is men... | Numbers Authority, such as the global allocation of IP addresses, Autonomous System (AS) number allocation, and management of the root zone of the Domain Name System (DNS). After Postel's death in 1998, Reynolds helped supervise the transition of the IANA functions to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Num... |
summer. 45 million litres of julmust are consumed during December, which is around 50% of the total soft drink volume in December and 75% of the total yearly must sales. Must was created by Harry Roberts and his father Robert Roberts in 1910 as a non-alcoholic alternative to beer. Ingredients The syrup is still made ex... | to return for Christmas 2011. Outside Sweden In November 2004, PepsiCo marketed a product somewhat similar in taste to julmust in the United States called Pepsi Holiday Spice. It was on sale during the 2004 and 2006 Christmas seasons. Cost Plus World Market in the United States sells julmust during the Christmas holida... |
men became good friends, and Arago's innovative and witty accounts of his travels led Verne toward a newly developing genre of literature: that of travel writing. In 1852, two new pieces from Verne appeared in the Musée des familles: Martin Paz, a novella set in Lima, which Verne wrote in 1851 and published 10 July thr... | quarrel with Pitre-Chevalier and refused to continue contributing (a refusal he would maintain until 1863, when Pitre-Chevalier died, and the magazine went to new editorship). While writing stories and articles for Pitre-Chevalier, Verne began to form the idea of inventing a new kind of novel, a "Roman de la Science" (... |
of Science and Education in the cabinet of Minister President Heinz Kühn. He soon gained a reputation as a reformer. As part of the mass education campaign of the 1970s, he founded five universities, each at different sites, in North Rhine-Westphalia and initiated Germany's first distance learning university at Hagen (... | worked as a publisher, especially with the Protestant Youth Publishing House. Political career Rau was a member of the All-German People's Party (GVP), which was founded by Gustav Heinemann. The party was known for proposing German reunification from 1952 until it was disbanded in 1957. In 1958, the pacifist Rau and hi... |
Jackson, Wisconsin (disambiguation) Jackson, Wyoming Jackson County (disambiguation) Jackson Hole, a valley in the state of Wyoming Jackson metropolitan area (disambiguation) Jackson Parish, Louisiana Jackson River (Virginia) Jackson Township (disambiguation) Lake Jackson (Georgia), a reservoir Elsewhere Jackson Island... | Jackson, Missouri Jackson, Nebraska Jackson, New Hampshire Jackson, Camden County, New Jersey Jackson Township, New Jersey Jackson, New York Jackson, North Carolina Jackson, Ohio Jackson Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania Jackson, Rhode Island Jackson, South Carolina Jackson, Tennessee Jackson, Washington Jacks... |
to be the highest point in Jordan, but SRTM data shows that Jabal Umm al Dami is above sea level and therefore higher. Traditional climbing routes | and therefore higher. Traditional climbing routes over its eastern face make it one of the main attractions for climbers. There are about ten scrambling routes across the mountain. Tony Howard wrote a valuable book about Jordan, including |
Socialist artwork, films, and literature. Church struggle In 1933, Hitler signed the Reichskonkordat (Reich Concordat), a treaty with the Vatican that required the regime to honour the independence of Catholic institutions and prohibited clergy from involvement in politics. However, the regime continued to target the C... | propaganda films directed by Leni Riefenstahl. It won the gold medal at the 1935 Venice Film Festival. At the 1935 Nazi party congress rally at Nuremberg, Goebbels declared that "Bolshevism is the declaration of war by Jewish-led international subhumans against culture itself." Goebbels was involved in planning the sta... |
production. In August 2016, the film began principal photography. The Coens first wrote the script for Suburbicon in 1986. The film was eventually directed by George Clooney and began filming in October 2016. It was released by Paramount Pictures in the fall of 2017. The Coens directed The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a W... | Henry Kissinger, Man on the Go, Lumberjacks of the North and The Banana Film. Education Joel and Ethan graduated from St. Louis Park High School in 1973 and 1976, respectively, and from Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. After Simon's Rock, Joel spent four years in the undergraduate film p... |
appointments as president of the Argentine Society of Writers and as professor of English and American Literature at the Argentine Association of English Culture. His short story "Emma Zunz" was made into a film (under the name of Días de odio, Days of Hate, directed in 1954 by Leopoldo Torre Nilsson). Around this time... | techniques to tell essentially true stories. The second consists of literary forgeries, which Borges initially passed off as translations of passages from famous but seldom-read works. In the following years, he served as a literary adviser for the publishing house Emecé Editores, and from 1936 to 1939 wrote weekly col... |
in tone as any of the most outrageous of the Restoration dramatists who may have provided some of her inspiration ... It stands alone in Austen's work as a study of an adult woman whose intelligence and force of character are greater than those of anyone she encounters. According to Janet Todd, the model for the title ... | published during her lifetime. While Murray prepared Emma for publication, Austen began The Elliots, later published as Persuasion. She completed her first draft in July 1816. In addition, shortly after the publication of Emma, Henry Austen repurchased the copyright for Susan from Crosby. Austen was forced to postpone ... |
Giugno (Malta) Union Dissolution Day (Norway) June 8 Bounty Day (Norfolk Island) Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Engineer's Day (Peru) Primož Trubar Day (Slovenia) World Brain Tumor Day (international) World Oceans Day (international) June 9 Anniversary of the Accession of King Abdullah II (Jordan) Autonomy D... | till after June 15. Plutarch, however, implies that the entire month of June was more favorable for weddings than May. Certain meteor showers take place in June. The Arietids takes place May 22 to July 2 each year, and peaks on June 7. The Beta Taurids June 5 to July 18. The June Bootids take place roughly between 26 J... |
Its birth flowers are the Larkspur or the Water Lily. The zodiac signs for the month of July are Cancer (until July 22) and Leo (July 23 onwards). Observances This list does not necessarily imply either official status nor general observance. Season of Emancipation 14 April to 23 August (Barbados) Honor America Days: 1... | of the Northern Hemisphere, where it is the second month of summer, and the coldest month in much of the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the second month of winter. The second half of the year commences in July. In the Southern Hemisphere, July is the seasonal equivalent of January in the Northern hemisphere. "Dog day... |
Genetically Diseased Offspring" comes into effect in Nazi Germany. 1942 – The Declaration by United Nations is signed by twenty-six nations. 1945 – World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Operation Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed, attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow. 1947 – ... | Grand Union Flag, at Prospect Hill. 1781 – American Revolutionary War: One thousand five hundred soldiers of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment under General Anthony Wayne's command rebel against the Continental Army's winter camp in Morristown, New Jersey in the Pennsylvania Line Mutiny of 1781. 1788 – First edition of The... |
of Finland 1931 – Toshiki Kaifu, Japanese lawyer and politician, 76th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2022) 1934 – John Hollowbread, English footballer, goalkeeper (d. 2007) 1936 – Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor (d. 1992) 1938 – David Bailey, English photographer and painter 1938 – Lynn Conwa... | sixth Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b. c. 1109) 1184 – Theodora Komnene, Duchess of Austria, daughter of Andronikos Komnenos 1298 – Lodomer, Hungarian prelate, Archbishop of Esztergom 1470 – Heinrich Reuß von Plauen, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order 1512 – Svante Nilsson, Sweden politician (b. 1460) 1514 – Wil... |
formed. 1959 – Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state. 1961 – Cold War: After a series of economic retaliations against one another, the United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba. 1961 – The SL-1 nuclear reactor is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause im... | of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power. 1870 – Construction work begins on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, United States. 1871 – In the Battle of Bapaume, an engagement in the Franco-Prussian War, General Louis Faidherbe's forces bring about a Prussian retreat. 1885 – Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop. 19... |
Nimmo, English author 1945 – Ko Chun-hsiung, Taiwanese actor, director, and politician (d. 2015) 1945 – Vince Foster, American lawyer and political figure (d. 1993) 1945 – William R. Higgins, American colonel (d. 1990) 1945 – Princess Michael of Kent 1945 – David Pleat, English footballer, manager, and sportscaster 194... | American golfer 1968 – Chad Lowe, American actor, director, and producer 1969 – Delino DeShields, American baseball player and manager 1970 – Shane McMahon, American wrestler and businessman 1971 – Regina King, American actress 1972 – Shelia Burrell, American heptathlete 1972 – Christos Kostis, Greek footballer 1972 – ... |
Mourinho, Portuguese footballer and manager 1963 – Simon O'Donnell, Australian footballer, cricketer, and sportscaster 1963 – Tony Parks, English footballer and manager 1963 – Andrew Ridgeley, English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1964 – Adam Crozier, Scottish businessman 1965 – Thomas Östros, Swedish businessman and... | becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976). 1950 – The Constitution of India comes into force, forming a republic. Rajendra Prasad is sworn in as the first President of India. Observed as Republic Day in India. 1952 – Black Saturday in Egypt: rioters burn Cairo's central business dis... |
1875 – Julián Carrillo, Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1965) 1878 – Walter Kollo, German composer and conductor (d. 1940) 1880 – Herbert Strudwick, English cricketer and coach (d. 1970) 1884 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (d. 1962) 1885 – Vahan Terian, Armenian poet and activist (d. 192... | – Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco. 1909 – United States troops leave Cuba, with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, after being there since the Spanish–American War. 1915 – An act of the U.S. Con... |
programmer, creator of the Python programming language 1956 – John Lydon, English singer-songwriter 1957 – Shirley Babashoff, American swimmer 1958 – Armin Reichel, German footballer and manager 1959 – Anthony LaPaglia, Australian actor and producer 1959 – Kelly Lynch, American model and actress 1960 – Akbar Ganji, Ira... | stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard. 2001 – In the Netherlands, a Scottish court convicts Libyan Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and acquits another Libyan citizen for their part in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988. 2001... |
laureate (Physiology or Medicine) 1944 – Tommie Smith, American sprinter and football player; winner of 1968 Olympic 200m gold medal in a world record time 1946 – Tony Levin, American bass player and songwriter 1947 – David Blunkett, British Labour politician; Home Secretary 2001–2004 1947 – Robert Englund, American ac... | River. 1889 – The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle. 1892 – The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation. 1894 – Governor Davis H. Waite orders the Colorado state militia to protect and support the miners engaged in the Cripple Creek miners' strike. 1901–present 1912 – The eruption of Novarup... |
Swedish journalist and politician (d. 1922) 1861 – Robina Nicol, New Zealand photographer and suffragist (d. 1942) 1862 – Philipp Lenard, Slovak-German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947) 1863 – Bones Ely, American baseball player and manager (d. 1952) 1868 – Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish paint... | campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas. 1901–present 1905 – Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden. The vote was confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year. 1906 – Cunard Line's is launched from the John Brown Shipya... |
rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (d. 1983) 1881 – Maggie Gripenberg, Finnish dancer and choreographer (d. 1976) 1888 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian-American anarchist and convicted criminal (d. 1927) 1889 – Hugo Wieslander, Swedish decathlete (d. 1976) 1894 – Kiichiro Toyoda, Japanese businessman, founded Toyot... | parapsychologist and author (d. 1981) 1928 – Queen Fabiola of Belgium (d. 2014) 1929 – Ayhan Şahenk, Turkish businessman (d. 2001) 1930 – Charles Rangel, American soldier, lawyer, and politician 1932 – Athol Fugard, South African-American actor, director, and playwright 1932 – Tim Sainsbury, English businessman and pol... |
Boateng, English lawyer and politician, British High Commissioner to South Africa 1951 – Danny Edwards, American golfer 1952 – Pat Summitt, American basketball player and coach (d. 2016) 1954 – Will Patton, American actor 1955 – Paul O'Grady, English television host, producer, and drag performer 1955 – Kirron Kher, Ind... | – Danny McFarlane, Jamaican hurdler and sprinter 1973 – Sami Kapanen, Finnish-American ice hockey player and manager 1976 – Alan Carr, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter 1976 – Massimo Oddo, Italian footballer and manager 1977 – Boeta Dippenaar, South African cricketer 1977 – Chris McAlister, American football p... |
1944 – Chris Spedding, English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1945 – Tommy Franks, American general 1945 – Ken Livingstone, English politician, 1st Mayor of London 1945 – Eddy Merckx, Belgian cyclist and sportscaster 1945 – Art Bell, American broadcaster and author (d. 2018) 1946 – Peter Rosei, Austrian author, poet, ... | fugitive Frank Nash are gunned down by gangsters attempting to free Nash. 1939 – Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is executed in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison. 1940 – World War II: is attacked and sunk by the Luftwaffe near Saint-Nazaire, France. At least 3,000 are ... |
Peter Blake, English painter and illustrator 1932 – George Sluizer, French-Dutch director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2014) 1933 – Álvaro Siza Vieira, Portuguese architect, designed the Porto School of Architecture 1934 – Jean Geissinger, American baseball player (d. 2014) 1934 – Jack W. Hayford, American minister ... | of the United States 1955 – Vic Marks, English cricketer and sportscaster 1956 – Anthony Bourdain, American chef and author (d. 2018) 1956 – Frank Paschek, German long jumper 1956 – Boris Trajkovski, Macedonian politician, 2nd President of the Republic of Macedonia (d. 2004) 1956 – Craig Young, Australian rugby player ... |
guitarist, and actor 1956 – Catherine Samba-Panza, interim president of the Central African Republic 1956 – Patrick Mercer, English colonel and politician 1957 – Al Hunter Ashton, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2007) 1957 – Philippe Couillard, Canadian surgeon and politician, 31st Premier of Quebec 1957 – Patty Smy... | Union Act, which establishes credit unions. 1936 – Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter. 1940 – World War II: Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina. 1941 – World War II: Sov... |
British invasions of the River Plate. 1844 – Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are killed by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail. 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate forces defeat Union forces during the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain during the Atlanta Campaign. 1895... | Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (d. 1919) 1850 – Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-Japanese historian and author (d. 1904) 1862 – May Irwin, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 1938) 1865 – John Monash, Australian engineer and general (d. 1931) 1869 – Kate Carew, American illustrator and journalist (d. 1961) ... |
1719 – Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1785) 1734 – Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier, French organist and composer (d. 1794) 1742 – William Hooper, American physician, lawyer, and politician (d. 1790) 1824 – Paul Broca, French physician, anatomist, and a... | Danish painter 1943 – Donald Johanson, American paleontologist and academic 1943 – Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1945 – Ken Buchanan, Scottish boxer 1945 – David Knights, English bass player and producer 1945 – Raul Seixas, Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (... |
1958 – Mick MacNeil, Scottish keyboard player and songwriter 1959 – Radney Foster, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1960 – Claudio Langes, Italian race car driver 1960 – Prvoslav Vujčić, Serbian-Canadian poet and philosopher 1960 – Sudesh Berry, Indian actor 1961 – Óscar Elías Biscet, Cuban physician... | Deniz Baykal, Turkish lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey 1938 – Roger Hunt, English footballer (d. 2021) 1938 – Tony Oliva, Cuban-American baseball player and coach 1938 – Diana Rigg, English actress (d. 2020) 1938 – Natalie Wood, American actress (d. 1981) 1939 – Judy Chicago, American feminist art... |
India's first female president. 2010 – WikiLeaks publishes classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history. 2018 – As-Suwayda attacks: Coordinated attacks occur in Syria. 2019 – National extreme heat records set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and German... | – Mario Montenegro, Filipino actor (died 1988) 1928 – Nils Taube, Estonian-English businessman (died 2008) 1929 – Judd Buchanan, Canadian businessman and politician, 36th Canadian Minister of Public Works 1929 – Somnath Chatterjee, Indian lawyer and politician, 14th Speaker of the Lok Sabha (died 2018) 1929 – Eddie Maz... |
and conductor (d. 1900) 1854 – Sarah Grand, Irish feminist writer (d. 1943) 1859 – Emanuel Nobel, Swedish-Russian businessman (d. 1932) 1862 – Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (d. 1937) 1863 – Louis Couperus, Dutch author and poet (d. 1923) 1864 – Ninian Comper, Scottish architect (d. 1960) 1865 – Frederick Cook, A... | – Bruno Ngotty, French footballer 1971 – Erik Rutan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1971 – Kyle Sandilands, Australian radio and television host 1972 – Steven Fischer, American director and producer 1972 – Radmila Šekerinska, Macedonian politician, Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia 1972 –... |
Samuel Adams and John Hancock, if captured, were to be hanged. 1776 – The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted. 1798 – Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battle of Ballynahinch. 1817 – The earliest form of bicycle, the dandy horse, is driven by Karl von Drais. 1821 – Badi VII, king of Sennar, surrenders his throne and realm... | Mexican wrestler (d. 2013) 1969 – Mathieu Schneider, American ice hockey player 1969 – Heinz-Christian Strache, Austrian politician 1971 – Mark Henry, American weightlifter and wrestler 1971 – Ryan Klesko, American baseball player 1971 – Jérôme Romain, Caribbean-Dominican triple jumper and coach 1973 – Jason Caffey, Am... |
aspects of Conway's work. For instance, he discussed Conway's game of Sprouts (Jul 1967), Hackenbush (Jan 1972), and his angel and devil problem (Feb 1974). In the September 1976 column, he reviewed Conway's book On Numbers and Games and even managed to explain Conway's surreal numbers. Conway was a prominent member of... | 11 April 2020) was an English mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. He also made contributions to many branches of recreational mathematics, most notably the invention of the cellular automaton called the Game of Life. Born and rais... |
Moshe Greenberg, American-Israeli rabbi and scholar (d. 2010) 1928 – John Glenn, American baseball player 1929 – Winnie Ewing, Scottish lawyer and politician 1929 – George Clayton Johnson, American author and screenwriter (d. 2015) 1929 – Moe Norman, Canadian golfer (d. 2004) 1929 – José Vicente Rangel, Venezuelan poli... | (d. 1908) 1830 – Camille Pissarro, Danish-French painter (d. 1903) 1832 – Alvan Graham Clark, American astronomer (d. 1897) 1835 – Henryk Wieniawski, Polish violinist and composer (d. 1880) 1839 – Adolphus Busch, German brewer, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (d. 1913) 1856 – Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist and engi... |
1485 – Johannes Bugenhagen, Polish-German priest and reformer (d. 1558) 1485 – Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg (d. 1555) 1499 – Johannes Brenz, German theologian and the Protestant Reformer (d. 1570) 1519 – Theodore Beza, French theologian and scholar (d. 1605) 1532 – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester... | In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment. 1960 – Assassination attempt of Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt. 1963 – The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government. 1973 – The UpStairs Lounge arson attack takes place at a gay bar loca... |
Lady Anne Clifford, 14th Baroness de Clifford (d. 1676) 1601–1900 1628 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1687) 1661 – Charles Rollin, French historian and educator (d. 1741) 1697 – Johann Joachim Quantz, German flute player and composer (d. 1773) 1703 – François Bigot, French politician (... | the merger of traditionalist parties. 1964 – In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam. 1968 – Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. 1969 – The... |
founded Boko Haram (d. 2009) 1975 – Sara Gilbert, American actress, producer, and talk show host 1980 – Ivan Klasnic, German-Croatian footballer 1982 – Adam Lambert, American singer, songwriter and actor 1984 – Natalie du Toit, South African swimmer 1984 – Nuno Morais, Portuguese footballer 1985 – Marc Gasol, Spanish b... | and composer (d. 2017) 1948 – Raymond Keene, English chess player and author 1949 – Doris Davenport, American poet and teacher 1949 – Evgeny Lovchev, Russian footballer and manager 1949 – Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-American drummer and producer (d. 2014) 1950 – Ann Jillian, American actress and singer 1950 – Jody Scheckte... |
Yumiko Kobayashi, Japanese voice actress and singer 1979 – Ivana Wong, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and actress 1980 – Antonio Gates, American football player 1980 – Sergey Kirdyapkin, Russian race walker 1980 – Craig Mottram, Australian runner 1980 – Antero Niittymäki, Finnish ice hockey player 1980 – Tara Platt, Ameri... | streets. 1928 – Aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly in an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean (she is a passenger; Wilmer Stultz is the pilot and Lou Gordon the mechanic). 1935 – Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total of 60 injuries and 24 ... |
1932 – Raymond Jolliffe, 5th Baron Hylton, English politician 1932 – Bob McGrath, American singer and actor 1932 – Billy Williams, American baseball player and coach (d. 2013) 1933 – Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater, English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Defence 1933 – Norman Lloyd-Edwards, Welsh law... | 1952 – Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter. 1966 – The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their Fifth Amendment rights before questioning them (colloquially known as "Mirandizing"). 1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. J... |
Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state. 1985 – Members of the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, dressed as Salvadoran soldiers, attack the Zona Rosa area of San Salvador. 1987 – Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent at... | 2009) 1922 – Marilyn P. Johnson, American educator and diplomat, 8th United States Ambassador to Togo 1923 – Bob Hank, Australian footballer and coach (d. 2012) 1926 – Erna Schneider Hoover, American mathematician and inventor 1927 – Luciano Benjamín Menéndez, Argentine general and human rights violator (d. 2018) 1928 ... |
released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters". 1979 – ABC News correspondent Bill Stewart is shot dead by a Nicaraguan National Guard soldier under the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle during the Nicaraguan Revolution. The... | 1921 – Byron Farwell, American historian and author (d. 1999) 1921 – Pancho Segura, Ecuadorian tennis player (d. 2017) 1923 – Peter Gay, German-American historian, author, and academic (d. 2015) 1923 – Jerzy Nowak, Polish actor and educator (d. 2013) 1924 – Chet Atkins, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and produc... |
and civil servant (d. 1941) 1881 – (O.S.) Natalia Goncharova, Russian painter, costume designer, and illustrator (d. 1962) 1882 – Lluís Companys, Spanish lawyer and politician, 123rd President of Catalonia (d. 1940) 1882 – Adrianus de Jong, Dutch fencer and soldier (d. 1966) 1882 – Rockwell Kent, American painter and i... | – The Irish village of Knockcroghery was burned by British forces. 1929 – An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico. 1930 – One-year conscription comes into force in France. 1940 – World War II: Italy begins an unsuccessful invasion of France. 1942 – World War II: To... |
defy Emperor Tự Đức of Vietnam and fight on against the Europeans. 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners. 1873 – Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the te... | with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region. Births Pre-1600 1341 – Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of King Edward III of England and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (d. 1402) 1412 – Ludovico III Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua, Italian ruler (d. 1478) 1493 – Justus Jonas, German priest and academic (d. 155... |
Front Page (1974), and Buddy Buddy (1981). In 1967, Lemmon's production company Jalem produced the film Cool Hand Luke, which starred Paul Newman in the lead role. The film was a box-office and critical success. Newman, in gratitude, offered him the role of the Sundance Kid in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but Le... | went on to win an Academy Award for his performance in the film. Another nine films with them co-starring eventually followed, including The Odd Couple (1968), The Front Page (1974), and Buddy Buddy (1981). In 1967, Lemmon's production company Jalem produced the film Cool Hand Luke, which starred Paul Newman in the lea... |
published volumes". Said comments: "[I]t seemed to me that if Conrad wrote of himself, of the problem of self-definition, with such sustained urgency, some of what he wrote must have had meaning for his fiction. [I]t [was] difficult to believe that a man would be so uneconomical as to pour himself out in letter after l... | was hospitalised for several months, suffering from gout, neuralgic pains in his right arm and recurrent attacks of malaria. He also complained of swollen hands "which made writing difficult". Taking his uncle Tadeusz Bobrowski's advice, he convalesced at a spa in Switzerland. Conrad had a phobia of dentistry, neglecti... |
fault, questioning the intellectual depth and thematic seriousness of his work given the polish of his language and the perceived lightness of his themes, while others criticized Updike for misogynistic depictions of women and sexual relationships. Other critics argue that Updike's "dense vocabulary and syntax function... | in his work a "hard, coarse, primitive, misogynistic worldview". Wood both praised and criticized Updike's language for having "an essayistic saunter; the language lifts itself up on pretty hydraulics, and hovers slightly above its subjects, generally a little too accomplished and a little too abstract". According to W... |
announcement if he deserved the Nobel, replied: "Frankly, no." Biographer Jackson Benson notes, "[T]his honor was one of the few in the world that one could not buy nor gain by political maneuver. It was precisely because the committee made its judgment ... on its own criteria, rather than plugging into 'the main curre... | With his second wife Steinbeck had two sons, Thomas ("Thom") Myles Steinbeck (1944–2016) and John Steinbeck IV (1946–1991). In May 1948, Steinbeck returned to California on an emergency trip to be with his friend Ed Ricketts, who had been seriously injured when a train struck his car. Ricketts died hours before Steinbe... |
had known what a shabby miserable place it is, I would not have asked for it; besides as things have turned out I think a certain person is not worth speaking to, nor speaking of", presumably meaning the king. Reynolds wrote to Jonathan Shipley, Bishop of St Asaph, a few weeks later: "Your Lordship congratulation on my... | the Rock, its chain wrapped twice around his right hand. John Constable said in the 1830s that it was "almost a history of the defence of Gibraltar". Desmond Shawe-Taylor has claimed that the portrait may have a religious meaning, Heathfield holding the key similar to St. Peter (Jesus' "rock") possessing the keys to He... |
important contributions to economic analysis – the theory of business cycles and development. Following neither Walras nor Keynes, Schumpeter starts in The Theory of Economic Development with a treatise of circular flow which, excluding any innovations and innovative activities, leads to a stationary state. The station... | noted that Schumpeter saw any political system in which the power was fully monopolized as fascist. Democratic theory In the same book, Schumpeter expounded a theory of democracy which sought to challenge what he called the "classical doctrine". He disputed the idea that democracy was a process by which the electorate ... |
John Lee Cooker, Texas Slim, Delta John, Birmingham Sam and his Magic Guitar, Johnny Williams, and the Boogie Man. His early solo songs were recorded by Bernie Besman. Hooker rarely played with a standard beat, but instead he changed tempo to fit the needs of the song. This often made it difficult to use backing musici... | performed in Detroit clubs, and, seeking an instrument louder than his acoustic guitar, he bought his first electric guitar. Earlier career Hooker was working as janitor in a Detroit steel mill when his recording career began in 1948, when Modern Records, based in Los Angeles, released a demo he had recorded for Bernie... |
Confederate Brigadier General Stand Watie surrenders the last significant Confederate army. 1868 – Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer". 1887 – The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park. 1894 – Th... | Dave Houghton, Zimbabwean cricketer and coach 1957 – Frances McDormand, American actress, winner of the Triple Crown of Acting 1958 – John Hayes, English politician, Minister of State at the Department of Energy and Climate Change 1960 – Donald Harrison, American saxophonist, composer, and producer 1960 – Tatsuya Uemur... |
lines 2.149–170 – The ghosts of great Romans of the past would feel themselves contaminated when such Romans descend to the underworld. Satire III: There is no Room in Rome for a Roman 322 lines. In the place where Numa Pompilius (the legendary second king of Rome) received a nymph's advice on creating Roman law, the n... | or exemplars of particular vices and virtues. Coupled with his dense and elliptical Latin, these tangential references indicate that the intended reader of the Satires was highly educated. The Satires are concerned with perceived threats to the social continuity of the Roman citizens: social-climbing foreigners, unfait... |
was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost creatives of the surrealist, avant-garde, and Dadaist movements; and one of the most influential figures in early 20th-century art as a whole. The National Observer suggested that, “of the artistic generat... | member of the Académie Française and The Royal Academy of Belgium. During his life, Cocteau was commander of the Legion of Honor, Member of the Mallarmé Academy, German Academy (Berlin), American Academy, Mark Twain (U.S.A) Academy, Honorary President of the Cannes Film Festival, Honorary President of the France-Hungar... |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on 31 March. During his lifetime several likenesses were made of the poet. The earliest was the anonymous portrait of 1594 now in the National Portrait Gallery, London which has been recently restored. One of the earliest Elizabethan portraits of an author, the fashionably dressed... | strain, and the deaths of his friends all contributed to the development of a more sombre and pious tone in his later poems. The change can be clearly seen in "An Anatomy of the World" (1611), a poem that Donne wrote in memory of Elizabeth Drury, daughter of his patron, Sir Robert Drury of Hawstead, Suffolk. This poem ... |
Put Something in My Drink" and "Mama's Boy". Dee Dee Ramone was quoted as saying "All the other singers [in New York] were copying David Johansen (of the New York Dolls), who was copying Mick Jagger... But Joey was unique, totally unique." Other projects In 1985, Ramone joined Steven Van Zandt's music industry activist... | of Ramones classics and some of his other favorite songs, such as The Dave Clark Five's "Any Way You Want It", The Who's "The Kids are Alright" and The Stooges' "No Fun". Ramone co-wrote and recorded the song "Meatball Sandwich" with Youth Gone Mad. For a short time before his death, he took the role of manager and pro... |
Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie". 1881 – In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam. 1888 – George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music. 1889 – Hyde ... | – English crown bans tobacco growing in England, giving the Virginia Company a monopoly in exchange for tax of one shilling per pound. 1644 – Charles I of England defeats a Parliamentarian detachment at the Battle of Cropredy Bridge. 1659 – At the Battle of Konotop the Ukrainian armies of Ivan Vyhovsky defeat the Russi... |
Colombia (d. 2007) 1913 – Harry Wismer, American sportscaster (d. 1967) 1914 – Francisco da Costa Gomes, Portuguese general and politician, 15th President of Portugal (d. 2001) 1914 – Allan Houser, American sculptor and painter (d. 1994) 1917 – Susan Hayward, American actress (d. 1975) 1917 – Lena Horne, American actre... | 1974 begins. 1977 – The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands. 1985 – Thirty-nine American hostages from the hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut after being held for 17 days. 1986 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults. 1990 – ... |
1975) 1911 – Arnold Alas, Estonian landscape architect and artist (d. 1990) 1911 – Sergey Sokolov, Russian marshal and politician, Soviet Minister of Defence (d. 2012) 1912 – David Brower, American environmentalist, founded Sierra Club Foundation (d. 2000) 1912 – Sally Kirkland, American journalist (d. 1989) 1913 – Fra... | American screenwriter (d. 1973) 1902 – William Wyler, French-American film director, producer and screenwriter (d. 1981) 1903 – Amy Johnson, English pilot (d. 1941) 1903 – Beatrix Lehmann, English actress (d. 1979) 1906 – Jean Dieudonné, French mathematician and academic (d. 1992) 1906 – Estée Lauder, American business... |
and Vice President of the Republic of China (d. 2001) 1910 – Edgar V. Saks, Estonian historian, author, and politician, Estonian Minister of Education (d. 1984) 1913 – Huang Hua, Chinese translator and politician, 5th Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China (d. 2010) 1913 – Witold Lutosławski, Polish compose... | – Ange-Félix Patassé, Central African engineer and politician, President of the Central African Republic (d. 2011) 1938 – Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese author and illustrator (d. 1998) 1938 – Etta James, American singer (d. 2012) 1938 – Leiji Matsumoto, Japanese author, illustrator, and animator 1938 – Vladimir Vysotsky... |
States (d. 1993) 1911 – Reg Parnell, English race car driver and manager (d. 1964) 1913 – Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, English historian and academic (d. 1999) 1914 – Frederick Fennell, American conductor and educator (d. 2004) 1914 – Ethelreda Leopold, American actress (d. 1988) 1914 – Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicis... | Western Roman Empire. His mother Galla Placidia ends her regency, but continues to exercise political influence at the court in Rome. 626 – Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Xuanwu Gate Incident. 706 – In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Ta... |
and lawyer (d. 1955) 1916 – Bernard Blier, Argentinian-French actor (d. 1989) 1917 – John Robarts, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Ontario (d. 1982) 1918 – Robert C. O'Brien, American author and journalist (d. 1973) 1918 – Spencer Walklate, Australian rugby league player and soldier (d. 1945) 1920 – Mic... | (d. 2013) 1952 – Ben Crenshaw, American golfer and architect 1952 – Michael Forshaw, Australian lawyer and politician 1952 – Diana Gabaldon, American author 1952 – Lee Ritenour, American guitarist, composer, and producer 1953 – Graham Allen, English politician, Vice-Chamberlain of the Household 1953 – Kostas Skandalidi... |
(d. 1968) 1897 – Jesse Douglas, American mathematician and academic (d. 1965) 1898 – Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1982) 1900 – Alessandro Blasetti, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 1987) 1901–present 1901 – Ruth Crawford Seeger, American composer (d. 1953) 1903 – Ace Baile... | Paul O'Dea, American baseball player and manager (d. 1978) 1921 – Flor María Chalbaud, First Lady of Venezuela (d. 2013) 1921 – Susan Peters, American actress (d. 1952) 1921 – François Reichenbach, French director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1993) 1922 – Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, Belgian painter and sculptor... |
the Polish government-in-exile; only the pilot survives. 1946 – The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland. 1946 – After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States. 1947 – The "Indian Independence Bill" is presented ... | on the face of the earth", then announces his retirement from major league baseball. 1941 – Nazi crimes against the Polish nation: Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv. 1941 – World War II: The Burning of the Riga synagogues: The Great Choral Synagogue in German-occu... |
The Quarrymen to the Beatles: 1956–1970 Formation, fame and touring: 1956–1966 At the age of 15, Lennon formed a skiffle group, the Quarrymen. Named after Quarry Bank High School, the group was established by Lennon in September 1956. By the summer of 1957, the Quarrymen played a "spirited set of songs" made up of half... | superior work to Sgt. Pepper. At the end of 1968, Lennon participated in The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, a television special that was not broadcast. Lennon performed with the Dirty Mac, a supergroup composed of Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Mitch Mitchell. The group also backed a vocal performance ... |
President of the United States (d. 1899) 1844 – Detlev von Liliencron, German poet and author (d. 1909) 1852 – Theodore Robinson, American painter and academic (d. 1896) 1853 – Flinders Petrie, English archaeologist and academic (d. 1942) 1864 – Otto Erich Hartleben, German poet and playwright (d. 1905) 1864 – Ransom E... | king (d. 1999) 1936 – Larry McMurtry, American novelist and screenwriter (d. 2021) 1936 – Colin Meads, New Zealand rugby player and coach (d. 2017) 1937 – Jean-Pierre Jaussaud, French racing driver (d. 2021) 1939 – Frank Blevins, English-Australian lawyer and politician, 7th Deputy Premier of South Australia (d. 2013) ... |
fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history. 1964 – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is formed. 1966 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world. 1967 – Luis Monge... | Thurman Arnold, American lawyer and judge (d. 1969) 1891 – Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese admiral and pilot (d. 1945) 1899 – Lotte Reiniger, German animator and director (d. 1981) 1899 – Edwin Way Teale, American environmentalist and photographer (d. 1980) 1901–present 1904 – Frank Runacres, English painter and educator (d.... |
1889 – James Daugherty, American author, illustrator, and painter (d. 1974) 1889 – Charles Kay Ogden, English linguist and philosopher (d. 1957) 1890 – Frank Morgan, American actor (d. 1949) 1892 – Amanullah Khan, sovereign of the Kingdom of Afghanistan, (d. 1960) 1899 – Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician... | over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. 1946 – Ion Antonescu, "Conducator" ("Leader") of Romania during World War II, is executed. 1950 – The Declaration of Conscienc... |
and Hampstead Railway opens. 1911 – George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 1911 – Mexican Revolution: Government forces bring an end to the Magonista rebellion of 1911 in the Second Battle of Tijuana. 1918 – The Hammond Circus Train Wreck kills 86 and in... | Naples, duchess of Ferrara (d. 1493) 1477 – Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset, English nobleman (d. 1530) 1593 – Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet, English politician and militarian (d. 1671) 1601–1900 1680 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish minister and theologian (d. 1754) 1684 – Francesco Manfredini, Italian violinist and comp... |
wife Connie Booth co-wrote the sitcom Fawlty Towers, and he starred in it as Basil Fawlty. The series resulted in Cleese's receiving the 1980 BAFTA for Best Entertainment Performance, and in 2000 the show topped the British Film Institute's list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes. In a 2001 Channel 4 pol... | Flying Circus lasted four series, by the start of series 3, Cleese was growing tired of dealing with Chapman's alcoholism. He felt, too, that the show's scripts had declined in quality. For these reasons, he became restless and decided to move on. Though he stayed for the third series, he officially left the group befo... |
Jimmy Carruthers, Australian boxer (d. 1990) 1929 – Katherine Helmond, American actress and director (d. 2019) 1929 – Tony Lock, English cricketer (d. 1995) 1929 – Jovan Rašković, Serbian psychiatrist, academic, and politician (d. 1992) 1929 – Jiří Reynek, Czech poet and graphic artist (d. 2014) 1931 – Ismail Mahomed, ... | educator (d. 2013) 1924 – Edward Cassidy, Australian Roman Catholic cardinal priest (d. 2021) 1925 – Fernando de Szyszlo, Peruvian painter and sculptor (d. 2017) 1925 – Jean Raspail, French author and explorer (d. 2020) 1926 – Diana Lynn, American actress (d. 1971) 1928 – Pierre Mauroy, French educator and politician, ... |
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