Anniversaries

29th November 1842 (166 Years)

William Blake Richmond, painter and interior decorator, is born.

29th November 1924 (84 Years)

Giacomo Puccini, the Italian composer famous for operas like Madame Butterfly and La Boheme, died.

29th November 1986 (22 Years)

Cary Grant, English stage and Hollywood film actor, dies.

29th November 1996 (12 Years)

Dan Flavin, American minimalist artist who has worked mainly with fluorescent light, dies.

30th November 1016 (992 Years)

Edmund II King of England, also known as Edmund Ironside, died.

30th November 1874 (134 Years)

Winston Churchill, British Politician, army officer and writer leading the country during WW2 and again from 1951-55, was born.

30th November 1934 (74 Years)

The Flying Scotsman becomes the first train to reach 100mph.

30th November 1936 (72 Years)

In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.

1st December 1899 (109 Years)

Eileen Agar, British painter and photographer associated with the Surrealist movement, was born.

1st December 1913 (95 Years)

Henry Ford instituted moving assembly line.

1st December 1916 (92 Years)

Charles de Foucauld, French Catholic religious and priest living among the Tuareg in the Sahara in Algeria, dies.

1st December 1955 (53 Years)

A black woman, Rosa Parks, is arrested by police in Montgomery, Alabama, after refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white person. 60 years.

1st December 1955 (53 Years)

Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person.

1st December 1990 (18 Years)

Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.

2nd December 1814 (194 Years)

The Marquis de Sade, the French aristocrat, writer and philosopher known for his perverse sexual preferences and violent erotica from which the term 'sadism' is derived, died.

2nd December 1859 (149 Years)

Georges Pierre Seurat, the French post-Impressionist painter noted for innovative usage of colour and drawing media, was born.

2nd December 1863 (145 Years)

Charles Ringling, American circus owner, is born.

2nd December 1891 (117 Years)

Wilhelm Heinrich Otto Dix, a German painter and printmaker, famous for his ruthless and harshly realistic depictions of Weimar society and the brutality of war, was born in Gera (south of Leipzig).

2nd December 1918 (90 Years)

Edmond Rostand, French poet and playwright, died.

2nd December 1923 (85 Years)

Maria Callas, Greek-American soprano and one of the most influential opera singers of the 20th century was born in New York.

2nd December 1946 (62 Years)

Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer and founder of Gianni Versace S.p.A., an international fashion house, is born.

2nd December 1950 (58 Years)

I, Robot, a collection of nine science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov, was published for the first time.

3rd December 1368 (640 Years)

Charles VI of France was born.

3rd December 1818 (190 Years)

Illinois becomes the 21st U.S. state.

3rd December 1919 (89 Years)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, known worldwide as a leading painter in the impressionist style, died.

3rd December 1956 (52 Years)

Alexander Rodchenko, Russian artist, one of the founders of constructivism, dies.

4th December 1892 (116 Years)

Generalissimo Francisco Franco Bahamonde, Spanish dictator who ruled over Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975, was born.

4th December 1914 (94 Years)

Rudolf Hausner, an Austrian painter, draughtsman, print maker and sculptor, was born. Hausner has been described as the first psychoanalytical painter.

5th December 1443 (565 Years)

Pope Julius II, "The Warrior Pope", great patron for the arts (he commissioned the rebuilding of St. Peter's Basilica andMichelangelo's decoration of the Sistine Chapel) was born.

5th December 1766 (242 Years)

In London, James Christie held his first sale.

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