Anniversaries

18th May 1897 (117 Years)

Frank Russell Capra, Italian-American film director, producer and writer of some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s and 1940s, was born.

19th May 1593 (421 Years)

Jacob Jordaens, Flemish painter and illustrator, was born.

19th May 1864 (150 Years)

Nathaniel Hawthorne, American novelist and short story writer, author of "The Scarlet Letter" died.

19th May 1918 (96 Years)

Ferdinand Hodler, one of the best-known Swiss painters of the nineteenth century, died.

19th May 1943 (71 Years)

WWII: Monday, May 1, 1944 is set as the date for the Normandy landings: D-Day. It would later be delayed over a month due to bad weather.

19th May 1980 (34 Years)

Nine people died following the massive eruption of Mount St Helens volcano in Washington State, USA.

19th May 1984 (30 Years)

John Betjeman, a British poet, writer and broadcaster, died.

20th May 1764 (250 Years)

Johann Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor, designed the Quadriga chariot driven by Victoria atop the Brandenburg Gate, is born.

20th May 1818 (196 Years)

William Fargo, American businessman and politician, co-founded Wells Fargo and American Express, was born.

20th May 1891 (123 Years)

First public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.

20th May 1913 (101 Years)

The first Chelsea Flower Show held in London.

20th May 1956 (58 Years)

Max Beerbohm, English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist best known today for his novel Zuleika Dobson, dies.

21st May 1844 (170 Years)

Henri Rousseau was born.

21st May 1932 (82 Years)

Amelia Earhart completes first female solo transatlantic flight.

21st May 1932 (82 Years)

Amelia Earhart completes first female solo transatlantic flight.

22nd May 1907 (107 Years)

Sir Laurence Olivier, actor, is born.

22nd May 1907 (107 Years)

Sir Laurence Olivier, actor, was born.

22nd May 1938 (76 Years)

William James Glackens, American realist painter and one of the founders of the Ashcan School of American art, died.

22nd May 1967 (47 Years)

Langston Hughes, American jazz poet, dies.

23rd May 1618 (396 Years)

Beginning of the Thirty Years War, it will last for 29 years, 11 months, and 22 days.

23rd May 1934 (80 Years)

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot dead by police.

24th May 1543 (471 Years)

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun at the centre of the universe, died.

24th May 1743 (271 Years)

Jean-Paul Marat, Swiss-French physician, journalist, and politician, involved in the French Revolution, was born.

24th May 1816 (198 Years)

Emanuel Leutze, German-born American artist, was born.

24th May 1819 (195 Years)

Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India, was born.

25th May 1693 (321 Years)

Madame Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, Comtesse de La Fayette, French author, died.

25th May 1895 (119 Years)

Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons", and sentenced to serve two years in prison.

26th May 1867 (147 Years)

Mary of Teck, Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India as the wife of King-Emperor George V, was born.

26th May 1867 (147 Years)

Mary of Teck, Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India as the wife of King-Emperor George V, was born.

26th May 1926 (88 Years)

Miles Davis, ,American trumpet player, composer and band leader, was born.

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