Anniversaries

10th May 1977 (54 Years)

Joan Crawford, actress ranked 10th on the American Film Institutes's list of the greatest stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema, died.

10th May 1988 (43 Years)

The Degas sculpture "Petite danseuse de quatorze ans" (Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen) sold for 10.1 million.

10th May 2013 (18 Years)

One World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere.

11th May 1916 (115 Years)

Max Reger, German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher, dies.

12th May 1743 (288 Years)

Maria Theresa of Austria is crowned Queen of Bohemia.

12th May 1820 (211 Years)

Florence Nightingale, English social reformer and the founder of modern nursing, was born.

12th May 1918 (113 Years)

Julius Rosenberg, American spy, was born.

12th May 1936 (95 Years)

Frank Stella, American painter and printmaker, significant in the art movement called ”post-painterly abstraction”, is born.

12th May 1937 (94 Years)

George VI and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

12th May 2008 (23 Years)

Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and illustrator, died.

12th May 2016 (15 Years)

From the 12 to the 15 of May, to mark the birthday of Queen Elizabeth II, a magnificent celebration will take place at Windsor Castle.

13th May 1515 (516 Years)

Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich.

13th May 1717 (314 Years)

Maria Theresa Walburga Amalia Christina, the only female ruler of the Habsburg dominions and the last of the House of Habsburg, was born.

13th May 1842 (189 Years)

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan, English composer best known for his collaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado, was born.

13th May 1882 (149 Years)

Georges Braque, French cubist painter, is born.

13th May 1940 (91 Years)

Winston Churchill made his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.

13th May 1943 (88 Years)

WWII The Tunisian Campaign (also known as the Battle of Tunisia) ended.

14th May 1923 (108 Years)

Charles de Freycinet, French prime minister, dies.

14th May 1955 (76 Years)

The Warsaw Pact, a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, was signed.

14th May 1987 (44 Years)

Rita Hayworth, American actress, singer, dancer, and producer, died.

15th May 1567 (464 Years)

Mary, Queen of Scots, marries James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, her third husband.

15th May 1567 (464 Years)

Claudio Monteverdi, Italian priest and composer, was born.

15th May 1648 (383 Years)

End of the Thirty Years War, it lasted for 29 years, 11 months, and 22 days.

15th May 1935 (96 Years)

Kazimir Malevich, the Russian painter and art theoretician, died.

15th May 1936 (95 Years)

Ralph Steadman, English painter and illustrator, best known for his work with Hunter S. Thompson, is born.

15th May 1936 (95 Years)

Amy Johnson arrives back in England after a record-breaking return flight to Cape Town.

16th May 1919 (112 Years)

Liberace was born.

16th May 1929 (102 Years)

The 1st Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which honored the best films of 1927 and 1928, took place.

16th May 1949 (82 Years)

The painter William Nicholson, died.

16th May 1966 (65 Years)

The Communist Party of China issued the "May 16 Notice" marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

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