Anniversaries

Abbe Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, astronomer who mapped the Southern Hemisphere, is born.

Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer, conductor of The Strauss Orchestra, dies.

Joseph Maurice Ravel, French composer, pianist and conductor, died.

The Peak District becomes the United Kingdom's first National Park.

Susan Sontag, American writer and filmmaker, professor and political activist, died.

Christina Rossetti, English poet known for writing a variety of romantic and children's poems, died.

In The Second Great Fire of London, the Luftwaffe fire-bombs London, killing almost 200 civilians.

Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, dies.

The English writer Rudyard Kipling is born. He is best known for his children stories.

Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic and healer closely associated to the Russian royal family, died.

Ronald Searle, British artist and satirical cartoonist, best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's School, dies.

Andreas Vesalius, the Flemish physician who wrote and illustrated the first comprehensive textbook of human anatomy, is born.

Emile Loubet, 8th president of France, is born.

Henri Matisse, the French artist and leader of the Fauvist movement, was born.

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