Post by shaliby on Apr 16, 2024 16:26:27 GMT
ToDay : April 16th
= EVENTS =
1457 BC – Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Megiddo_(15th_century_BC)
73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish–Roman War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masada
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_War
1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Culloden
= BIRTHS=
1646 – Jules Hardouin-Mansart, French architect (probable;[ d. 1708)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Hardouin-Mansart
1844 – Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatole_France
1889 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (d. 1977)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin
1919 – Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2009)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merce_Cunningham
1921 – Peter Ustinov, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ustinov
1922 – Kingsley Amis, English novelist, poet, and critic (d. 1995)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley_Amis
1924 – Henry Mancini, American composer and conductor (The Pink Panther Theme )(d. 1994)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Mancini
=DEATHS =
1788 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French mathematician, cosmologist, and author (b. 1707)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_de_Buffon
1828 – Francisco Goya, Spanish-French painter and illustrator (b. 1746)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Goya
1850 – Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor, founded the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (b. 1761)[53]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Tussaud
1859 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and philosopher, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1805)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville
1879 – Bernadette Soubirous, French nun and saint (b. 1844)[54]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadette_Soubirous
1991 – David Lean, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lean
= EVENTS =
1457 BC – Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Megiddo_(15th_century_BC)
73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish–Roman War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masada
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_War
1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Culloden
= BIRTHS=
1646 – Jules Hardouin-Mansart, French architect (probable;[ d. 1708)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Hardouin-Mansart
1844 – Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatole_France
1889 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (d. 1977)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin
1919 – Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2009)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merce_Cunningham
1921 – Peter Ustinov, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ustinov
1922 – Kingsley Amis, English novelist, poet, and critic (d. 1995)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsley_Amis
1924 – Henry Mancini, American composer and conductor (The Pink Panther Theme )(d. 1994)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Mancini
=DEATHS =
1788 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French mathematician, cosmologist, and author (b. 1707)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Louis_Leclerc,_Comte_de_Buffon
1828 – Francisco Goya, Spanish-French painter and illustrator (b. 1746)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Goya
1850 – Marie Tussaud, French-English sculptor, founded the Madame Tussauds Wax Museum (b. 1761)[53]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Tussaud
1859 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and philosopher, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1805)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville
1879 – Bernadette Soubirous, French nun and saint (b. 1844)[54]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernadette_Soubirous
1991 – David Lean, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lean