What happened on this day in history ? Events, Births, Death

Thanks, Bella !

Fidel Castro . I have a friend who's parents fled Castro .While she is liberal & a feminist she turns into a right wing fanatic at the mention of Castro's name. I avoid the subject with her !

Margaux Hemingway .Tragic story . Her sister Mariel had a movie on about the family on the Oprah channel . Margaux was another victim of suicide that runs in the family .

John McEnroe. Tennis star but too intense & an angry athlete .I dabble in tennis .

Kyoto Protocol .The US never signed on , I guess many don't want to do anything about green house gases

Thanks, Moi and SD !

ToDay : February 18th




= EVENTS =
1861 – With Italian unification almost complete, Victor Emmanuel II of Piedmont, Savoy and Sardinia assumes the title of King of Italy.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_unification

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Emmanuel_II_of_Italy

1885 – Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventures_of_Huckleberry_Finn

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain




= BIRTHS =
1745 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, invented the battery (d. 1827)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Volta

1848 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American stained glass artist (d. 1933)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Comfort_Tiffany

1883 – Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek philosopher, author, and playwright (d. 1957)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Kazantzakis

1906 – Hans Asperger, Austrian pediatrician and academic (d. 1980)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Asperger

1931 – Toni Morrison, American novelist and editor, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2019).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison

1932 – Miloš Forman, Czech-American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2018)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo%C5%A1_Forman

1933 – Yoko Ono, Japanese-American multimedia artist and musician

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Ono

1964 – Matt Dillon, American actor

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Dillon




= DEATHS =
1455 – Fra Angelico, Italian priest and painter (b. 1395)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fra_Angelico

1546 – Martin Luther, German priest and thelogian, leader of the Protestant Reformation (b. 1483)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther

1564 – Michelangelo, Italian sculptor and painter (b. 1475)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo

1967 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (b. 1904)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer

1982 – Ngaio Marsh, New Zealand author (b. 1895)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ngaio_Marsh

Lots of interesting things today .

HUCKELBERRY FINN . Never read it but know it is a classic in American literature .I should write my own version about growing up in the country that wud be shocker .

Alessandro Volta .Now I know where the world voltage comes from .

Yoko Ono . Who was more full of themselves her or John Lennon ? However seeing how conformist/crippling how Japanese culture is refreshing to see a rebel if only a big phony rebel .

Matt Dillon .Gorgeous but too generic good looking guy for me . His name was also the name of the hero on the western tv show GUNSMOKE .

Hans Asperger .Know I know where the medical term comes from .

Michelangelo . A genius who's work we saw lots of in Italy .

ToDay : February 19th


= EVENTS =
1915 – World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_operations_in_the_Dardanelles_Campaign

1953 – Book censorship in the United States: The Georgia Literature Commission is established.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_censorship_in_the_United_States

1959 – The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus

1963 – The publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique reawakens the feminist movement in the United States as women's organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Friedan

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feminine_Mystique

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminist_movement




= BIRTHS =
1473 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Prussian mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus

1743 – Luigi Boccherini, Italian cellist and composer (Minuet )(d. 1805)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Boccherini

1876 – Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian-French sculptor, painter, and photographer (d. 1957)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Br%C3%A2ncu%C8%99i

1896 – André Breton, French poet and author (Surrealist Manifesto) (d. 1966)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Breton

1917 – Carson McCullers, American novelist, short story writer, playwright, and essayist (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter )(d. 1967)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carson_McCullers

1924 – Lee Marvin, American actor (d. 1987)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Marvin

1929 – Jacques Deray, French director and screenwriter (d. 2003)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Deray

1958 – Helen Fielding, English author and screenwriter (creator of the fictional character Bridget Jones)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Fielding

1960 – Prince Andrew, Duke of York

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Andrew,_Duke_of_York



= DEATHS =

1951 – André Gide, French novelist, essayist, and dramatist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gide

1997 – Deng Xiaoping, Chinese politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (b. 1904)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping

2001 – Charles Trenet, French singer-songwriter (b. 1913)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Trenet

2016 – Umberto Eco, Italian novelist, literary critic, and philosopher (The Name of the Rose )(b. 1932)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_Eco

2016 – Harper Lee, American author (To Kill a Mocking Bird)(b. 1926)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper_Lee