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#OnThisDay 1794 the royal family went to the opera to hear 'the famous singer' Brigida Giorgi Branti. She rounded off the evening with a rendition of God Save the King 'as if she were a native of England'
#twitterstorians #royals #entertainment
Born #OnThisDay in 1857: British composer #EdwardElgar (1857-1934)
Portrait by #WilliamRothenstein (1872-1945), 1919
#Elgar #BritishComposers
#TodayInMystery 455CE
The Vandals lay waste to #Rome. The malevolent Emperor, who had already been killed by a mob, had infuriated the Germanics by cancelling his step-daughter's engagement to their prince in favor of his own son.
#onthisday #otd #todayinhistory #history
Happy Birthday to Isaac Davis, born on this day in 1799. (June 2, 1799 - April 1, 1883)
Sketches by Travis Simpkins
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#IsaacDavis #WorcesterClub #WorcesterMA #WorcesterHistoricalMuseum #WHM #OnThisDay #history #otd #TravisSimpkins #art #sketch
Born #OnThisDay 2Jun1840 English novelist Thomas Hardy was a Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot and was highly critical of much in Victorian society, especially on the declining status of rural people in Britain. #EngHist #BritishHist
Born #OnThisDay in 1861: #HelenHerronTaft (1861-1943), First Lady of the USA as spouse of #WilliamHowardTaft
Portrait by Karl Bror Albert Kronstrand (1875-1950), 1910
#NellieTaft #Taft
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Died #OnThisDay 1Jun1815 James Gillray - Prince of Caricaturist - Francis Grose, the famous English antiquarian and lexicographer, wrote a book titled "Rules for Drawing Caricatures" and in it he offered ... https://t.co/7vjoBxpaqk #gillray
Charles V announcing the capture of Tunis to Pope Paul III in 1535. #OTD #OnThisDay #History
Born #OnThisDay in 1498: Netherlandish painter #MaartenvanHeemskerck (1498-1574)
Portrait of Emmetje Teunisdr. van Souburgh (ca. 1501-63), 1535-44
#Heemskerck #NetherlandishArt #NorthernRenaissance
Painting by Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg of the victory of the 1st Coalition on the Glorious First of June (#OnThisDay 1794).
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On 1 June 1794, the British and French Fleets began an exchange of gunfire, out in the Atlantic, more than 400 miles from the French coast.
Learn more about The Battle of the Glorious, and its Greenwich connections: https://t.co/uNElu2oWo4
#OnThisDay #DidYouKnow
#TodayInMystery 455CE
Petronius Maximus is killed by a mob while fleeing in panic from the imminent sacking of #Rome. The Emperor infuriated the Vandals by cancelling his step-daughter's engagement to their prince in favor of his own son.
#onthisday #otd #todayinhistory #history
Happy Birthday to Walt Whitman, born on this day in 1819.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
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#WaltWhitman #LeavesOfGrass #poet #poetry #SongOfMyself #OCaptainMyCaptain #CivilWar #AmericanHistory #history #OnThisDay #otd #TravisSimpkins #art #portrait #sketch
Born #onthisday1872 W. Heath Robinson English #cartoonist #illustrator & #artist best known for drawing whimsically elaborate machines to achieve simple objectives "Heath Robinson" entered popular usage during WWI to describe any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance,
Died #OnThisDay 30May1894, Laura Bell was a courtesan who bewitched the Nepalese Prime Minister and then later became an evangelist and worked w/William Gladstone to save London’s prostitutes. https://t.co/aJyZVDRNeq #19thcentury #history
On 29th May 1990, the Russian parliament elected Boris Yeltsin as president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
FULL VIDEO ON COLD WAR HERE: https://t.co/v4UIk5oM8W
#onthisday #history #mannymandoeshistory #coldwar #endofanera #borisyeltsin #russia #moscow
Died #OnThisDay 29May1829 #HumphreyDavy, a Cornish chemist and inventor, who is best remembered today for isolating a series of substances for the first time and is famous for his experiments with laughing gas, https://t.co/7k5OvejS4e #chemist #19thcentury
#OnThisDay in 1982, the Scorpions 8th studio album "Blackout" peaked at #10 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart, their highest chart position in the US to that point. It would go on to be certified platinum #80sMetal #ClassicRock
Happy 4th Anniversary of Steven Universe 1-hour special event “Wanted” 🎉🌸🌹⭐️ It aired on @cartoonnetwork in May 29th, 2017 💕🌟🎊😊 I love this special where Steven is saving Lars in Gem Homeworld 💖💎 #StevenUniverse #OnThisDay
#OnThisDay in 1982, Survivor released their classic track "Eye of The Tiger" as a single from their 3rd album and the theme song from Rocky III. One of the great songs of the #80s, it spent 6 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was the #2 song for the year 1982 #ClassicRock