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#OTD -11/28/1520- Portuguese navigator #Magellan achieved the 1st #circumnavigation of the #globe by reaching the #Pacific #Ocean after passing thru the #SouthAmerican strait that now bears his name.
#OnThisDay #TIH
🖼️Discovery of the Strait of Magellan, Álvaro Casanova Zenteno
112 years ago today, there was a farewell ball for the #TerraNovaExpedition in Dunedin, New Zealand. I had good fun imagining what that would have been like ...
#illustration #history #OnThisDayInHistory #Dunedin #NewZealand #ScottExpedition #FarewellTo… https://t.co/3WdNTsEybl
Born #onthisday1757 William Blake English #poet #painter & #printmaker Largely unrecognised during his lifetime Blake now considered a seminal figure in history of poetry & visual arts of the Romantic Age Major works inc. Newton (1795-1805) Satan (1789) Blake’s Cottage (c1804-10)
Born #onthisday1886 Tsuguharu Foujita Japanese–French #painter #printmaker & #etcher applied Japanese ink techniques to Western style paintings Foujita was "most important Japanese artist working in the West during the 20th century" Foujita’s Book of Cats 1 of Top 500 rare books
Born #onthisday1875 Isabel May Tweddle Australian #painter interested in #Post-Impressionist art Member of Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors exhibited at Victorian Artists Society exhibited works from trip to Solomon Islands New Guinea & Japan in London
Happy 6th Anniversary of The Loud House Christmas Special episode "11 Louds a Leapin'" 🏡🧡🎄🎉 it aired on @Nickelodeon in November 25, 2016 🎅❤️🏠💚🎊 I Love how the Loud Family is celebrating Christmas. 🎅🧡🎄 #TheLoudHouse #OnThisDay #Happy6thAnniversary
This #Thanksgiving, be sure to send your holiday greetings by Radiogram!
(Poster encouraging U.S. servicemen in occupied #Japan to call home #OnThisDay in 1949. Further details via @hagleymuseum: https://t.co/vBBwBuvH99)
#histSTM #radio #RCA
#telecommunications #turkey
Born #OnThisDay in 1819: English writer #MaryAnnEvans aka #GeorgeEliot (1819-80)
Portrait by #CarolineBray (1814-1905), 1842
#EnglishLiterature #Womenwriters #Victorian
Born #OnThisDay in 1602: #ElisabethofFrance (1602-44), Queen of Spain as spouse of #PhilipIV, daughter of #HenriIV
Portrait by Diego #Velázquez (1599-1660), ca. 1631-2
#IsabeldeBorbon #Bourbon #Habsburg
FELIZ ANIVERSÁRIO @DrawPotatoes !!!!!!!!!!!!!! orugio tbm te deseja feliz aniversario *bonk
espero que teu dia seja bom 💕
#CarolisDay
Released today in 2005, the Grammy nominated 'Dirty Harry' by @gorillaz Ft @bootiebrownOG
#OnThisDay #Gorillaz #BootieBrown #DangerMouse #DamonAlbarn
William Tierney Clark's Széchenyi Chain Bridge, Budapest opened #onthisday in 1849. You can see original drawings and correspondence online at https://t.co/uMUmIkxt82 thanks to ICE R&D fund project and Budapest History Museum (BTM). Or read about it here https://t.co/eudmR5B8OJ
Today marks 22 years since Banjo-Tooie by Morgan Andersson was released . It was published in 2000. #onthisdayreleased #morganandersson #banjotooie
#OnThisDay
52年前の1970年11月20日、エマーソン・レイク&パーマーのファースト・アルバム『Emerson, Lake & Palmer』がリリースされた。「Lucky Man」(US48位)がヒット、アルバム・チャートは全英4位/全米18位。
#EmersonLakeAndPalmer
Released today in 2007, @gorillaz - D-Sides. What is your favourite track?
#OnThisDay #Gorillaz #DamonAlbarn
Born #OnThisDay in 1584: Southern Netherlandish Baroque Painter #GaspardeCrayer (1584-1669)
Equestrian Portraitof #PhilipIV (1605-65), King of Spain, ca. 1628-32
#deCrayer #SouthernNetherlandishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1584: Southern Netherlandish Baroque Painter #GaspardeCrayer (1584-1669)
Portrait by Anthony #vanDyck (1599-1641), 1627-35
#deCrayer #SouthernNetherlandishArt