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#OnThisDay 1914 a @RoyalNavy Force under Vice Admiral Doveton Sturdee defeated a German force under Admiral Graf Von Spee at the Battle of the Falkland Islands. @hms_kent @FalklandsGov
Born #onthisday1756 Cornelius van Spaendonck Dutch #artist Head of Sèvres porcelain works Became member Académie des Beaux-Arts (1789) Prdeominantly #painted in oils & gouache & is remembered for his lush evocative #stilllifes of flowers Left 29 paintings in studio at his death
On this day in 2008 American pin-up model Bettie Page (85) is hospitalized in critical condition after suffering a heart attack. #ZombieArt #BettiePage #ZombiePortraits #fetish #FetishModel #PinupGirl #ZombiePinup #RobSacchettoArt #SacchettoZombieArt #QueenOfPinup #OnThisDay
#OnThisDay 6 December 1642 Royalist forces under William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle defeated Ferdinando, Lord Fairfax at #Tadcaster, leaving Parliamentarian forces in Yorkshire divided. Newcastle then took the opportunity to secure Pontefract. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD
#TodayInMystery 1941
Painter Amrita Sher-Gil dies suddenly of #unknonwn causes at age 28 in #Lahore. Given the cultural impact of her relatively small oeuvre, she might have been among the most prominent #artists of the century.
#mystery #unsolved #OnThisDay #OTD #arthistory
Principal Sam's Calendar
December 5
Happy Birthday Hagrid!
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Here's my first book: https://t.co/7ClmeYGrpY
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#OnThisDay 5 December 1659 London apprentices presented a petition demanding the return of Parliament and an election. Soldiers were attacked as a riot broke out. Col. Hewson ordered his troops to fire on the mob; a number of apprentices were killed or wounded. #17thCentury #OTD
On this day in 2018, David Attenborough warns collapse of civilization and the natural world on the horizon at UN climate summit in Poland #ZombieArt #ZombiePlanet #Earth #RobSacchettoArt #ZombieArtist #horror #OnThisDay #history #planet #artwork
On this day in 1967, 1st human heart transplant performed in South Africa by Dr Christiaan Barnard on Louis Washkansky #heart #transplant #HumanHeart #ZombieArt #ZombiePortraits #OnThisDay #RobSacchettoArt #SacchettoZombieArt #history
Died #OnThisDay 1748 Charles Seymour "Proud" duke of #Somerset.
Both he & his duchess were major figures at the court of Queen Anne
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#favourite #HistParl #18thcentury
#OnThisDay 1135
Doctor: I wouldn't eat any more lampreys if I were you.
King Henry I: I think people in this country have had enough of experts.
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Known as the most successful female #playwright of the eighteenth century, #SusannaCentlivre died #onthisday way way back in 1723.
#otd #writer #poet #actress #theater #DruryLane #SusannaCarroll #SusannaFreeman #Centlivre
#OnThisDay in 1903, couturier & costume designer Alix was born in Paris. A.k.a. #MadameGrès, she was known for her cunningly draped garments, such as this pink jersey dress (c. 1938). See it in #SilverScreenChi, open now thru Jan. 21. https://t.co/odqVlShzfc #CHMCostumeCouncil
#OscarWilde died #OnThisDay in 1900. In 1895 Wilde was sentenced to 2 years hard labour after being found guilty of ‘gross indecency’
See the cell door from Wilde's cell at Reading Gaol in our museum and stand on the Bow St dock where Wilde once stood
Illustration: @BaubleRob
#onthisday 1729 – Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi. Reminding us that not all massacres were carried out by white settlers.
#OnThisDay, 28 November 1974, YES released their seventh studio album, Relayer!
What is your favourite moment from the Relayer album?
Mathematician Ada Lovelace died #OnThisDay in 1852. She is considered the first #computer programmer. She was an associate of Charles Babbage for whose prototype of a #digital computer she created a program
“The more I study, the more insatiable do I feel my genius for it to be.”
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)
On this day in 2002, Treasure Planet came out in theaters. #OnThisDay #TreasurePlanet