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Robert Stephenson was born #onthisday 1803. See images of his works on our Image Library https://t.co/sQEIFRb4iV
Director, producer, actress #PennyMarshall was #BornOnThisDay in 1943. I created this #design in her honor when she was featured on @tcm’s #TrailblazingWomenInFilm series hosted by @Illeanarama. #TCMParty #LetsMovie #BOTD
#OnThisDay in 1995, the Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders episode “For Whom the Bell Trolls” debuted. Watch it here: https://t.co/RBLRWSCMLs!
#jewelriders
#OnThisDay in 1988, Bon Jovi's amazing album "New Jersey" hit #1 on the Billboard charts, knocking Guns 'N Roses out of the top spot. The top 3 albums for the week of October 15th, 1988 were New Jersey, Appetite For Destruction and Hysteria! Now those were the days! #80s
"Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
First published #OnThisDay in 1926 and translated into 29 languages, Winnie the Pooh is a national treasure. Happy birthday Pooh (and Piglet, too!)
#LiteratureIsGREAT 🐻 🇬🇧
Did you know that the Swiss reformation leader Huldrych Zwingli was killed #onthisday in 1531 during the Battle of Kappel when Swiss Roman Catholic cantons beat protestant forces of Zurich? This image comes from our Zwingli Bible that we sold at TEFAF Maastricht this spring.
#OnThisDay 2010 @HMSDuncan, the last of the Type 45 Destroyers was launched @BAES_Maritime Govan 213 years to the day since Admiral Duncan defeated the Dutch at the Battle of Camperdown in HMS VENERABLE @RoyalNavy
#onthisday 732AD The Battle of Tours (France) where Charles Martel wins a battle against Muslim Invaders stopping any further expansion of the Muslim Caliphate into Europe.
#TodayInMystery 1871
Millions of acres are razed by firestorms in #Wisconsin & #Michigan lakeside towns, including Peshtigo, where over a thousand died. These #unsolved disasters have been eclipsed by #Chicago's Great Fire that began the same day.
#OnThisDay #OTD #TodayInHistory
Died #OnThisDay in 1856: #French #Romantic #painter Théodore #Chassériau (1819-56)
#Portrait #drawing of Madame Ravaisson, 1846
#ThéodoreChassériau #FrenchArt #Portraiture #Romanticism
#METMuseum
#OnThisDay 19 years ago, October 7, 2000: the episode "Big Time" aired on television.
Directed by @JTuckerAnimator
Story by @tomruegger & @b0bg00dman
#BatmanBeyond
#OnThisDay in 1895, actor and entertainer Buster Keaton was born.
https://t.co/b0o045KFAG
#ArtHistory 1927
Kenojuak Ashevak was #bornonthisday in what is now #Nunavut
"There is no word for #art [in Inuktitut]. We say it is to transfer something from the real to the unreal."
#artist #artists #fineart #modernart #painter #painting #paintings #illustration #botd #Canada
Cartoon portrait of artist and writer William Morris, who left this "earthly paradise" 123 years ago #onthisday. More caricatures of leading (male!) 19th-century figures featured in Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day (1873): https://t.co/OqsHCIBeYv
#ArtHistory 1893
#Bauhaus #artist Marianne Brandt was #bornonthisday in #Chemnitz.
#art #artists #fineart #modernart #kunst #collage #photography #photoart #bnwphotography #germanart #design #DiscoverHer #botd #onthisday #otd
Today in #history: Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. (331 BCE) #OnThisDay
Read more: https://t.co/eGngpKrLsE
Happy birthday Cervantes, author of one of the most frequently illustrated books of all time, #DonQuixote. Read Rachel Schmidt on how the varying approaches to illustrating it have reflected + impacted its reading through the centuries: https://t.co/LdPjxQXuTI #otd #onthisday
Remembering one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time, Miles Davis. Died on this day, 28 September 1991. Read more at https://t.co/NK7qPEaAPQ #Memoria #OnThisDay