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#OnThisDay The 19th Amendment was ratified giving women the right to vote.
#DonNewton is a world fav artist & #OnThisDay back in 1984, he sadly passed away. While his #Phantom is minimal compared to his #Batman & #DCcomics, his #Charlton work was instrumental. @HermesPress released a book all about Don, we've reviewed the book https://t.co/oRclw8ZMuQ
#OnThisDay 1759 Admiral Edward Boscawen engaged and defeated a French Fleet at the Battle of Lagos, off Portugal, during the 7 Years War. 2 current @RoyalNavy ships carry the Battle honour today. @HMSPortland and @HMSStAlbans The Cornishman was also the MP for #Truro
Quotable - Jessie Burton, born 17 August 1982. Read more here: https://t.co/MOVXoh7y8x #BornOnThisDay
#OnThisDay in 1479 Catherine of York was born as the daughter of Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville.
Norman Rockwell, "Distortion", August 13, 1921, Saturday Evening Post cover, private collection. © Curtis Licensing. #OTD #onthisday
Have you ever tried a fun distorting mirror?
Check back for more #OTD paintings by Norman Rockwell.
#OnThisDay in 1961, the Berlin Wall was erected.
https://t.co/rFU601HxxH
Born #OnThisDay 1756 in #Chelsea, James Gillray, pre-eminent caricaturist of the #Georgian period
#twitterstorians #arthistory
"What is now proved was once only imagined." William Blake passed away #onthisday 1827. #Art #Poetry
Today in History
August 12
2014 - Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall dies
On this day in 2014, actress Lauren Bacall, who shot to fame in her debut film, 1944’s “To Have and Have Not,” dies at her New York City home at age 89. #OnThisDay
Today in #history: The south-western part of Dacia (modern Romania) becomes a Roman province: Roman Dacia. (106 CE) #OnThisDay
Construction began on the Menai Suspension bridge #onthisday 1819, under the guidance of Thomas Telford. This was the longest suspension bridge at the time.
#OnThisDay 109 years ago our founder Rachel Lambert "Bunny" Mellon was born. At a young age she had quite the eye for all things beautiful- whether that be in art, books, or even nature. The legacy that she left behind at Oak Spring will carry on.
Happy Birthday, Bunny Mellon!
Louis de Freycinet was born #OnThisDay in 1779
Freycinet voyaged around the world in 1817-20, unusually accompanied by his wife Rose after she was able to pass as a man to be allowed on the ship
The ship, the L'Uranie was wrecked on the Falkland Islands in Feb 1820
#RareBooks
Died #OnThisDay in 1660: #Spanish #Baroque #painter Diego #Velázquez (1599-1660)
#Portrait of #PhilipIV #KingofSpain (1601-65) in in Fraga, 1644
#DiegoVelázquez #SpanishArt #Portraiture #Habsburg #FelipeIV #SpanishRoyalty
#FrickCollection
Alfred Tennyson — born #onthisday in 1809 — enjoying a swing while his "poetic fancy" sparkles in the night sky. From a 19th-century book of celebrity cartoons: https://t.co/5h182DQ5td #OTD
#OnThisDay back in 2000 the Sunday newspaper #Phantom stories got a big fresh breath of air with @gnolan12 starting. In a short period of time with #LeeFalk passing away less than a year prior it could have seen the end of the newspaper stories, thankfully it wasnt
5 August 1100: Three days after the death of his brother, King William Rufus, Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey, promising a return to the laws of Edward the Confessor.
Henry’s older brother Robert ‘Curthose’ remains Duke of Normandy.
#OTD #OnThisDay
Hollywood icon #MarilynMonroe died from a #drugoverdose #onthisday in 1962.
#otd #blondebombshell #sexsymbol #actress #model #singer #fashion #NormaJeaneMortenson #NormaJeaneBaker #Playboy #centerfold #SomeLikeItHot #GentlemenPreferBlondes #TheSevenYearItch #AllAboutEve
Incredibly talented Phoebe Anna Traquair died #OnThisDay in 1936: painter, enamellist, illuminator, embroiderer, jewellery-maker, book-binder. Tours of her spectacular murals at The Song School, St Mary's Cathedral & Mansfield Traquair Centre are on during Edinburgh Festival