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English-Russian writer and translator, Ivy Litvinov died in 1977

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🎮 Ghosts 'N Goblins
🕹️ ST version
📅 April 16th 1990
❓ Arthur the knight must rescue a Princess from a Demon King and his forces of undead, bats, ogres & goblins whilst traversing moving platforms, ladders & other hazards.

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For the Battle of Culloden, fought in 1746:
The Culloden Widow, cut paper collage
https://t.co/jGuX9U5gkM

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Carlo Carrà died in 1966.
In 1911, Carrà’s direct exposure to Cubism during a visit to Paris had a profound effect on the work of this artistic magpie, as illustrated by drawings such as Boxer (currently on display in Gallery 4) and Synthesis of a Café Concert.

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the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 was passed allowing Catholics to sit in
the Duke of Wellington worked tirelessly to ensure passage in the House of Lords, and threatened to resign as Prime Minister if the King did not give Royal Assent.

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1898
British-American artist Clare Leighton was in
"It is a greater act of faith to plant a bulb than to plant a tree."

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1782 Admiral Sir George Bridges Rodney in HMS FORMIDABLE with Rear Admiral Hood in HMS BARFLEUR and 36 ships inflicted a decisive defeat on the French at the Battle of the Saintes in the West Indies. The French suffered over 8000 lost & wounded & 5 ships

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1923
Dody Weston Thompson was in
"I like finding rather than accumulating... like an eternal treasure hunt of the eye."

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"Women are never passive in my movies… [they] are never victims!”

Happy birthday Nelly Kaplan

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IK Brunel was born 1806. Engineer for Great Western Railway, South Devon atmospheric railway SS Great Britain, Eastern and Western, Royal Albert Bridge and Clifton suspension bridge which was completed after his death.

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Artist & activist Joe Jones 1909 in St Louis, Missouri. Largely self-taught, he left school at 15 to work as a house painter. He lived for a while in a houseboat & painted several New Deal murals.Although a communist he was enlisted as a combat artist during WW2.

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18 years ago, April 7, 2001: the episode "Countdown" aired on television.
Directed by Kyung Won Lim
Written by Rich Fogel &

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1917
Leonora Carrington was in
“The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.”

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The Ancestor by Leonora Carrington who was born

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Raphael died in 1520. His “The Three Graces” (1517-18) ; part of the excellent show

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Napoleon abdicated in 1814. Thanks to Abba, we all know what happened to him!

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Happy Birthday to the great Fauvist Maurice de Vlaminck, and as the spring weather has so far decided to remain rather grey we thought Vlaminck’s ‘Nature morte’ (sold by Dickinson to a private collector) might provide some much needed colour!

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