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#OnThisDay 18 August 1654 a committee chaired by John Disbrowe was appointed to prepare the Western Design, an attack by the Protectorate on Spanish colonial territories in the Caribbean. The strategy was misconceived and poorly planned, ending in failure. #17thCentury #OTD
#OnThisDay in 2007, Phineas and Ferb premiered on Disney Channel! Happy 15th anniversary!
Born #OnThisDay in 1695: Swedish painter #GustafLundberg (1695-1786)
Portrait of Juliana Dorotea Schröder, née Henck (1733-92), ca. 1750
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Born #OnThisDay in 1695: Swedish painter #GustafLundberg (1695-1786)
Portrait of Lady Werner
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Born #OnThisDay in 1695: Swedish painter #GustafLundberg (1695-1786)
Portrait of Baroness Ulrica Fredrika Cedercreutz, 1770
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Happy 15th Anniversary of Phineas and Ferb ❤️🎉💚 the series premiered on @DisneyChannel in August 17, 2007 ❤️🎊💚
I remember first watched Phineas and Ferb since back in 2008 but it ended in 2015. ❤️🎊💚 #PhineasAndFerb #OnThisDay #Happy15thAnniversary
Born #OnThisDay in 1695: Swedish painter #GustafLundberg (1695-1786)
Portrait of Adolf Ludvig Gustav Albert Couschi #Badin (ca. 1747-1822), 1775
#Lundberg #SwedishArt #PeopleOfColourInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1695: Swedish painter #GustafLundberg (1695-1786)
Portrait of Baron Johan Wilhelm Sprengporten (1720-95)
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Born #OnThisDay in 1695: Swedish painter #GustafLundberg (1695-1786)
Portrait of #LouisXV (1710-74), King of France, 1735-1740
#Lundberg #SwedishArt
#OnThisDay 17 August 1658, after a bout of ill health exacerbated by the shock of his daughter Elizabeth’s death, Oliver Cromwell's health improved enough to go riding in Hampton Court Park where he met George Fox, who said that he looked “like a dead man". #17thcentury #OTD
Elvis Aaron Presley
Jan 8, 1935 – Aug 16, 1977
#Elvis
#ElvisDay
#ElvisWeek2022
Happy 2nd Anniversary of Amphibia episode “Marcy at the Gates” 🎉💚 it aired on @DisneyChannel in August 15, 2020 🎊🐸 I love how Anne reunites her best friend Marcy. 💚😊🐸 #Amphibia #OnThisDay #Happy2ndAnniversary #MarcyWu
Born #OnThisDay in 1769: #NapoleonBonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of the French as #NapoleonI
Portrait as King of Italy by #AndreaAppiani (1754-1817), 1805
#Napoleon #Bonaparte
Born #OnThisDay in 1769: #NapoleonBonaparte (1769-1821), Emperor of the French as #NapoleonI
Portrait Crossing the Alps by #JacquesLouisDavid (1748-1825), 1801
#Napoleon #Bonaparte
Landscape painter Claude-Joseph Vernet was born #OnThisDay 1714. He spent 20 years in Italy, working for an international clientele. "Peintre du Roi" under Louis XV, Vernet's marine compositions gained a huge reputation, especially those depicting stormy seas and shipwrecks. 🌊
#HappyBirthday to Philip J. Fry from #Futurama
Fry was #BornOnThisDay, August 14th, 1974. Internet sleuths deducted the date from Season 3, Episode 4 "The Luck of the Fryrish" when Fry was born at the exact time The New York Mets beat the Los Angeles Dodgers
#OnThisDay in 1947 Pakistan achieved independence and was declared a sovereign state following the end of British rule.
Learn more about our collections @britishlibrary including this panorama of Lahore https://t.co/8vezJZ1dSD
#75yearsofIndependence
Geologist William Buckland died #onthisday 1856. Fieldwork and teaching had been his twin passions @HOGGroup @morethanadodo @UniofOxford
Born #onthisday1950 Gary Larsen American #cartoonist Creator of iconic The Far Side an internationally syndicated single panel cartoon to 1,900+ newspapers for 15 years His 23 collections of cartoons have sold 45+ million copies Awarded Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award (1985) (1988)
Born #onthisday1714 Claude-Joseph Vernet French #painter Created #landscapes & #seascapes immersed human figures in his foreground brining scenes featuring storms seaports moonlight & large whales to life particularly popular amongst English aristocrats on the Grand Tour