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#OnThisDay in 1778, British explorer James Cook is the first European to go to the Hawaiian Islands and names it the "Sandwich Islands".
#ArtonThisDay feat. #paintings, #photographs or #prints of the iconic model Kate Moss, who was born #OTD in 1974 : https://t.co/FiY9Y7m81S
Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi was born #OnThisDay 1741 https://t.co/BNa8eJTK6n
“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Lewis Carroll died #OnThisDay in 1898.
The most celebrated 19th-century French painter of flower still lifes, Ignace-Henri-Théodore Fantin-Latour was born #OnThisDay in 1836.
Fanny Burney, lady of letters and quintessential Georgian, died #onthisday in 1840. #twitterstorians
#OnThisDay in 1825, 23-year-old Alexandre Dumas ("The Count of Monte Cristo") fights his first duel.
His pants fall down in the fight.
Aristarkh Lentulovajor, major #Russian #avantgarde #artist of #Cubist orientation, was born #OnThisDay in 1882.
Happy birthday Jacob Grimm! The elder of the brotherly folklorist duo was born #onthisday in Hanau, Germany, 1785: https://t.co/l4e9CEFds6
August Macke, member of the famous #German #Expressionist group 'Der Blaue Reiter' was born #OnThisDay in 1887. 'Two Girls' @staedelmuseum
Born #OnThisDay 2Jan1713 – Marie Dumesnil, #French #Actress, known for Her Dramatic Performances.
#OnThisDay in 1793, over a year after Mozart's death, the completed Requiem received its first public performance
#OliveEdis died #OnThisDay in 1955 - this image from the late 40s shows her as her photos & writing suggest - happy, sparkly & full of life
43 years ago "The Exorcist" was released. What an excellent day for an exorcism,eh? #OnThisDay #Horror #TheExorcist
Samuel de Champlain ("The Father of New France"), French navigator, cartographer and chronicler. died #OnThisDay in 1635.
#onthisday 22nd Dec 1808 in Vienna Beethoven premiered his 5th and 6th Symphonies https://t.co/oX7stGh8bO
French artist Anne Vallayer-Coster was born #OnThisDay 1744. Read more about her works in our collections https://t.co/as6dJsBfVB
Masaccio, #Italian #master of the #Renaissance, was born #OnThisDay in 1401. "The Tribute Money" (1425) @BrancacciChapel #art #quattrocento
#OnThisDay #100years ago the Lord Lyon granted @Fettes_College the use of the arms of their principal benefactor William #Fettes (rec. 1804)
Wassily #Kandinsky was born #onthisday 150 years ago. See his "Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle)," 1913, on view in our East Building galleries.