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#OnThisDay in 1633, Galileo is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse and detest" his Copernican heliocentric views
#OnThisDay in 1850, Poet laureate Alfred Tennyson (40) weds Emily Sellwood (36).
#OnThisDay in 1928, Maurice Sendak, illustrator & writer of children's books ("Where the Wild Things Are") was born
Sketches by Japanese artist Yoshitoshi, who died #onthisday in 1892: https://t.co/IV2c0LvCas
John Everett Millais #bornonthisday 1829. The Prodigal Son, from The Parables, 1864 https://t.co/LmU7fE3pkr
#onthisday 8th June 1949 George Orwell published Nineteen Eighty-Four #nineteeneightyfour #georgeorwell #literature
Paul Gauguin was born #Onthisday. A great Post-impressionist painter who paved the way for primitivism
#OnThisDay 6 Jun 1944: D-Day: allied invasion of France begins (Normandy landings / Operation Neptune) #WW2
#OnThisDayInGaming 1993
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening - Game Boy version released. (JPN)
#retrogaming
Italian #artist Marco Ricci was born #OnThisDay in 1676.
Pic: "Southern Landscape at Twilight" @smbmuseum
#art
Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate in 1917, was born #OnThisDay in 1857
#onthisday 30th May 1814 Russian anarchist Mikhail Bukunin was born! #politics
American #artist Abbott Handerson Thayer died #OnThisDay in 1921.
Pic: "Angel" @americanart
#art #painting
Austrian #artist Hans Makart was born #OnThisDay in 1840.
Pic: "Abundantia" at the @MuseeOrsay
#art #painter
#onthisday in 1865 these two and 151 others sailed on the Mimosa to https://t.co/UpXgpYxCsM #Patagonia
#Onthisday: 115th marriage #anniversary of #artists Paula Becker and Otto Modersohn.
#OnThisDay in 1873 "The Snow Maiden" by Alexander Ostrovsky was premiered
Vasily Perov, "Melting Snow Maiden", 1879
#OnThisDay 22 May 1826: HMS Beagle leaves Plymouth on 1st voyage, under Capt Pringle Stokes https://t.co/NFvQW5x3Sp