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#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)
"Everything starts from a dot." - Wassily Kandinsky, one of the pioneers of abstract modern art #BornOnThisDay :-)
Franz von Lenbach, born #OnThisDay 1836, built @Lenbachhaus at the height of his fame. Today it is an art gallery https://t.co/lVBWcWGyUk
@boijmans is the only museum in the Netherlands to own an Edvard Munch painting. The artist was born #onthisday in 1863 in Løten, Norway.
#onthisday 1866, 1:45pm- Engineer, Parkin Jeffcock, received a telegram stating “The Oaks pit is on fire. Come directly.” #whentheoaksfired
Was #Nelson our greatest naval hero? #OnThisDay Sam Hood born - Nelson called him "greatest Sea-Officer I ever knew" https://t.co/OabCM6AnTz
Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine was born #onthisday in 1712. #twitterstorians
Born on this day in 1928 - Helen Frankenthaler https://t.co/oKWaZVtwNs #abstractexpressionism #abstract #helenfrankenthaler #bornonthisday
#OnThisDay in 1911 Delhi replaced Calcutta as the capital of India. #HistoryFacts
#OnThisDay in 1906 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the mediation of the Russo-Japanese War
A woman appeared on an English public stage for the first time #OnThisDay in 1660, as #Desdemona in #Othello https://t.co/z01eHkwz7i
"For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence."
#OnThisDay in 1870, Alexandre Dumas ('The Count of Monte Cristo') dies at 68.
#OnThisDay in 1492 Christopher Columbus became the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (Haiti & the Dominican Republic)
#OnThisDay in 1791 The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, was published #HistoryFacts
"Just one more lamprey... Aarrgh!" #OnThisDay 1135 King Henry I died after ignoring doctor's orders: https://t.co/U100Xwc06U
#OnThisDay in 1919, Nancy Astor became the first woman to take her seat in parliament. Here she is in 1920 photographed by #OliveEdis