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in 1705, Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge.

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Anatole France, French poet, journalist, and novelist (Nobel Prize, 1921), was born in Paris in 1844.

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Born 1452: Leonardo da Vinci, Italian painter, sculptor, scientist and… https://t.co/M0nq4PgD57

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in 1939, The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.

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Born in 1724 fr Gabriel de Saint-Aubin.
pic: The Country Dance, now at Getty Center

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Happy 189th birthday to the man behind the Museum, Augustus Pitt-Rivers born 1827 https://t.co/49fr4ryeRD

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in 1570, Guy Fawkes, English Catholic conspirator who planned the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, was born

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Harvey Ball, American illustrator, recognized as the earliest known designer of the smiley, died in 2001.

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"Vision is the true creative rhythm” —Robert Delaunay, cofounder of the cubist Orphism movement

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French court Antoine Coypel was born in 1661
pic: Democritus, 1692, now at

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Concordat between and , promulgated 1802

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Ardengo Soffici was born in 1879

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in 1520, Raphael, Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, dies on his 37th birthday.

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in 1732 british Jean-Honoré Fragonard

pic.: "The Musician Contest" at

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Maria Sibylla Merian, naturalist and scientific illustrator, born 1647

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Hans Christian Andersen, author of terrifying was born in 1805.

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Giacomo Casanova, famed adventurer, was born in 1725.

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Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Garden by John Constable, who died in 1838…

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