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#onthisdayillustrated Feb 26th, 1995: Securities broker Nick Leeson, loses $1.4 billion collapsing Baring's Bank
#OnThisDay in 1989, #DaleCooper entered Twin Peaks. #TwinPeaksDay starts with a #TwinPeaks #Marathon (Season 1)!
#onthisdayillustrated Feb 23rd, 1739: Richard Palmer is identified by former schoolteacher, as highwayman Dick Turpin
The “beloved” American Nobel Prize author Toni Morrison was born #OnThisDay in 1931.
Michelangelo died #OnThisDay in 1564. Visit 'The Entombment' in room 8: http://t.co/rdmZU4gO0W
#OnThisDay in 1564, Galileo Galilei (physicist, mathematician, engineer, astronomer, ...) was born in Pisa, Italy.
#onthisdayillustrated Feb 11th, 1989: #NelsonMandela released from prison. #SouthAfrica #freedom #civilrights #art
Henriette de France, one of the twins of Versailles, died at 25 #onthisday. #twitterstorians http://t.co/Jwj2YH8CMJ
"A weary traveller": The death of Queen Anne, who was born #onthisday. #twitterstorians http://t.co/cWaQo9750A
#OnThisDay in 1653, New Amsterdam becomes a city (later renamed New York).
#HappyBirthdayNY!
Polygraphiae (1518) by Johannes Trithemius. The first printed book on cryptography.
He was born #OnThisDay in 1462.
#OnThisDay 1813 in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice was first published.
#onthisdayillustrated Jan 10th 1929 @Tintin one of the most popular #comic books is first published in Belgium #art
Madame de Pompadour was born #OnThisDay in 1721. See Drouais' painting of her in Room E: http://t.co/ao0IfeLcza
#HappyBirthday to French artist Maurice Utrillo, who was born #OnThisDay in 1883. "Marizy-Sainte-Geneviève," c. 1910
Happy Birthday #Kandinsky! Born in Moscow, 148 years ago, today. "Composition VIII" (1923) @Guggenheim #bornonthisday
Happy Birthday #Kandinsky! Born in Moscow, 148 years ago, today. "Composition VIII" (1923) @Guggenheim #bornonthisday
Italian painter Paolo Uccello died #OnThisDay in 1475. 'Saint George and the Dragon' is part of our collection.
#BornOnThisDay in 1598: leading sculptor of the Baroque age. Gian Lorenzo #Bernini. More here http://t.co/f5qFqtWXVA
Joyeux Anniversaire, Toulouse-Lautrec! #BornOnThisDay #art #culture "Au Salon de la Rue des Moulins" 1894-95