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On this day otd 10th August 1778 Mozart completed Eine Kleine Nachtmusik #mozart #classicalmusic
1819 Aug 9: William Thomas Green Morton was born. He demonstrated ether anesthesia in Boston in Oct 1846 https://t.co/Y3pBnjVyIh Died 1868 #histmed #OTD
#otd in 1588 Elizabeth I gave what is now known as the Tilbury's speech. It would become a key feature in her image as a warrior queen in centuries to come.
Try to find her in this painting entitled _Elizabeth I and the Spanish Armada_ attributed to Nicholas Hilliard
'The Bard of Bengal', Rabindranath Tagore died #OTD 1941: “Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.” #StrayBirds
Alfred Tennyson — born #onthisday in 1809 — enjoying a swing while his "poetic fancy" sparkles in the night sky. From a 19th-century book of celebrity cartoons: https://t.co/5h182DQ5td #OTD
The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh accepted its first patient #OTD 1729. When its new home was completed in 1748 it included ’12 Cells for mad People’ #Moonstruck
#otd 1986, HRH Princess Anne rode Gulfland to win the 3.45 at Redcar; her first victory as a jockey. In our #archives, we have this great illustration of her looking delighted at her win by John Ireland © The Lennard Publishing Collection @Mary_Evans #RoyalFamily #racing
5 August 1100: Three days after the death of his brother, King William Rufus, Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey, promising a return to the laws of Edward the Confessor.
Henry’s older brother Robert ‘Curthose’ remains Duke of Normandy.
#OTD #OnThisDay
Hollywood icon #MarilynMonroe died from a #drugoverdose #onthisday in 1962.
#otd #blondebombshell #sexsymbol #actress #model #singer #fashion #NormaJeaneMortenson #NormaJeaneBaker #Playboy #centerfold #SomeLikeItHot #GentlemenPreferBlondes #TheSevenYearItch #AllAboutEve
Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the major English Romantic poets, was born #otd 1792
Happy birthday to the Dutch illustrator Thé Tjong-Khing, who was born #OTD in 1933.
OTD in 1871, ‘Ashcan School’ painter John Sloan is born. He chronicled the everyday life of the everyman/woman of #GreenwichVillage+the #EastVillage, as well as co-declaring “The Independent Republic of #WashingtonSquare.” Today we look at his life + art: https://t.co/pt55O0ShM8
30 July 1683, Marie-Thérèse d'Autriche, Queen of France as wife of Louis XIV, dies aged 44 due an infected abscess under her left arm. Her last words apparently were : "Since I became queen, I had only one happy day." #otd
#OTD 1900 - public train services began on the London Underground's Central Line. Here is the British Museum station under construction in 1898 https://t.co/FkvWTxx3xm @centralline
Wife of Bungaree, Queen Cora Gooseberry, died #OTD in 1853. She was buried in the Presbyterian section of the Devonshire Street Cemetery (now Central Station), and was later moved to the Botany Pioneer Park in 1901.
Read more: https://t.co/3EMQ9frJMI
#OTD in 1907, Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell held his first scouting camp, which led to the "Scout" movement the following year.
https://t.co/kyg6ztaMFv #stamps #philately #history #scouting @Scouts_Stamps @scouts @scoutscanada
#OTD in 1793, His Majesty’s Ship Mississauga prepared to sail for present-day Toronto, where John Graves Simcoe would envision a future fort and settlement named York.
https://t.co/PyiSRJRI6a #history #coins #numismatics #tokens #exonumia #Canada