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#OTD 1960 Enfield Telephone Exchange goes automatic, last manual switch of its type in London . https://t.co/lZdECJreWQ #sminfoage #archives
OTD 1795 some merriment at #Brighton as the Prince of Wales & Lady Jersey watch Sir John Lade win a wager to carry overweight butt-naked Lord Cholmondeley twice around the Steine
#OTD in 1902 (2 Oct), Beatrix Potter's The Tale of Peter Rabbit was published. Peter is the world’s oldest licensed literary character.
George Cruikshank, British caricaturist and book illustrator was born #otd 1792.
"I Have Measured Out My Life With #Coffee Spoons" #TSEliot #Poet Born #OTD 26 Sept 1888. https://t.co/h9QVznjxJt
Swiss-German artist Paul Klee, who died #OTD 1940, went to Tunisia in 1914 ~ “the colour possesses me”, he said
#OTD 1944 USS West Virginia BB48 rejoins fleet. 1of5 battleships repaired @ Puget Sound Navy Yard aft. PearlHarbor attack @PSNSandIMF #WWII
#otd 1551 Birth of Henri III at Fonatinebleau, future king of France and Poland, also known for cross-dressing, favouring his mignons & more
Jean Baptiste Leprince
* 17.9.1734; † 30.9.1781
The Fortune Teller
#OTD #ArteYArt
@peterschiedam @lisamyway @Spiros209 @Sashainua @dianadep1
#OTD - 1830: William Huskisson MP is fatally injured at the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway
#OTD 1804, #ornithologist & #artist John Gould was born https://t.co/R5TBc19iHi. View the #collection.. #birds
OTD 1814: Start of attack on Baltimore by a British squadron under Vice Ad. Sir Alexander Cochrane.
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec died, aged just 36, #OTD 1901 ~ Salon in Rue des Moulins / & getting it expertly appraised