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Paolo Anesi
* 9.7.1697; † 1773
Colosseo
#OTD #ArteYArte
@1jrv1 @AntoniaPulpito @delucaGen88 @MarieFrettoloso @peterschiedam @UnholyEdgar
#OTD 1965 the GPO radiophone mobile telephone service opened in London with a call from Tony Benn to BBC Richard Dimbleby in his Rolls Royce
#OTD July 2 1944: USS Bremerton (CA 130) heavy cruiser launched. Named after @CityofBremerton to celebrate bond competition win! #WWII
#OTD 27.6.1743: In der Schlacht bei Dettingen im Österreichischen Erbfolgekrieg besiegen die verbündeten Österreicher & Briten die Franzosen
OTD 1754: John Jervis (later Earl of St Vincent) moved to HMS Severn (50) as a Midshipman
🆗💻⌨️@thecluny 26th August £5 advance / 7otd From https://t.co/Vs5tSoGiFd @RPMMusic @beatdownncl @REFLEX_CD_VINYL record shops #Radiohead
The man who made Napoleon miss his destiny in the East - Sir Sidney Smith, b. #otd 1764 https://t.co/yn0vvHkcuD
Groundbreaking woman landscape architect and co-designer of the DO gardens, Beatrix Farrand was born #OTD in 1872. https://t.co/GVMFkcK7vl
ああだから、私の家にもエッシャーはある。
画像は、若島正編『モーフィー時計の午前零時 -チェス小説アンソロジー』(国書刊行会、2009)。表紙カバーの絵は、エッシャーの『メタモルフォーゼII 』である。 #OTD 1898/6/17は、M.C.エッシャーの誕生日
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, the final collection, published #OTD 1927.
1963: #OTD, #ValentinaTereshkova became the 1st woman in #space aboard #Vostok6, traveling 48 orbits in 2 days and 22 hours
#astronautics
#OTD 14 June 1800 Battle of Marengo. Surprise Austrian attack pushes French back. Reinforcements let Bonaparte snatch victory from defeat.
#OTD 14.6.1848: Während der Deutschen Revolution kommt es zum Sturm auf das Berliner Zeughaus, wo sich die Menge mit Waffen versorgt
OTD 1796: HMS Dryad (36), Cptn. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, captured Proserpine (42).
German painter Ferdinand Knab was born #OTD 1834. The first painting is titled “The Castle Gate” (1881) #Art #ArtHistory
#HappyBirthday to the Center's founder, Paul Mellon (@Yale College, Class of 1929), who was born #otd in 1907. #Yale https://t.co/ddoph7yqGP
Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of the classic children's book Where the Wild Things Are #bornonthisday #otd
June 8, 1949: George Orwell's novel 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' was published. #OTD
#OTD 7.6.1905: In Dresden gründen Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff die Brücke https://t.co/RR7j5qPl91