Anniversaries

10th December 1936 (75 Years)

Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signed the Instrument of Abdication.

10th December 1967 (44 Years)

Otis Ray Redding, American singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout, died.

11th December 1890 (121 Years)

Mark Tobey, American abstract painter, was born.

11th December 1917 (94 Years)

WWI: General Edmund Allenby enters the Old City after British victory in the Battle of Jerusalem.

11th December 1918 (93 Years)

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and Nobel Prize winner, critic of the communism, the Soviet Union and the Gulag camp system, was born.

12th December 1791 (220 Years)

Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, second wife of Napoleon I and mother of his only heir, was born.

12th December 1863 (148 Years)

Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter and print maker, was born.

12th December 1915 (96 Years)

Frank Sinatra, American singer and actor, is born.

12th December 1928 (83 Years)

Helen Frankenthaler, American painter and academic, was born.

13th December 1466 (545 Years)

Donatello, Italian painter and sculptor, died.

13th December 1716 (295 Years)

Charles de La Fosse, French painter, one of the most noted pupils of Le Brun, dies.

13th December 1915 (96 Years)

Curd Jürgens, German-Austrian stage and film actor, is born.

13th December 1944 (67 Years)

Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian-born French artist known for his purely abstract work, died.

13th December 1944 (67 Years)

Wassily Kandinsky, the Russian-born French artist known for his purely abstract work, died.

14th December 1788 (223 Years)

Charles III, King of Spain and the Spanish Indies from 1759 to 1788, was born.

14th December 1866 (145 Years)

Roger Fry, English artist and art critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group is born.

14th December 1914 (97 Years)

The Battle of the Falkland Islands, a British naval victory over the Imperial German Navy, World War I.

14th December 1959 (52 Years)

Sir Stanley Spencer CBE RA, one of Britain's most renowned 20th century painters, died.

14th December 1993 (18 Years)

Myrna Loy, American actress and singer, died.

14th December 1995 (16 Years)

The Dayton Agreement ends the Bosnian war.

15th December 1939 (72 Years)

"Gone with the Wind" Premières in Atlanta, Georgia.

15th December 1966 (45 Years)

Walt Disney, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and actor, co-founded The Walt Disney Company, dies.

16th December 1775 (236 Years)

English novelist Jane Austen is born.

16th December 1866 (145 Years)

Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and art theorist, credited with painting the first purely abstract works, is born.

16th December 1899 (112 Years)

Sir Noel Coward, British playwright, composer, actor and director, was born.

16th December 1944 (67 Years)

The Battle of the Bulge during the Second World War.

17th December 1717 (294 Years)

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English suffragette and the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon, died.

17th December 1904 (107 Years)

Paul Cadmus, American painter and photographer, was born.

18th December 1863 (148 Years)

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, is born.

18th December 1869 (142 Years)

Edward Redfield, oil painter of landscapes and buildings was born.

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