Anniversaries

21st September 1866 (145 Years)

H. G. Wells, the "Father of Science Fiction", is born.

21st September 1937 (74 Years)

J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.

22nd September 1791 (220 Years)

Michael Faraday, English scientist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry, is born.

22nd September 1989 (22 Years)

Irving Berlin, the American songwriter and lyricist, died.

22nd September 1996 (15 Years)

Dorothy Lamour, American actress and singer, died.

23rd September 1889 (122 Years)

Wilkie Collins, the British author best known for 'The Woman in White', died.

23rd September 1938 (73 Years)

Romy Schneider, Austrian-French actress and singer, was born.

23rd September 1939 (72 Years)

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist who became known as the founding father of psychoanalysis, died.

23rd September 1968 (43 Years)

The Tet Offensive, one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, ended.

24th September 1717 (294 Years)

Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford, also known as Horace Walpole, English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig politician, was born.

24th September 1896 (115 Years)

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, American novelist whose works are the paradigmatic writings of the Jazz Age, was born.

24th September 1937 (74 Years)

Benito Mussolini gives a speech to a crowd of thousands at the Berlin Olympiastadion.

25th September 1513 (498 Years)

Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa and his team become first Europeans to see the Pacific Ocean.

25th September 1613 (398 Years)

Claude Perrault, French physician and architect, is born.

26th September 1791 (220 Years)

Théodore Géricault, French painter and lithographer, known for The Raft of the Medusa, is born in Rouen, France.

26th September 1874 (137 Years)

Lewis Wickes Hine, American photographer who used his camera as a tool for social reform, is born.

26th September 1888 (123 Years)

T. S. Eliot, poet, dramatist and critic, was born.

26th September 1914 (97 Years)

August Macke, German Expressionist Painter, died.

26th September 1934 (77 Years)

RMS Queen Mary was launched in Clydebank, Scotland.

27th September 1905 (106 Years)

Albert Einstein publishes a paper in which he explains the equivalence of matter and energy (E=mc2).

27th September 1917 (94 Years)

Edgar Degas, French painter, dies.

28th September 1865 (146 Years)

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Britain's first Woman doctor, gets a qualification.

28th September 1914 (97 Years)

Richard Sears, the co-founder of Sears Roebuck & Co, dies.

28th September 1966 (45 Years)

André Breton, French writer, poet and one of the founders of the Surrealist movement, dies.

28th September 1975 (36 Years)

The Spaghetti House siege, in which nine people are taken hostage, takes place in London.

28th September 1991 (20 Years)

Miles Davis, American trumpet player, composer and band leader, died.

29th September 1518 (493 Years)

Jacopo Tintoretto, Italian painter and a notable exponent of the Renaissance school, was born.

29th September 1888 (123 Years)

Edward Lear, poet and author, died.

29th September 1913 (98 Years)

Rudolf Diesel, German inventor of the diesel engine, dies.

29th September 1973 (38 Years)

Wystan Hugh Auden, English poet, who later became an American citizen, died.

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