Anniversaries

26th September 1888 (128 Years)

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

26th September 1914 (102 Years)

August Macke, German Expressionist Painter, died.

26th September 1934 (82 Years)

RMS Queen Mary was launched in Clydebank, Scotland.

27th September 1905 (111 Years)

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

27th September 1917 (99 Years)

Edgar Degas, French painter, dies.

28th September 1865 (151 Years)

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

28th September 1914 (102 Years)

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

28th September 1966 (50 Years)

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

28th September 1975 (41 Years)

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

28th September 1991 (25 Years)

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

29th September 1518 (498 Years)

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

29th September 1888 (128 Years)

Edward Lear, poet and author, died.

29th September 1913 (103 Years)

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

29th September 1973 (43 Years)

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

29th September 1997 (19 Years)

Roy Fox Lichtenstein, American pop artist, died.

30th September 1791 (225 Years)

The first performance of The Magic Flute, the last opera by Mozart to make its début, took place at Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria.

30th September 1888 (128 Years)

Elizabeth "Long Liz" Stride body was found in the Whitechapel area. She was the 3rd canonical victim of Jack the Ripper.

30th September 1888 (128 Years)

Catherine Eddowes's body, the 2nd person killed in the early hours of Sunday 30 September by Jack the Ripper, was found.

30th September 1924 (92 Years)

Truman Capote, American bestselling author, most famous for Breakfast at Tiffany's, was born.

30th September 1955 (61 Years)

The American actor James Dean dies in car crash.

1st October 1890 (126 Years)

Yosemite becomes a national park

1st October 1908 (108 Years)

The Ford Model T, the first car for millions of Americans, hits the market. Over 15 million Model Ts are eventually sold, all of them in black.

1st October 1918 (98 Years)

World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") captures Damascus.

1st October 1928 (88 Years)

The Soviet Union introduces its First five-year plan.

1st October 1958 (58 Years)

President Dwight D. Eisenhower established the National Aeronautics and Space Administration: NASA.

1st October 1977 (39 Years)

Pelé closed out his career in an exhibition match between the Cosmos and Santos.

1st October 1988 (28 Years)

Mikhail Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Union.

2nd October 1718 (298 Years)

Elizabeth Montagu, British social reformer, literary critic, and writer who helped organize and lead the Blue Stockings Society, was born.

2nd October 1869 (147 Years)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement again British rule, was born.

2nd October 1890 (126 Years)

Julius Henry Marx, known as Groucho Marx, American comedian, film and television star, was born.

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