Gazette: Anniversaries
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Your support makes all the difference.Births: Philip I, King of Spain, 1478; Anthony Ashley Cooper, first Earl of Shaftesbury, statesman, 1621; Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, astronomer and mathematician, 1784; Gregor Johann Mendel, Augustinian monk and botanist, 1822; Louis-Gabriel Eugene Isabey, painter and lithographer, 1803; Sir Herbert Stanley Oakeley, composer and organist, 1830; The Rev William Archibald Spooner, originator of "spoonerisms", 1844; William Poel (Pole), actor-manager, 1852; Gus Elen (Ernest Augustus Elen), music-hall artiste, 1862; Selman Abraham Waksman, biochemist, 1888; James Whale, film director, 1896; Stephen Vincent Benet, poet and novelist, 1898.
Deaths: Simon Langham, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1376; Charles VII of France, 1461; Henry III of France, assassinated 1589; John Dalton, poet, 1763; Marie Francois-Xavier Bichat, anatomist, 1802; Emmanuel-Henri Louis- Alexandre de Launay, Comte d'Antraigues, publicist, and his wife, an opera singer, murdered by a servant, 1812; George Shaw, naturalist, 1813; Christopher Wilhelm Eckersberg, painter, 1853; Wilson Barrett (William Henry), actor and playwright, 1904; James Whitcombe Riley, poet, 1916; John Meade Falkner, novelist, 1932; Florenz Ziegfeld, theatrical producer, 1932; John Dillinger, "Public Enemy No 1", shot dead in an ambush, 1934; William Lyon Mackenzie King, statesman, 1950; Carl Sandburg, poet, 1967; Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler, archaeologist, 1976; Harold Larwood, cricketer, 1995.
On this day: the French defeated the English at the Battle of Saintes, 1242; the English defeated the Scots, led by Wallace, at the Battle of Falkirk, 1298; Belgrade was besieged by the Ottoman Turks, 1456; the English fleet drove off the French at the Battle of Cape Finisterre, 1805; in Spain, the Duke of Wellington defeated the French in the Battle of Salamanca, 1812; the Mormons, moving westwards, reached the site of Salt Lake City, 1847; Federal troops stopped the Confederates at the Battle of Atlanta, 1864; Wiley Post completed the first round-the-world solo air flight in 7 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes, 1933; the Bretton Woods Conference on international monetary policy ended, 1944; in Britain, bread rationing started, 1946; after six years in exile, King Leopold III returned to Belgium, 1950; the Russian unmanned spacecraft Venera 8 made a soft landing on Venus, 1972; Greece and Turkey agreed to a cease-fire in Cyprus, 1974.
Today is the Feast Day of St John Lloyd, St Joseph of Palestine, St Mary Magdalen, St Philip Evans, St Vandrille or Wandregesilus.
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