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Births: Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor and goldsmith, 1500; Pietro da Cortona, painter and architect, 1596; Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, poet and satirist, 1636; Antonio Canova, sculptor, 1757; Gustav IV, King of Sweden, 1778; Jules Bastien-Lepage, painter, 1848; Madame Albani (Marie Louise Cecile Emma Lajeunesse), soprano, 1852; Stephen Townley Crane, author, 1871; Laurence Stephen Lowry, primitive painter, 1887; Edmund Charles Blunden, scholar and poet, 1896. Deaths: Giulio Romano (Giulio Pippi), painter, 1546; Salomon van Ruysdael, painter, buried 1670; Charles II (``The Bewitched''), King of Spain, 1700; John Radcliffe, physician and founder of the Radcliffe Library, Oxford, 1714; Alexander Cruden, compiler of the Bible Concordance, 1770; Salomon van Ruysdael, painter, buried 1670; John Lindley, botanist and writer, 1865; Alexander III, Tsar of Russia, 1894; Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen, historian and archaeologist, 1903; Alfred Jarry, poet, novelist and playwright, 1907; Ezra Loomis Pound, poet, 1972; King Wallis Vidor, film director, 1982; Phil Silvers, comedian and actor, 1985. On this day: the Bank of Scotland was founded, 1695; 60,000 people died when Lisbon was destroyed by an earthquake, 1755; San Francisco bay was discovered by Gaspar de Portola, 1769; the Congress of Vienna opened, 1814; the first W.H. Smith bookstall opened at Euston Station, London, 1848; Lloyd's Register of Shipping was first published, 1884; the first issue of Woman's Weekly was published, 1911; licences for radio sets were started in Britain, 1922; a republic was declared in Turkey by Kemal Pasha, 1922; the British Television service was inaugurated, 1936; Puerto Rican nationalists attempted to assassinate President Truman, 1950; the first London production of the musical show South Pacific was staged, 1951; the first Premium Bonds went on sale, 1956; the first section of the M1 motorway was opened, 1959. Today is the Feast Day of All Saints, St Austremonius or Stremoine, St Benignus of Dijon, St Cadfan, Saints Caesarius and Julian, St Marcellus of Paris, St Mary, martyr, St Mathurin or Maturinus and St Vigor.
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