According to Wikipedia, the following events took place today (aka my birthday):
1889 - The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated.
1918 - Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
1930 - The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next thirty eight years.
1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he will not run for re-election.
1970 - Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere (after 12 years in orbit).
1985 - The first Wrestlemania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE, takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York.
1998 - Netscape releases the code base of its browser under an open-source license agreement; the project is given the code name Mozilla and would eventually be spun off into the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.
2008 - Aloha Airlines, a bankrupt airline, permanently ends passenger service
Sharing my birthday today are...
1596 - René Descartes, French mathematician (d. 1650)
1675 - Pope Benedict XIV (d. 1758)
1878 - Jack Johnson, American boxer (d. 1946)
1885 - Pascin, Bulgarian painter (d. 1930)
1948 - Al Gore, former Vice President of the United States and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1965 - Steven T. Seagle, American comic-book writer
3 comments:
Jon,
This artist was unfamiliar to me so I looked up some information:
Jules Pascin, born Julius Mordechai Pincas, is a Bulgarian Jewish painter sometimes referred to as "the Prince of Montparnasse." He was born on March 31, 1885 in Vidin, Bulgaria to a Spanish-Sephardic Jewish father and a Serbian-Italian mother, the eighth of eleven children. The Pincas family moved to Bucharest, Romania in 1892 and Pascin was raised there until he left for boarding school in Vienna in 1896.
This account goes on to say that he moved to Paris, to London, and to New York and that he traveled in the southern states. I saw an image of one of his watercolors whose scene was New Orleans.
Robert
Zeek,
Everything OK, bro? Haven't heard from you in quite awhile. Post something for us, even if it's just an "I'm alive" message.
RL
Yes indeed,
Let us know that you are still doing -- or not doing -- something.
I thought of you a few minutes ago when I wrote a note to Aaron Fowler whom I had never heard of until I saw Jason's note on a new photograph of him.
Robert
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