Lise Meitner died #OTD in 1968.
She is known for her part in the discovery of nuclear fission. Among physicists she had been known for many years as one of the early pioneers in the study of radioactivity. Einstein nicknamed her ‘the German Madame Curie’.
"The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."
#OTD in 1847.
Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is published (as "an autobiography, edited by Currer Bell") in London by Smith, Elder & Co. in 3 volumes.
The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre
Jane Eyre at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1260
#OTD in 1917.
The 51-year-old poet W. B. Yeats marries 25-year-old Georgie Hyde-Lees at Harrow Road register office in London, with Ezra Pound as best man, a couple of months after Yeats' proposal of marriage to his ex-mistress's daughter, Iseult Gonne, is rejected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats#Marriage_to_Georgie_Hyde-Lees
Books by W. B. Yeats at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1719
Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frédéric Chopin died #OTD in 1849.
To this day, Chopin's music remains one of the most widely performed, and an indispensable part of the universal piano repertoire. Along with Franz Liszt, he is the father of modern piano technique and influenced a whole line of modern composers, including Claude Debussy, Alexandre Scriabine, Maurice Ravel and Sergei Rachmaninov.
Books by or about Frédéric Chopin at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric+Chopin&submit_search=Go%21
"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own."
Irish writer Jonathan Swift died #OTD in 1745.
Swift is remembered for works such as A Tale of a Tub, An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, Gulliver's Travels, & A Modest Proposal. He originally published all of his works under pseudonyms—including Lemuel Gulliver, Isaac Bickerstaff, M. B. Drapier—or anonymously.
Books by Jonathan Swift at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/326
Argentinian poet and author Alfonsina Storni died #OTD in 1938.
Her first book, La inquietud del rosal, brought her recognition from the literary circles in Buenos Aires; but it was her volume El dulce daño that won her popular success.
Dutch author and poet Isabelle de Charrière, known as Belle van Zuylen, was born #OTD in 1740.
She is now best known for her letters and novels, although she also wrote pamphlets, music and plays. She took a keen interest in the society and politics of her age, and her work around the time of the French Revolution is regarded as being of particular interest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_de_Charri%C3%A8re
Books by Isabelle de Charrière at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Isabelle+de+Charri%C3%A8re&submit_search=Go%21
French pianist and composer Georges Bizet was born #OTD in 1838.
Best known for his operas in a career cut short by his early death, Carmen, become one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertoire.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was born #OTD in 1910. He established an upper limit on the mass of stable white dwarf stars, and made numerous contributions to astrophysics and relativity.
Above the Chandrasekhar Limit – about 1.44 solar masses – electron degeneracy pressure cannot prevent a stellar remnant’s gravitational collapse into a neutron star or black hole.
Photo: Stephen Lewellyn / AIP
#OTD in 360.
Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the Sun and writes a commentary on The Great Astronomer (Almagest).
In his commentary on the Almagest he calculates "the place and time of conjunction which gave rise to the eclipse in Tybi in 1068 after Nabonassar". This works out as 18 October 320, and so Pappus must have been active around 320.
American archaeologist and anthropologist Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall was born #OTD in 1857.
She discovered two forgotten manuscripts of pre-Columbian manuscripts in private collections, one of them being the Codex Zouche-Nuttall. She decoded the Aztec calendar stone and was one of the first to identify and recognise artefacts dating back to the pre-Aztec period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelia_Nuttall
Books by Zelia Nuttal at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/35649
German novelist and translator Dorothea von Schlegel was born #OTD in 1764.
She met the poet & critic Friedrich von Schlegel in the salon of her friend Henriette Herz in 1797, after which Dorothea divorced Simon Veit in 1799.
"Art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe. "
The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews (1928)
~Rebecca West, born #OTD in 1892.
About Rebecca West:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_West
Swiss illustrator Eugène Grasset died #OTD in 1917.
Grasset was an engraver, poster artist, decorator and architect, representative of the Art Nouveau movement. He exercised his talent in all areas of the decorative arts: architecture, decoration, illustration, graphics, furniture, jewelry, stained glass...
"Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin."
Opening lines.
#OTD in 1925.
Winnie-the-Pooh first appeared by name in a children's story in the London Evening News for Christmas Eve.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winnie-the-Pooh
Winnie-the-Pooh at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67098
Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist Ernst Öpik was born #OTD in 1893.
He is best known for his pioneering work on the structure and dynamics of the Solar System, particularly his studies on the Oort Cloud, the origin of comets, and stellar evolution. Öpik's work laid the foundation for many modern astronomical theories and influenced later research on the distribution of comets and small celestial bodies in the outer reaches of the Solar System.
"Sleep does make us all equal, it seems to me, like his big brother--Death."
Plays and Stories
Austrian author and dramatist Arthur Schnitzler died #OTD in 1931.
He is considered one of the most significant representatives of Viennese Modernism. Schnitzler’s works, which include psychological dramas and narratives, making him a sharp and stylistically conscious chronicler of Viennese society around 1900.
Books by Arthur Schnitzler at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/3010
“Had she been a man she would have become Prime Minister.“
#OnThisDay, 21 Oct 1958, Stella Isaacs (Baroness Swanborough) becomes the first woman to take a seat in the UK House of Lords.
She campaigned tirelessly for the rights of refugee children.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #histodons
Love is like an itchin' in my heart...
#OnThisDay, 22 Oct 1966, The Supremes become the first all-woman group to get to no 1 in the US Billboard album charts with The Supremes A' Go-Go.
Listen to their version of Get Ready: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD_7_MhgHhc
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #AmericanHistory #PopHistory #Histodons
#OTD in 1836.
Honoré de Balzac's novel La Vieille Fille begins a 12-day serialization in the newly established Paris newspaper La Presse, as the first novel serialized in the French press.
This book was republished in 1839 by éditions Charpentier, before being published alongside le Cabinet des Antiques in the isolated les Rivalités group within Scènes de la vie de province in la Comédie humaine, published in 1844 by édition Furne.
La Vieille Fille at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52831
#OTD in 1879.
Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (lasting 13,5 hours before burning out).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incandescent_light_bulb
U.S. patent 0,223,898 by Thomas Edison for an improved electric lamp, 27 January 1880:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US223898
Edison: His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/820
#OTD in 1849.
American writer Edgar Allan Poe died under mysterious circumstances at Washington Medical College four days after being found on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland, in a delirious and incoherent state.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Edgar_Allan_Poe
Books by Edgar Allan Poe at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/481
"Tupi or not tupi - That is the question."
Manifesto Antropófago, 1928.
Brazilian poet, novelist and cultural critic Oswald de Andrade died #OTD in 1954.
Andrade was one of the founders of Brazilian modernism and a member of the Group of Five, along with Mário de Andrade, Anita Malfatti, Tarsila do Amaral and Menotti del Picchia. He participated in the Modern Art Week (Semana de Arte Moderna).
American astronomer Henrietta Hill Swope was born #OTD in 1902.
Working with H. Shapley, she helped establish the famous period-luminosity relation for Cepheid variable stars, thereby permitting determination of the Sun's position in our galaxy and of distances to other galaxies. In 1962, using plates taken with the 200" Hale reflector by W. Baade, she determined the distance to the Andromeda galaxy to be 2.2 million light years.
#OTD in 1893.
Jerome K. Jerome founds To-Day, "A weekly magazine-journal", in London. However, he had to withdraw from both publications (The Idler) because of financial difficulties and a libel suit.
Books by Jerome K. Jerome at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/173
![Isabelle de Charrière by Jens Juel, (1777), Bibliothèque publique et universitaire de Neuchâtel.
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