SESAME STREET debuted #OTD in 1969.
It changed the face of children's television — and transformed the way a generation looked at race and the world beyond our doorstep.
#SesameStreet #SesameStreetDay
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#OTD in 1911.
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre by museum employee Vincenzo Peruggia and was not recovered until two years later.
The theft and subsequent recovery in 1913 led to the publication of many cultural depictions such as the 1915 opera Mona Lisa, two early 1930s films (The Theft of the Mona Lisa and Arsène Lupin) and the song "Mona Lisa" recorded by Nat King Cole—one of the most successful songs of the 1950s.
![The Mona Lisa's vacant place in the Salon Carré, Louvre Museum, after having been stolen in 1911. Above the vacant wall space is Veronese's The Feast at the House of Simon (now in the Museum of Château de Versailles), on one side, Titian's Allegory painted for Alfonso d'Avalos, and on the other Correggio's 'Betrothal of St. Catharine [Catherine] of Alexandria'.](/proxy/post_attachment/328184/3b27349bb4.jpg "The Mona Lisa's vacant place in the Salon Carré, Louvre Museum, after having been stolen in 1911. Above the vacant wall space is Veronese's The Feast at the House of Simon (now in the Museum of Château de Versailles), on one side, Titian's Allegory painted for Alfonso d'Avalos, and on the other Correggio's 'Betrothal of St. Catharine [Catherine] of Alexandria'.")
#OTD in 1920.
The Salzburg Festival in Austria is inaugurated with a performance of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's play Jedermann (Everyman, 1911) in front of Salzburg Cathedral, directed by Max Reinhardt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedermann_(play)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salzburg_Festival
Jedermann: Das Spiel vom Sterben des reichen Mannes by Hugo von Hofmannsthal at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28949
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Norwegian author Amalie Skram was born #OTD in 1846.
She gave voice to a woman's point of view with her naturalist writing. Skram's most famous works include the novels "Constance Ring", "Lucie", and the four-volume series "Hellemyrsfolket", which provides a stark and realistic depiction of life in 19th-century Norway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalie_Skram
Books about Amalie Skram at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68655
#OTD in 1850 writer Robert Louis Stevenson was born.
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Art of Living (and Dying)
"Trenton B. Olsen Explores How the Author Navigated a Lifetime of Chronic Illness"
https://lithub.com/robert-louis-stevensons-art-of-living-and-dying/
Stevenson at PG:
"On a memorable morning of early December London opened its eyes on a frigid gray mist..."
#OTD in 1891.
Israel Zangwill's The Big Bow Mystery, the first classic full-length locked room mystery, begins serialization in The Star (London), before being published as a novel the following year.
It has been almost continuously in print since 1891 and has been used as the basis for three movies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bow_Mystery
The Big Bow Mystery at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28164
#OTD in 1839.
John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph. The word is based on the Greek φῶς (phos), meaning "light," & γραφή (graphê), meaning "drawing, writing," together meaning "drawing with light."
Herschel's research into making photographic images (anthotype process) from flowers was limited & was ultimately abandoned since no commercial application was feasible from a process which takes days to produce an image.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photograph
#OTD in 1892.
Amalthea becomes the last moon to be discovered without the use of photography. It was discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard and named it after Amalthea, fost-mother of Zeus.
Barnard used the 91 cm refractor telescope at Lick Observatory and was the first new satellite of Jupiter since Galileo Galilei's discovery of the Galilean satellites in 1610.
#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1865, Dr Mary Edwards Walker receives the Medal of Honor from US President Andrew Johnson for her services as a field surgeon in the American Civil War.
A lifelong "dress reformer", she wore trousers under short dresses and eventually switched to trousers and jackets. She was frequently arrested for her choice. "I don't wear men's clothes, I wear my own clothes," she said.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInWar #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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Belgian lawyer and bibliographer Paul Otlet was born #OTD in 1868.
He developed the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) system, an innovative and highly detailed method for cataloging information. Otlet envisioned a global network of information that could be accessed remotely, which he described in his writings as a "réseau" or network of knowledge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Otlet
Books by Paul Otlet at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/50172
#OnThisDay, 11 Nov 1906, British composer Ethel Smyth's opera 'The Wreckers' opens in Leipzig. Appalled by cuts made by the production, she removes all copies of the score from the orchestra pit to prevent further performances.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #VotesForWomen #BritishHistory #MusicHistory #Histodons
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"We who go out to die shall be remembered, because we gave the world peace. That will be our reward, though we will know nothing of it, but lie rotting in the earth - dead."
~Philips Gibbs. In : The Pageant of the Years
#OTD in 1918 - Armistice Day
The Soul of a Nation by Philip Gibbs is available at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41308
Italian physician, physicist, biologist Luigi Galvani was born #OTD in 1737.
In 1780, Galvani discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitched when struck by an electrical spark. Galvani's report of his investigations were mentioned specifically by Mary Shelley as part of the summer reading list leading up to an ad hoc ghost story contest on a rainy day in Switzerland—and the resultant novel Frankenstein—and its reanimated construct.
Hamish Henderson (1919–2002) – poet, soldier, intellectual, activist, songwriter – was born #OTD, 11 Nov. A hugely important figure in Scottish culture, Henderson fought in North Africa & Italy in WW2. A 🎂🧵
There were no gods and precious few heroes…
—“Elegies for the Dead in Cyrenaica”
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#Scottish #literature #HamishHenderson #20thcentury #culture #poetry #poem #warpoetry #WW2 #RemembranceDay
#OnThisDay, 13 Nov 1931, Democrat Hattie Wyatt Caraway is appointed as a US Senator for Arkansas.
The first woman to sit in the Senate for more than a day, she'd been selected by the party on the understanding that she would serve out her late husband's term and not stand for re-election in 1932.
Instead she stood again, and remained a Senator until 1945.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
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#OTD in 1928.
The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper), adapted by Bertolt Brecht, Elisabeth Hauptmann and composer Kurt Weill from The Beggar's Opera, is launched at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin, with Harald Paulsen and Lotte Lenya in the principal rôles.
By 1933, when Weill & Brecht were forced to leave Germany by the Nazi seizure of power, the play had been translated into 18 languages and performed more than 10,000 times on European stages.
#OTD in 1870.
Libraries of the University of Strasbourg and the City of Strasbourg at Temple Neuf are destroyed by fire during the Siege of Strasbourg in the Franco-Prussian War, resulting in the loss of 3,446 medieval manuscripts, including the original 12th-century Hortus deliciarum compiled by Herrad of Landsberg, the Apologist codex containing the only text of the early Epistle to Diognetus, and rare Renaissance books.
Italian painter Lavinia Fontana was born #OTD in 1552.
She is best known for her successful portraiture, but also worked in the genres of mythology and religious painting. She is regarded as the first female career artist in Western Europe, as she relied on commissions for her income. Over 100 works by Fontana are documented, but only 32 signed and dated works are known today.
#OTD in 79 A.D. Eruption of Mount Vesivius.
For more than five centuries, until approximately 2018, articles about the eruption of Vesuvius typically stated that the eruption began on August 24, 79 AD. This date came from a 1508 printed copy of a letter addressed by Pliny the Younger to the Roman historian Tacitus, originally written some 25 years after the event. Pliny was a witness to the eruption and provided the only known eyewitness account.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eruption_of_Mount_Vesuvius_in_79_AD
American author, illustrator, and educator Anna Botsford Comstock died #OTD in 1930.
The first female professor at Cornell University, her over 900-page work, The Handbook of Nature Study (1911), is now in its 24th edition. Comstock was an American artist and wood engraver known for illustrating entomological text books with her husband, John Henry Comstock including their first joint effort, The Manual for the Study of Insects (1885).
#OTD in 1881.
Robert Louis Stevenson's children's pirate adventure novel Treasure Island begins serialization in the British magazine Young Folks as Treasure Island; or, The mutiny of the Hispaniola by "Captain George North". It was first published as a book on 14 November 1883 by Cassell & Co.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Island
Treasure Island at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/120
Norman MacCaig (1910–1996) was born #OTD, 14 November. A self-described “Zen Calvinist”, when asked how long it took him to write a poem he would reply “one cigarette – or two for a long one”
A 🎂🧵
“Toad”
published in THE POEMS OF NORMAN MacCAIG (Birlinn, 2009)
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https://birlinn.co.uk/product/the-poems-of-norman-maccaig/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #20thcentury #NormanMacCaig
#OnThisDay, 24 Aug 1896, an unknown woman cyclist has a beer at the bar in New Jersey - making headlines in the New York Times.
Chapeau!
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Cycling #AmericanHistory #Histodons
Danish noblewoman & horticulturalist Sophia Brahe was born #OTD in 1559 (or 22 September 1556).
She played an essential role in assisting her brother, Tycho Brahe, with his astronomical observations. She worked alongside him at the Uraniborg observatory on the island of Hven, where they made some of the most precise measurements of planetary positions before the invention of the telescope. was deeply interested in horticulture, alchemy, & medicine.
#OTD in 1889.
Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde are entertained together at dinner at the Langham Hotel, London, by the American Joseph Marshall Stoddart of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, who commissions from them respectively the stories The Sign of the Four and The Picture of Dorian Gray, which appear next year in the magazine.
The Sign of the Four at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2097
The Picture of Dorian Gray at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/4078
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/174
