"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
"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
Italian violinist and composer Niccolò Paganini was born #OTD in 1782.
He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique.
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Paganini&submit_search=Go%21
#OnThisDay, 27 Oct 1967, the Abortion Act gains royal assent. It allows women in the UK – except for Northern Ireland - to legally have an abortion on a range of medical grounds but stops short of making abortion legal.
It came into effect in April 1968 everywhere except Northern Ireland: NI passed their own act in 2020.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons
German scholar Johann Albert Fabricius was born #OTD in 1668.
He produced several significant bibliographies, such as Bibliotheca Graeca, Bibliotheca Latina, Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica, and Bibliotheca Latina mediae et infimae aetatis.
#OnThisDay, 28 Oct 1908, Muriel Matters, Violet Tillard and Helen Fox unfurl a banner and then chain themselves to the grille in the Ladies Gallery in the House of Commons, London, demanding votes for women.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #BritishHistory #Histodons
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#art #history:
‘kiss me & you will see how important i am.’
i'm wishing a sketchy birthday to la plath, born #otd in 1932 - &, even though i've not a chance in high hades of achieving a scintilla of the written eloquence that she displayed, here's my scribbled ode. [cheeky wee thread follows]
#sylviaPlath #illustration #poet #literature #poetry
Italian physicist and academic, first woman to have doctorate in science Laura Bassi was born #OTD in 1711. Bassi became the most important populariser of Newtonian mechanics in Italy.
#OTD in 1675.
Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus. He adapted the integral symbol, ∫, from the letter ſ (long s), standing for summa (written as ſumma; Latin for "sum" or "total").
"[...] people always live for ever when there is any annuity to be paid them."
#OTD in 1811.
Jane Austen publishes her first novel: Sense and Sensibility at her own expense in 3 volumes, priced at 15 s., in Thomas Egerton's Military Library.
#OTD in 1938.
Orson Welles broadcasts a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing a massive panic in some of the audience in the United States.
The War of the Worlds at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/36
"If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter."
Margaret Mead died #OTD in 1978.
#OTD in 1612 (and 27 January 1613). Galileo Galilei became the first person to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
Because Neptune was only beginning its yearly retrograde cycle in Dec. 1612, the motion of the planet was far too slight to be detected with Galileo's small telescope.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune
Neptune at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/34991
#OTD in 1850.
Charles Dickens's novel David Copperfield concludes serial publication and on November 14 appears complete in book form from Bradbury and Evans in London.
#OTD in 1895
Thomas Hardy's last completed novel, Jude the Obscure is published by Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co. in London, dated 1896, on completion of an expurgated serialization under the title Hearts Insurgent in Harper's Magazine.
#OTD in 1902
Leo Tolstoy's drama The Power of Darkness (written in 1886) has its Russian-language première at the Moscow Art Theatre by Konstantin Stanislavski with some success, although Stanislavski is self-critical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Darkness
The Power of Darkness at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26661
