TODAY IN HISTORY – Blast from past TDK Link!

Tagged: #Artist Purrdays, #BelaLugosi, #FBI JLo, #FritzScholder, #Holocaust, #JohnSloan, #LIVE AID CONCERT, #Macarena, #Monkey Trial, #Nixon Impeach, #Nutmeg bday, #Oscar Gowns, #PickleDay, #PPRArtist #14thAmendment, #PresidentsDay, #Princess Charlotte, #PT109sinks, #Purrday Anniversaries, #Purrday artists, #Ranger Moon shots, #Redon, #Renoir, #Rosetta Stone #Hollywood 10, #Sarsandstripes, #Testtubebaby, #USConstitution #D-Day #BIGBEN#OK, #USinSpace, #Vandongen/SFCatArtMuseum, #VE day, #Warsaw uprising, #Wonner art#HulaHoop#Fat Elvis, #WWulz, 15th Amendment, 9-11, Annie Hall vs Star Wars, Aretha, art history, Ask Mr History, ASPCA, Bach, bastille day, Bastille Days, Beatles NY, Betsy Ross, Bletchley, Cat Woman, CN Wildfires, David Bowie, Dr ML King, Dr. Seuss, Dr.MLK, Eiffel Tower, Gloria, Golden Gate Bridge, Goya #Barbiedoll#Hillary, grumpy cat, halloween, hummus, I like cheese, Liz, music, NixonImeach, PI Day, Purrday Artists CMSF, purrdays, Ringo, Roller Coaster, RR, Sandy Dennis, SF Earthquake, Star Wars, Steinberg, unicorns, Warsaw Uprising 45 turn table, ZFfolliesAlamo, Zorach

This topic has 414 replies, 2 voices, and was last updated 4 years, 2 months ago by Jeankit.

Viewing 20 posts - 141 through 160 (of 415 total)

← 1 2 3 … 7 8 9 … 19 20 21 →

Author

Posts
8 June, 2016 at 9:03 pm #848400

Jeankit
Participant

Happy Purrday to Photographer:
Born today in 1879 photographer Harry Whittier Frees.

🙂

13 June, 2016 at 6:52 pm #848580

Jeankit
Participant

06-12-16:
Happy Purrday Artist Today:
Happy Birthday painter Gerard Schlosser. Schlosser is eighty-five today.

14 June, 2016 at 5:18 pm #848618

Jeankit
Participant

This Day in History: It’s Flag Day!

1777
Congress adopts the Stars and Stripes
On June 14, 1877, the first Flag Day observance was held on the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes.
More History Hi-lights:
Tragedy
1985 TWA flight 847 is hijacked by terrorists
Disaster
1903 Flash flood devastates Oregon town
General Interest
1951 UNIVAC computer dedicated
1982 Falkland Islands War ends
Hollywood
2003 Queen Elizabeth makes Helen Mirren a Dame
Literary
1811 Harriet Beecher Stowe is born
Music
1909 Folk singer Burl Ives is born

15 June, 2016 at 7:42 pm #848667

Jeankit
Participant

Purrday Artist:
Born today in 1904 photographer Margaret Bourke-White.

Below: Ansel Adams photograph of Bourke-White with her cat (1964).

16 June, 2016 at 7:31 pm #848705

Jeankit
Participant

Belated Purrday Artist:
06-15:
Born today in 1914 cartoonist and illustrator Saul Steinberg.

14 July, 2016 at 3:20 pm #849650

Jeankit
Participant

Today in History 07-14:
1789
French revolutionaries storm Bastille

The capture of the Bastille symbolized the end of the ancien regime and provided the French revolutionary cause with an irresistible momentum. Joined by four-fifths of the French army, the revolutionaries seized control of Paris and then the French countryside, forcing King Louis XVI to accept a constitutional government. In 1792, the monarchy was abolished and Louis and his wife Marie-Antoinette were sent to the guillotine for treason in 1793.
By order of the new revolutionary government, the Bastille was torn down. On February 6, 1790, the last stone of the hated prison-fortress was presented to the National Assembly. Today, July 14–Bastille Day–is celebrated as a national holiday in France.

There are celebrations all over to commemorate this historical occurrence!
Happening in Brewtown too: 35th Anniversary of Bastille Days
http://easttown.com/events/bastille-days/bastille-days-entertainment

The Bastille Days Festival will light up the Cathedral Square neighborhood Thursday through Sunday.

15 July, 2016 at 9:09 pm #849692

Jeankit
Participant

Purrrday Artists:
Gustav Klimt
07-14:

Rembramdt van Rijn
07-15:

18 July, 2016 at 7:38 pm #849808

Jeankit
Participant

Belated Happy Purrday to:
July 16 at 1:56pm ·
Born today in 1904 artist and curator Rowland Lyon.
Below: A pair of prints by Lyon, “Smokey” and “That Cat”.

21 July, 2016 at 7:05 pm #849881

Jeankit
Participant

Happy Purrday Artist:
Born today in 1883 painter Otto Möller.

Below: Möller painting “Weiß Rot Schwarz Katz (White-Red-Black Cat)” 1930.

🙂

22 July, 2016 at 7:49 pm #849920

Jeankit
Participant

Happy Purrday to:
Ernest Hemingway!

Enjoy 🙂

28 July, 2016 at 9:13 pm #850110

Jeankit
Participant

Today we are celebrating a Purrday:

Beatrix Potter!

29 July, 2016 at 2:38 am #850124

Moonshadow_NZ
Moderator

I loved the Beatrix Potter books as a child. I have a collection of them all here – just waiting to be read to grandchildren. Waiting on the grandchildren too.
Happy Beatrix Potter birthday.

2 August, 2016 at 8:36 pm #850296

Jeankit
Participant

Happy Purrday Artist Today:

Born today in 1871 painter John French Sloan.
Belated Purrday Wishes:

Born 08-01 in 1883 artist Benedict Fred (B.F.) Dolbin.

Enjoy 🙂

4 August, 2016 at 7:59 pm #850372

Jeankit
Participant

ThrowBackThurs:
Happy Purrday to

Born today in 1904 actress Dolores del Rio.

4 August, 2016 at 9:37 pm #850374

katzenjammer
Participant

Dolores and KJ rock similar eye makeup – but not the same Basement Cat! 😉

5 August, 2016 at 7:27 pm #850400

Jeankit
Participant

Belated Happy Purrday to US President Obama:
Below: Come this January both President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron will both be out of office but Larry (the cat) will likely continue in his position as Britain’s first mouser at 10 Downing Street.

UK Kit Larry sends headbonks & purrs 😉

6 August, 2016 at 3:18 am #850416

CatWScotia
Participant

Larry stays because he doesn’t belong to the Camerons, but to a member of staff. So his position is much safer!

😆

6 August, 2016 at 6:37 pm #850434

lagatta
Participant

True. I don’t know whether or not PM May likes cats, but suspect she prefers them to a rodent infestation.

10 August, 2016 at 6:57 pm #850593

Jeankit
Participant

Happy Purrday too:
Born today in 1845 artist Xavier Mellery.

Belated Purrday wishes for:
Born in 1869 painter and printmaker Louis Valtat.

Below: Valtat painting, “Self-Portrait with Cat” 1899.

Hope you enjoyed both!

11 August, 2016 at 8:50 pm #850633

Jeankit
Participant

Happy Purrday to:
Born today in 1897 author Enid Blyton.
Author

Posts