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28th October 2011
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Events
1538 – The first New World university is
established as the Universidad Santo Tomás de
Aquino (Santo Domingo).
1628 – The Siege of La Rochelle, ends, after over
a year, with the surrender of the Huguenots many
of whom flee to England.
1636 – The University College which, later,
becomes Harvard University is established..
1886 – In New York Harbour, President Grover
Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty
rededicated by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936 and
the centenary celebrated in 1986.
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The copper skin was,
originally, held to an
armature of puddled iron
bars (specified by Eiffel) and
were isolated by asbestos
and shellac to prevent
galvanic decomposition.
Recently the iron was
replaced by stainless steel
and the retaining staples are
now made of the alloy
Ferralium. The stature is de
to be closed again shortly for
modification to permit better
access for wheelchair and
“baby buggies”/Chariots.]
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Events
1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act
over President Woodrow Wilson's veto…
Prohibition begins the following January (1920).
1929 – Black Monday, the day in the Wall Street
Crash of 1929 when stock values fall most (13%).
Not until November 1954 does the market return
to the pre-crash high of September 1929!
1961 – At Checkpoint Charlie – a crossing place in
the newly erected Berlin Wall 10 US (M48) & 10
Soviet (T55) Tanks “square-up” 100M apart, for
16 hours until Nikita Khrushchev withdraws one
then John F. Kennedy pulls one and so on and so
on!
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Events
1962 –Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev
announces that he had ordered the removal of
Soviet missile bases in Cuba. The Cuban Missile
Crisis had passed.
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Ins…
1903 – Evelyn Waugh, writer (d. 1966)
1909 – Francis Bacon, a painter (born Dublin)
whose imagery typically suggests anger, horror,
and degradation, often of ((?)catholic) “religious”
subjects and thus often reviled. Tempestuous
relationships with his lovers (male) also did not
endear him to some! (d. 1992)
1914 – Richard Laurence Millington Synge,
research biochemist and Nobel laureate. (d. 1994)
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Ins…
1927 – Cleo Laine, Jazz singer and widow of
(Sir) Johnny Dankworth (1927 -2010)
1936 – Carl Davis, American-born British
conductor and composer
1941 – Hank Marvin, Newcastle born guitarist.
1955 –William Henry "Bill" Gates III Bill Gates,
co-founder (with Paul Allen) of Microsoft
magnate, investor, philanthropist, author, etc.
“If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's
not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you
decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?”
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with Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
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Outs…
1989 – Henry Hall, British bandleader
(especially for the BBC), Salvation and British
Army member and sometime incharge of all
music for LMS Railway (who owned and operated
many hotels) (b. 1898)
1998 – Ted Hughes, British poet, children's
writer (eg “The Iron Man”) and Poet Laureate
from 1984 until death. He was married to
American poet Sylvia Plath (1930-1963) from
1956 until her suicide.
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Seeing Da Vinci’s
enigmatic Mona Lisa in
the Louvre! Created
c1503/5, the original is
778mm x 530mm
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An Irish road sign on
the R700 – near
Inistioge (Co Kilkenny)
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