Happy birthday and many happy returns Silvia Din. Born on the same day, across the years, along with 1443 – Albert III, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500) 1720 – Samuel Foote, English playwright (d. 1777) 1741 – Hester Thrale, Welsh author (d. 1821) 1756 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer (d. 1791) 1775 – Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, German philosopher (d. 1854) 1795 – Eli Whitney Blake, American inventor, invented the Mortise lock (d. 1886) 1807 – David Strauss, German theologian and author (d. 1874) 1823 – Édouard Lalo, French composer (d. 1892) 1832 – Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898) 1908 – William Randolph Hearst, Jr., American journalist and publisher (d. 1993) 1908 – Hot Lips Page, American trumpet player, singer, and bandleader (d. 1954) 1944 – Nick Mason, English drummer, songwriter, and producer (Pink Floyd) 1957 – Frank Miller, American illustrator, screenwriter, producer, and director 1964 – Bridget Fonda, American actress 1997 – Peyton Ernst, American artistic gymnast January 27: International Holocaust Remembrance Day; Holocaust Memorial Day in the United Kingdom and various commemorations of the liberation of Auschwitz(1945) Entrance to Auschwitz 447 – An earthquake destroyed large sections of the Walls of Constantinople. 1142 – Despite having saved the Southern Song dynasty from attempts by the northern Jin dynasty to conquer it, Chinese general Yue Fei was executed by the Song government. 1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Toba–Fushimi, where pro-Imperial forces defeated those of the Tokugawa shogunate and which was a catalyst for the Meiji Restoration, began in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto. 1945 – The Soviet Red Army liberated over 7,500 prisoners left behind by Nazi personnel in the Auschwitz concentration camp (entrance pictured) in Oświęcim, Poland. 1980 – With the assistance of Canadian government officials, six American diplomats who had avoided capture in the Iran hostage crisis escaped to Zurich, Switzerland. The earth moved. Executed for a song. We are restored. We are liberated. We escaped. Lets party.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 11:19:08 +0000
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