Anniversaries

27th January 1593 (429 Years)

The Vatican opens the seven-year trial of scholar Giordano Bruno.

27th January 1814 (208 Years)

Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, the French Gothic revival architect who designed the steel frame of the Statue of Liberty, is born.

27th January 1921 (101 Years)

Donna Reed, American film and television actress and producer, was born.

27th January 1945 (77 Years)

Liberation of the German concentration camp Auschwitz.

27th January 1986 (36 Years)

Lilli Palmer, born Lilli Marie Peiser, German actress, died.

28th January 0814 (1208 Years)

Charlemagne, also known as Charles I. or Charles the Great, king of the Franks, dies.

28th January 1807 (215 Years)

Pall Mall in London becomes the first street to be lighted by gas lamps.

28th January 1813 (209 Years)

Pride and Prejudice is published in the UK.

28th January 1887 (135 Years)

Construction of the Eiffel Tower begins.

28th January 1929 (93 Years)

Claes Oldenburg, American Pop Artist, was born.

28th January 1939 (83 Years)

William Butler Yeats, Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, died.

28th January 1958 (64 Years)

The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.

29th January 1393 (629 Years)

Bal des Ardents (the "Ball of the Burning Men"): Charles VI of France almost died when costumes caught fire at a masquerade ball. 625 years.

29th January 1843 (179 Years)

William McKinley, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 25th President of the United States, was born.

29th January 1888 (134 Years)

Edward Lear, poet and author, died.

29th January 1936 (86 Years)

Patrick Caulfield, English painter and printmaker, known for his bold paintings, is born.

30th January 1948 (74 Years)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the pre-eminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India was assassinated in New Delhi.

30th January 1968 (54 Years)

The Tet Offensive, one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War, launched.

30th January 1969 (53 Years)

The Beatles’ last public performance.

31st January 1977 (45 Years)

The Georges Pompidou National Center for Art and Culture in Paris, called “Beaubourg” opens. 40 years

1st February 1887 (135 Years)

Hollywood, California becomes a registered town.

1st February 1918 (104 Years)

Russia adopts the Gregorian calendar.

1st February 1944 (78 Years)

Piet Mondrian, the Dutch pioneer of abstract art and important contributor to the De Stijl art movement, died.

1st February 1966 (56 Years)

Buster Keaton, American actor, best known for his silent films, dies.

1st February 1967 (55 Years)

Vietnam War: Operation "Big Spring” begins.

1st February 1976 (46 Years)

Hans Richter, a German painter, graphic artist, avant-gardist, film-experimenter and producer, died in Minusio, near Locarno, Switzerland.

1st February 2013 (9 Years)

The Shard, the tallest building in the European Union, is opened to the public.

2nd February 1868 (154 Years)

Pro-Imperial forces captured Osaka Castle from the Tokugawa shogunate and burned it to the ground.

2nd February 1882 (140 Years)

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, Irish novelist and poet, was born.

2nd February 1913 (109 Years)

New York City's Grand Central Terminal opened.

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