Anniversaries

14th December 1995 (15 Years)

The Dayton Agreement ends the Bosnian war.

15th December 1939 (71 Years)

"Gone with the Wind" Premières in Atlanta, Georgia.

15th December 1966 (44 Years)

Walt Disney, American animator, director, screenwriter, producer and actor, co-founded The Walt Disney Company, dies.

16th December 1775 (235 Years)

English novelist Jane Austen is born.

16th December 1866 (144 Years)

Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-French painter and art theorist, credited with painting the first purely abstract works, is born.

16th December 1899 (111 Years)

Sir Noel Coward, British playwright, composer, actor and director, was born.

16th December 1944 (66 Years)

The Battle of the Bulge during the Second World War.

17th December 1717 (293 Years)

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English suffragette and the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon, died.

17th December 1904 (106 Years)

Paul Cadmus, American painter and photographer, was born.

18th December 1863 (147 Years)

Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, is born.

18th December 1869 (141 Years)

Edward Redfield, oil painter of landscapes and buildings was born

18th December 1879 (131 Years)

Paul Klee, Swiss-German artist whose style was influenced by movements that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism, was born.

18th December 1913 (97 Years)

Willy Brandt, German Chancellor, is born.

18th December 1916 (94 Years)

Betty Grable, American musical film actress and pin-up girl from the 1930's and 40's, is born.

19th December 1848 (162 Years)

Emily Brontë, English author and poet, died.

19th December 1915 (95 Years)

Édith Piaf, French singer and icon also known as “The Little Sparrow,” is born.

19th December 1996 (14 Years)

Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni, Knight Grand Cross, Italian film actor, died in Paris.

20th December 1968 (42 Years)

John Steinbeck, American author, Nobel Prize laureate, died.

21st December 1118 (892 Years)

Thomas Becket, English archbishop and saint, was born.

22nd December 1867 (143 Years)

Théodore Rousseau, French painter, dies.

22nd December 1960 (50 Years)

Jean-Michel Basquiat, American artist and one of the most significant painters of the 20th century, was born.

23rd December 1888 (122 Years)

Vincent van Gogh cuts off his left ear.

23rd December 1916 (94 Years)

Beginning of the Battle of Magdhaba (known as the Affair of Magdhaba) during the Defence of Egypt section of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in WWI.

23rd December 1918 (92 Years)

Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt, statesman who served as Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1974 to 1982, was born.

23rd December 1929 (81 Years)

Chet Baker, American Jazz musician and vocalist, was born.

23rd December 1989 (21 Years)

Nancy Graves, conceptual sculpture based artist, was born.

24th December 1863 (147 Years)

William Makepeace Thackeray, writer, died.

Christmas Day Truce, where on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day during World War I, many soldiers from both sides independently ventured into "no man's land", where they mingled, exchanging food and cigarettes.

24th December 1914 (96 Years)

John Muir, the American naturalist and preservationist, dies.

24th December 1922 (88 Years)

Ava Lavinia Gardner, American actress and singer, was born.

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