Happy birthday and many happy returns to those born on this day, across the years, including 1396 – William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English admiral (d. 1450) 1758 – Noah Webster, American lexicographer and author (d. 1843) 1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish author, poet, and playwright (d. 1900) 1884 – Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (d. 1916) 1886 – David Ben-Gurion, Israeli politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1973) 1888 – Eugene ONeill, American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953) 1890 – Michael Collins, Irish politician (d. 1922) 1922 – Max Bygraves, English actor and singer (d. 2012) 1925 – Angela Lansbury, English-American actress and singer 1927 – Günter Grass, German author, poet, and illustrator, Nobel Prize laureate 1958 – Tim Robbins, American actor, director, and screenwriter 2003 – Princess Kritika of Nepal October 16: World Food Day Walt Disney 456 – Magister militia Ricimer defeated Emperor Avitus at Piacenza and became master of the Western Roman Empire. 1834 – Most of the Palace of Westminster in London was destroyed in a fire. 1923 – Roy and Walt Disney (pictured) founded the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio in Hollywood that eventually grew to become one of the largest media and entertainment corporations in the world. 1934 – Surrounded by Kuomintang troops, Zhou Enlai, Bo Gu, and Otto Braun led 130,000 Red Army soldiers and civilians on a Long March from Jiangxi. 1984 – The Bill debuted on ITV, eventually becoming the longest-running police procedural in British television history. Avitus is wasted and you are master. Fire has cleansed. You provide amusement. A walk of a thousand miles begins with a single hoy. You have passed the Bill. Now, party.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:12:57 +0000
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