Today in history: What a day for history, fascinating! 1566 – Died: Nostradamus, French astrologer and writer 1582 – Died: Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai 1591 – Died: Vincenzo Galilei, Italian composer 1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with Great Britain; the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is approved on July 4, 1776. 1778 – Died: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer 1877 – Born: Hermann Hesse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate 1893 – Born: Ralph Hancock, Welsh gardener and author 1919 – Born: Jean Craighead George, American author 1920 – Born: John Kneubuhl, American Samoan screenwriter, playwright and historian 1923 – Born: Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer 1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight. 1960 – Born: Terry Rossio, American screenwriter and producer 1961 – Died: Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate 1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places. 1977 – Died: Vladimir Nabokov, Russian writer 1999 – Died: Mario Puzo, American writer 2004 – Died: Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, Portuguese poet and writer 2005 – Died: Ernest Lehman, American screenwriter, director, and producer
Posted on: Wed, 03 Jul 2013 02:09:00 +0000
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