Thursday, January 17, 2019

January 14

On This Day in...
1911 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.

1967 – The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park.

1973 – Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.

Happy Birthday to...
Luca Longhi

Gottfried Silbermann
(See also: https://www.baroquemusic.org/silbeng.html )

Jean-Baptiste van Loo

Henri Fantin-Latour

Cecil Beaton

Murray Bookchin
“We must consciously create our own world, not according to mindless customs and destructive prejudices, but according to the canons of reason, reflection, and discourse that uniquely belong to our own species.”

Johnny Grande


Allen Toussaint
Lamar Williams


Slick Rick



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