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
(I'm cherry-picking Wikipedia mainly.)Looking at events and birthdays of people in history that pertain to art, music, literature, film, poetry, psychology, "magic", creative technologies, space travel, philosophies, "illumination", cosmic consciousness. With as little focus on war as possible. There will be exceptions owing to my own personal interest in a specific topic. Feel free to leave comments or suggestions. This is a work in progress.
Thursday, January 17, 2019
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January 19
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