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Biography of the Day

Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett).
Howlin' Wolf (Chester Burnett).
Howlin' Wolf
American blues singer and composer Howlin' Wolf, one of the principal exponents of the urban blues style of Chicago and noted for his brooding lyrics and his earthy, aggressive stage presence, was born this day in 1910.

This Day in History

Mary, Queen of Scots.
Mary, Queen of Scots.
1567: Casket Letters found
The Casket Letters  — which directly implicated Mary, Queen of Scots, in a plot with James Hepburn, 4th earl of Bothwell, to murder Mary's husband, Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley — were said to have been discovered this day in 1567.
 
1992:
 
 
1948:
 
 
 
A new constitution went into effect in Paraguay, signaling the end of military rule established in the 1950s by Alfredo Stroessner.
 
Currency reform in Germany.
1940:
A new government was announced in Latvia following the Soviet Red Army's invasion of the country.
 
1928:
American jazz musician Eric Dolphy was born in Los Angeles.
 
1905:
American playwright and screenwriter Lillian Hellman was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Lillian Hellman.
 
1887:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1837:
 
German Dada artist and poet Kurt Schwitters (†8.1.1948) was born in Hannover.
Schwitters founded his “Merz” artistic movement in 1919, which had its origins in Dadaism and the 1923 magazine “Merz”. Schwitters applied his collage technique to the visual arts, using clippings and rubbish. He adopted a similar method in his poems, which consisted of word fragments. In 1937 he fled to Norway and later to England.
18-year old Victoria’s coronation was the beginning of a glorious 64-year reign, during which Britain became an economic superpower with colonies all over the world. Victoria had nine children with Prince Albert, her husband and political advisor. Following his death, she withdrew from the political stage almost completely.
 
1789:
Locked out of their meeting hall at Versailles, the deputies of the Third Estate in France congregated on a nearby tennis court and took an oath not to separate until a written constitution had been established — the Tennis Court Oath.
The gardens at the Palace of Versailles, France, designed by André Le Nôtre.
 
 
 


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