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.
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.
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.