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Английский Хронограф 81


  

Английский Хронограф

Выпуск 81  28 декабря 2007г. описание форум архив e-mail

December 28

Biography of the Day

Woodrow Wilson.
Woodrow Wilson.
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Woodrow Wilson
The 28th U.S. president, Woodrow Wilson, born this day in 1856, was the creator and leading advocate of the League of Nations after World War I, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1919.


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 This Day in History

The western towers of Westminster Abbey, London, completed  1745 under the direction of Sir …
The western towers of Westminster Abbey, London, completed c. 1745
 
 
1065: Westminster Abbey opened
The original Westminster Abbey, located in London, was consecrated and opened this day in 1065 by Edward the Confessor and became the site of coronations and other ceremonies of national significance in England.
 
 
1934:
The Prophet, bronze statue by Pablo Gargallo, 1930; in the National …Spanish sculptor Pablo Gargallo, known for his figures sculpted from iron and other metals, died.
 
 
 
 
1923:
Gustave Eiffel, photograph by Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon); in the National Historical …Gustave Eiffel, designer of the famous Eiffel Tower, died in Paris.
 
 
 
1895: The first public demonstration of the Cinématographe, an early motion-picture apparatus designed by the Lumière brothers, took place at the Grand Café in Paris.
1888:

28.12.1888: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (†11.03.1931) The German fillm producer was actually called Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe. After graduating in dramatic arts, he founded the Murnau-Veidt Filmgesellschaft and shot his first film, "Der Knabe in Blau" (“The Blue Boy”). In 1922 he produced "Nosferatu", a film that became one of the most important silent film works. His films were primarily based on expressionist forms. In 1924 he achieved international success with the first UFA production “The Last Laugh”. In the following year he went to Hollywood and concluded a four year contract with producer W. Fox. He died from injuries sustained in a car accident in Santa Monica.

 

1734:
The outlaw Rob Roy, known as the Scottish Robin Hood, died.
 
1694:
Mary II, detail of an oil painting after Willem Wissing; in the National Portrait Gallery, LondonMary II, who became queen of England in 1689, died of smallpox in London at age 32.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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