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Screenshot (from a Youtube video) of Maria Callas
as the title character in a 1964 Paris
production of Georges Bizet's opera Carmen |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Allen Ginsberg (1926; died April 5, 1997) American poet; best-known for "Howl"
Died on this day:
William Harvey (1657; born April 1, 1578) English physician;
De Motu Cordis (
On the Circulation of Blood)
Georges Bizet (1875; born October 25, 1838) French composer;
Carmen;
Pearl Fishers
Johann Strauss the Younger (1899; born October 25, 1825) Austrian composer;
Gypsy Baron;
Die Fledermaus; waltzes: "Blue Danube"; "Tales from the Vienna Woods"
Franz Kafka (1924; born July 3, 1883) German-speaking Austro-Hungarian novelist and short story writer;
Der Process (
The Trial);
Das Schloss (
The Castle); "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis"); Ein Hungerkünstler (A Hunger Artist)
Frank Waters (1995; born July 25, 1902) American writer; novels:
The Man Who Killed the Deer;
The Yogi of Cockroach Court;
The Woman at Otowi Crossing; also,
Book of The Hopi;
Pumpkin Seed Point
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