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Poster for "The Greatest Show on Earth,"
a circus founded in part by P.T. Barnum |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
P. T. Barnum (1810; died April 7, 1891) American showman;
Life of P.T. Barnum;
The Humbugs of the World;
Struggles and Triumphs;
The Art of Money-Getting
Harris Newmark (1834; died April 4, 1916) Prussian-American businessman and historian;
Sixty Years in Southern California: 1853-1913
Jean Cocteau (1899; died October 11, 1963) French writer, playwright, artist and filmmaker; novel
Les Enfants Terribles; play
The Infernal Machine; films
Beauty and the Beast and
Orpheus
Died on this day:
Jonas Lie (1908; born November 6, 1833) Norwegian novelist, poet, and playwright who wrote
The Family at Gilje and
One of Life’s Slaves; with
Ibsen,
Bjørnson, and
Kielland, one of Norway's "Four Greats."
Georges Bernanos (1948; born February 20, 1888) French author;
Diary of a Country Priest
Howard Nemerov (1991; born February 29, 1920) American poet;
The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov; twice Poet Laureate of the USA (1963-1964 and 1988-1990); Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1978)
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