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Yosemite's Bridalveil Fall and El Capitan around 1880,
about a dozen years after John Muir's first visit
to The Yosemite. Photo by Carleton E. Watkins. |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Matthew Arnold (1822; died April 15, 1888) English poet and critic; "Dover Beach"; "The Scholar-Gipsy"; "Thyrsis";
Culture and Anarchy;
Literature and Dogma
Michael Curtiz (1886; died April 10, 1962) Hungarian-American filmmaker;
Casablanca (Best Director Oscar);
Angels with Dirty Faces;
Yankee Doodle Dandy;
Mildred Pierce;
White Christmas
Fritz Leiber (1910; died September 5, 1992) American fantasy and science fiction writer, most famous for stories starring his characters Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser
Died on this day:
William Makepeace Thackeray (1863; born July 18, 1811) English novelist;
Catherine;
The Luck of Barry Lyndon;
Vanity Fair;
Pendennis;
The Newcomes;
The History of Henry Esmond
Clarence King (1901; born January 6, 1842) American geologist and author;
Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada
John Muir (1914; born April 21, 1838) Scottish-American naturalist and writer;
The Mountains of California;
Our National Parks;
My First Summer in the Sierra;
The Yosemite
Harold Pinter (2008; born October 10, 1930) English playwright who wrote
The Birthday Party;
The Homecoming;
Betrayal; Nobel Prize in Literature (2005)
Bonus Classic:
The Poetic Edda (12th century?) collection of poetry in Old Norse (sometimes attributed to Saemundr the Learned) including Norse mythology and tales of human heroes
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