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Michael Manocchio as Witwoud and Miles Boucher as Fainall in
William Congreve's The Way of the World produced by The
Hilberry Company at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
William Congreve (1670; died January 19, 1729) English playwright and poet;
Love for Love;
The Way of the World
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776; died June 25, 1822) Prussian author;
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King;
Die Elixiere des Teufels (
The Devil's Elixirs); "Der Sandmann" ("The Sandman")
Edith Wharton (1862; died August 11, 1937) American novelist and short story writer;
The House of Mirth;
Ethan Frome;
The Age of Innocence; Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1920)
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900; died December 18, 1975) Russian-American evolutionary biologist who contributed to the "modern synthesis" of Darwin's theory with Gregor Mendel's ideas on heredity; wrote
Genetics and the Origin of Species; article "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense except in the Light of Evolution"
Henri Nouwen (1932; died September 21, 1996) Dutch Catholic priest and theologian whose works include
The Return of the Prodigal Son;
The Wounded Healer;
In the Name of Jesus
Died on this day:
Winston Churchill (1965; born November 30, 1874) British statesman, historian, writer, and orator;
The Second World War;
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
George Cukor (1983; born July 7, 1899) American filmmaker;
The Philadelphia Story;
Gaslight;
Adam's Rib;
A Star Is Born;
My Fair Lady (for which he won an Oscar)
Bonus Classic:
Yunus Emre (1238-1320) Turkish poet and Sufi mystic; mystical poetry
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