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Cary Grant plays an angel in The Bishop's Wife,
from a screenplay by Robert E. Sherwood |
Here are today's milestones:
Born on this day:
Futabatei Shimei (1864; died May 10, 1909) Japanese author and critic;
Ukigumo (
Drifting Clouds)
Robert E. Sherwood (1896; died November 14, 1955) American playwright and screenwriter;
Waterloo Bridge;
Idiot's Delight;
Abe Lincoln in Illinois;
Rebecca;
There Shall Be No Night;
The Best Years of Our Lives;
The Bishop's Wife;
Pulitzer Prize for Drama (1936, 1939, 1941); Academy Award for Best Screenplay (1947); Pulitzer Prize for Biography (1948)
Marguerite Duras (1914; died March 3, 1996) French novelist, playwright, and essayist;
L'Amant (
The Lover); film
Hiroshima mon amour
Maya Angelou (1928; died May 28, 2014) American poet, memoirist, and activist;
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings;
On the Pulse of Morning
James Wilcox (1949) American novelist;
Modern Baptists
Died on this day:
Ambrose of Milan (397; born Unknown Date) Roman Bishop (of Milan) and Church Father; Biblical commentaries, hymns, and ethical works
Isidore of Seville (636; born Unknown Date, 560) Hispano-Roman Archbishop and the "last of the Church Fathers";
Etymologiae (
The Etymologies);
De fide catholica contra Iudaeos (
On the Catholic faith against the Jews);
Historia de regibus Gothorum, Vandalorum et Suevorum (
History of the Kings of the Goths, Vandals and Suevi)
Oliver Goldsmith (1774; born November 10, 1728) Irish novelist, playwright, and poet;
The Vicar of Wakefield;
She Stoops to Conquer;
The Deserted Village
Harris Newmark (1916; born July 5, 1834) Prussian-American businessman and historian;
Sixty Years in Southern California: 1853-1913
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1968; born January 15, 1929) American minister and activist;
Stride Toward Freedom;
Why We Can't Wait;
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.; "I Have a Dream" and "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (speeches); Nobel Peace Prize (1964)
Bonus Classic:
The Pali Canon (c. 29 CE) primary texts of Theravada Buddhism, comprised of the
Vinaya Pitaka, the
Sutta Pitaka, and the
Abhidhamma Pitaka
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