Anniversaries

From: The Independent - London | Date: July 20, 1996 | Copyright information

Anniversaries

TODAY: Births: Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), scholar, lyric poet and humanist, 1304; Sir John Charles Walsham Reith, first Baron Reith, first director-general of the BBC, 1889. Deaths: Sir Richard Wallace, founder of the Wallace Collection, 1890; Andrew Lang, author and fairy tale editor, 1912; Guglielmo Marconi, inventor, 1937. On this day: Euston Station opened, 1837; the XIth Olympic Games opened in Berlin, 1936; at a meeting in Rastenburg, Germany, Colonel von Stauff...

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