Anniversaries

The Independent - London | October 31, 1996 | Copyright

Anniversaries

Births: John Evelyn, diarist and founder of the Royal Society, 1620; Jan Vermeer (Johannes Van der Meer), painter, 1632; Meyndert Hobbema, painter, 1638; John Keats, poet, 1795; Benoit Fourneyron, engineer and inventor of the water turbine, 1802; Philo Remington, typewriter and small- arms manufacturer, 1816; Sir Joseph Wilson Swan, chemist and inventor of the electric lamp, 1828; Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese leader, 1887; Sir George Hubert Wilkins, polar explorer and aviator, 1888. Deaths: Fra Bartolommeo de Pagholo (Della Porta), painter, 1517; Dan Leno (George Galvin), comedian, ...

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