Anniversaries

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: June 23, 1997 | Copyright information

Births: Giambattista Vico, philosopher and jurist, 1668; Anna Akhmatova (Anna Andreyevna Gorenko), poet, 1889; Edward, Duke of Windsor, 1894; Winifred Holtby, novelist, 1898. Deaths: Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope, traveller and eccentric, 1839; Cecil James Sharp, founder of the English Folk Society, 1924; Michael Arlen (Dikran Kouyoumdjian), novelist, 1956; Olivia Manning, novelist, 1980. On this day: Keble College, Oxford, opened, 1870; ...

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