May 13, 1916 — Sholem Aleichem dies
Best known for his tales of Teyve the Dairyman, Sholem Aleichem was a Jewish writer born in Russia in 1859....
November 4, 2019
Art & Culture
July 8, 1916 — Eppie Lederer and Pauline Phillips born
Better known respectively by their noms du plume, Ann Landers and Dear Abby, Esther Pauline Friedman and Pauline Esther Friedman...
October 24, 2019
April 1, 1919 — Walter Gropius founds the Bauhaus School
The Bauhaus school was founded in Weimar, Germany (the town, not the government) by Walter Gropius, an architect. Ironically, as...
September 19, 2019
January 19, 1920 — Construction of the permanent Cenotaph in London begins
Edwin Lutyens was one of the greatest British architects, possibly the greatest of his era. His design for the Cenotaph...
September 4, 2019
November 26, 1922 — Carter and Carnavon find King Tut’s tomb
If not the greatest archaeological find of the Twentieth Century, certainly the best known. King Tut – well, Tutankhamen really...
August 14, 2019
December 28, 1922 — Stan Lee born
Born Stanley Lieber in Manhattan to Romanian parents, it was under a pen name that he would become known as...
August 12, 2019
February 16, 1923 — The inner chamber of King Tut’s tomb is unsealed
Tutankhamen, or King Tut, was one of the most mysterious of the Egyptian pharaohs, largely because his successors had tried...
August 9, 2019
January 26, 1925 — Paul Newman born
One of the greatest actors of the Twentieth Century, Paul Newman starred in – among others – “The Hustler”. “The...
August 4, 2019
May 21, 1927 — Charles Lindbergh completes the first solo non-stop trans-Atlantic flight
In the 1920’s, aviators were heroes. They were bold explorers and experimenters, pushing back the boundaries of the known. And...
July 14, 2019
November 29, 1927 — Alexander Alekhine becomes World Chess Champion
Alekhine had been a grandmaster since 1914 or thereabouts (the title is not a formal one), and he was on...
July 7, 2019
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