September 2, 1910 — Henri Rousseau dies
A painter of the Post-Impressionist school, whose work was largely in the Naive or Primitivist manners, Henri Julien Félix Rousseau...
January 4, 2020
The Past
April 10, 1910 — Sam Schulman born
Born in New York City, most of Schulman’s life was lived on the opposite coast. His companies provided backing money...
January 7, 2020
June 20, 1909 — Errol Flynn is born
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn was born in Hobart, Tasmania. His parents were Theodore Thomson Flynn, a professor of biology at...
January 9, 2020
April 6, 1909 — Matthew Henson becomes the first explorer to reach the North Pole
The most trusted of Robert Peary’s fellow polar explorers, Henson was a member of Peary’s party when they became the...
January 10, 2020
October 18, 1908 — Belgium annexes the Congo
The so-called Congo Free State was a Belgian colony in Africa whose name provided the merest figleaf to the truth:...
January 14, 2020
June 30, 1908 — The Tunguska Event
There has never been anything quite like it. On June 30, 1908, something – we still don’t know what –...
January 19, 2020
May 30, 1906 — Michael Davitt dies
Michael Davitt was 60 years old when he died in Elphis Hospital, Dublin. In his six decades of life, he’d...
January 24, 2020
April 8, 1904 – Aleister Crowley begins writing “Liber Al vel Legis”
Crowley began writing the Liber Al vel Legis – literally, “The Book of the Law” in 1904 and wrote one...
February 2, 2020
March 1, 1904 — Glenn Miller born
Born in Clarinda, Iowa, Glenn Miller grew up wanting to be a musician. When he was 11, he finally saved...
February 7, 2020
October 22, 1903 — Curly Howard born
Jerome Lester Horwitz, better known to the world as Curly Howard, was born in Brooklyn, New York. His older brothers,...
February 8, 2020
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