Anniversaries 2008 January 01.01.1808 01.01.1928 06.01.1838 07.01.1938 Importation of slaves into the Samuel Morse's telegraph system is Loie Fuller (1862-1928), American Roland Topor (1938-1997), French United States is banned (200th demonstrated for the first time (170th dancer (80th Death Anniversary) illustrator (70th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary) 08.01.1948 09.01.1878 12.01.1848 12.01.1908 Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), The Sicilian revolution of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (1820- Jean Delannoy , screenwriter and film German painter (60th Death independence commences (160th 1878) (130th Death Anniversary) director (100th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary) 13.01.1898 14.01.1898 15.01.1998 16.01.1948 Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), English John Carpenter , American film Emile Zola's J'Accuse exposes the Junior Wells (1934-1998), American writer and mathematician (110th Death director, screenwriter and producer Dreyfus affair (110th Anniversary) musician (10th Death Anniversary) Anniversary) (60th Birth Anniversary) 18.01.1778 21.01.1938 23.01.1928 24.01.1848 Horace Wells (1815-1848), American James Cook discovers of the Jeanne Moreau , French actress, film Georges Méliès (1861-1938), French dentist who pioneered the use of Hawaiian Islands (230th director and screenwriter (80th Birth filmmaker (70th Death Anniversary) anaesthesia in dentistry (160th Anniversary) Anniversary) Death Anniversary) 24.01.1888 25.01.1308 25.01.1708 25.01.1858 Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" Jacob L. Wortman patents the Edward II (1307-1327) marries Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787), Italian 1st played, at wedding of Queen typewriter ribbon (220th Isabella of France (700th painter (300th Birth Anniversary) Victoria's daughter Princess Victoria Anniversary) Anniversary) (150th Anniversary) 26.01.1928 28.01.1938 30.01.1948 Roger Vadim (1928-2000), French Bernd Rosemeyer (1909-1938), Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is murdered by Nathuram actor, film director and screenwriter German racing driver (70th Death Godse (60th Death Anniversary) (80th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) February 01.02.1788 03.02.1898 04.02.1498 Pollaiolo (1433-1498), Italian painter, Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patent the steamboat (220th Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), Finnish sculptor, engraver and goldsmith Anniversary) architect (110th Birth Anniversary) (510th Death Anniversary) 04.02.1938 05.02.1578 05.02.1878 06.02.1918 Adolf Hitler creates the Giambattista Moroni (1525-1578), André Citroën (1878-1935), French Gustav Klimt (1862-1918), Austrian Oberkommando der Italian painter (430th Death automobile pioneer (130th Birth painter (90th Death Anniversary) Wehrmacht (70th Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary) 07.02.1478 11.02.1868 13.02.1958 16.02.1918 Thomas Moore (1478-1535), Jean Bernard Léon Foucault (1819- Achille Castiglioni (1918-2002), Georges Rouault (1871-1958), French English statesman, humanist and 1868), French physicist (140th Death Italian architect and designer (90th painter (50th Death Anniversary) author (530th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) Birth Anniversary) 18.02.1808 18.02.1898 19.02.1878 22.02.1908 Giuseppe Piermarini (1734- Enzo Ferrari (1898-1988), Italian The phonograph is patented by John Mills (1908-2005), English actor 1808), Italian architect (200th Death race car driver and automobile Thomas Edison (130th Anniversary) (100th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) manufacturer (110th Birth Anniversary) 23.02.1818 23.02.1878 23.02.1918 24.02.1958 Antonio Fontanesi (1818-1882), Kazimir Severinovič Malevič First combat action of the Red Army Radio Rebelde , Castro’s rebels radio, italian painter (190th Birth (1878-1935), Russian painter (130th against the occupying Imperial German begins broadcasting from Sierra Anniversary) Birth Anniversary) Army (90th Anniversary) Maestra (50th Anniversary) 26.02.1808 29.02.1908 Honoré Daumier (1808-1879), French painter, illustrator and sculptor Balthus (1908-2001), French painter (200th Birth Anniversary) (100th Birth Anniversary) March March 1508-1512 Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling on a commission by Pope Julius II (500th Anniversary) 01.03.1848 01.03.1958 05.03.1908 07.03.1878 Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848- Rex Harrison (1908-1990), English Boris Kustodiev (1878-1927), Giacomo Balla (1871-1958), Italian 1907), Irish-born American sculptor theatre and film actor (100th Birth Russian painter (130th Birth painter (50th Death Anniversary) (160th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary) 07-09.03.1848 12.03.1728 12.03.1938 13.03.1898 Anton Raphael Mengs (1728-1779), Anschluss : German troops occupy Henry Hathaway (1898-1985), Revolution in Berlin (160th German painter (280th Birth Austria; annexation declared the American film director and producer Anniversary) Anniversary) following day (70th Anniversary) (110th Birth Anniversary) 13.03.1988 14.03.1948 16.03.1898 17.03.1848 Steno (1915-1988) Italian film Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), Revolution in Venice and Billy Crystal , American actor and film director and screenwriter (20th English illustrator and author (11oth proclamation of San Marco Republic director (60th Birth Anniversary) Death Anniversary) Death Anniversary) (160th Anniversary) 17.03.1938 18-22.03.1848 19.03.1888 23.03.1898 Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993), “Five Days” of Milan , Austrian Titina De Filippo (1898-1963), Josef Albers (1888-1976), German Russian-born ballet dancers (7oth forces are expelled from the city (160th Italian theatre actress and paintress painter (120th Birth Anniversary) Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) (110th Birth Anniversary) 23.03.1908 25.03.1908 26.03.1808 27.03.1998 Joan Crawford (1908–1977), David Lean (1908-1991), English film Charles IV of Spain abdicates in Ferdinand A. E. Porsche (1909- Academy Award-winning American director, screenwriter and actor (100th favour of his son, Ferdinand VII (200th 1998), Austrian technical automobile actress (100th Birth Anniversary) Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) designer (10th Death Anniversary) April 01.04.1918 03.04.1958 04.04.1758 Castro's revolutionary army begins its Pierre Paul Prud'hon (1758-1823), The Royal Flying Corps is replaced by Royal Air Force (90th Anniversary) attacks on Havana (50th French painter (250th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) 04.04.1968 05.04.1908 05.04.1908 06.04.1528 Martin Luther King is Herbert von Karajan (1908-1989), Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528), German Bette Davis (1908-1989), American assassinated at a motel in Memphis Austrian conductor (100th Birth painter and mathematician (480th actress (100th Birth Anniversary) (40th Anniversary) Anniversary) Death Anniversary) 07.04.1928 07.04.1938 07.04.1968 Suzanne Valadon (1867-1938), Jim Clark dies in a crash during a Alan J. Pakula (1928-1998), American film producer and director (80th French paintress (70th Death minor Formula 2 race (40th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary) 14.04.1868 15.04.1808 15.04.1938 16.04.1828 Peter Behrens (1868-1940), Francisco Goya y Lucientes (1746- Hubert Robert (1733-1808), French Claudia Cardinale , Tunisian-born German architect and designer 1828), Aragonese Spanish painter and painter (200th Death Anniversary) Italian actress (70th Birth Anniversary) (140th Birth Anniversary) printmaker (180th Death Anniversary) 17.04.1918 19.04.1588 19.04.1768 William Holden (1918-1981), Paolo Veronese (1528-1588), Italian Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768), better known as Canaletto , Venetian artist American actor (90th Birth painter of the Renaissance in Venice (240th Death Anniversary) Anniversary) (420th Death Anniversary) 20.04.1808 26.04.1798 28.04.1928 Napoleon III (1808-1873), Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863), Yves Klein (1928-1962), French Emperor of the French (200th Birth French Romantic painters (210th Birth abstract artist (80th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary) May 01.05.1908 2-3.05.1808 03.05.1898 Giovannino Guareschi (1908- Golda Meir (1898-1978), Prime Peninsular War : the people of Madrid uprise against the French troops; the 1968), Italian writer (100th Birth Minister of Israel (110th Birth rebels are executed near Príncipe Pío hill the following day (200th Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary) 04.05.1858 05.05.1818 06.05.1758 06.05.1868 Aimé Bonpland (1773-1858), Karl Marx (1818-1883), German Maximilien Robespierre (1758- Nicholas II (1868-1918), last Tsar of French explorer and botanist (150th philosopher, political economist and 1794), French revolutionary (250th Russia (140th Birth Anniversary) Death Anniversary) revolutionary (190th Birth Anniversary) Birth Anniversary) 07.05.558 08.05.1828 10.05.1908 12.05.1828 Jean Henri Dunant (1828-1910), Swiss Mother's Day is observed for the first In Constantinople, the dome of the Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), businessman and social activist, time in Andrew's Methodist Church in Hagia Sophia collapses (1450th English poet, illustrator and painter. Founder of the Red Cross (180th Birth Grafton, West Virginia, USA (100th Anniversary) (180th Birth Anniversary) Anniversary) Anniversary) 14.05.1948 16.05.1898 19.05.1898 Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980), William Ewart Gladstone (1809- Israel declares its independence (60th Anniversary) Polish Art Deco painter (110th Birth 1989), British statesman and Prime Anniversary) Minister (110th Death Anniversary) 19.05.1928 20.05.1908 Colin Chapman (1928-1982), English automotive engineer, founder of Lotus James Stewart (1908-1997), American actor (100th Birth Anniversary) Cars (80th Birth Anniversary) 27.05.1988 28.05.1908 28.05.1968 30.05.1778 Ian Fleming (1908-1964),