January 10th - 19th
10th January
Events
1920 – The Treaty
of Versailles signed 29th June 1919 takes effect, officially ending
the First World War
Births
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| Ann Shoemaker |
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| Barbara Hepworth c.1966 |
1903 – Barbara Hepworth – English sculptor
1945 – Rod Stewart
– British singer-songwriter
Deaths
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| Mary Russell Mitford Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1824 |
1851, Mitford moved to a cottage in Swallowfield. December 1854, Mitford was injured in a carriage accident and died the January 1855. Mitford buried at All Saints' parish church
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| William Frederick Cody "Buffalo Bill" |
Buffalo Bill
born William Frederick Cody, born 1846, son of Isaac Cody and Mary Ann Bonsell
Laycock. Cody started work aged 11 after
the death of his father. Cody became a
rider for the Pony Express. During the
America Civil War, he served with Union.
Later Cody, served with US Army as a civilian scout during the Indian Wars,
for which Cody was awarded the Medal of Honor, 1872.
1869, Ned
Buntline published a story-based Cody’s adventure
in the Street and Smith’s New York Weekly.
He further by publishing a successful novel, “Buffalo Bill, King of
the Borderman” more novels followed
this one. Cody became world-famous for Buffalo
Bill’s Wild West, a touring show touring around the United States, Great Britain
and Continental Europe.
The day
before his death, Cody was baptized in the Catholic Church by Father Christopher
Walsh of the Denver Cathedral. Cody was
buried on Lookout Mountain, Golden, Colorado. West of Denver on the edge of the
Rocky Mountains.
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| David Bowie, in Tinley Park, Illinois during the Heathen Tour, 2012 |
Aged 15,
Bowie formed his first band, the Konrads during 1962. During the 1960’s, dissatisfied with his
stage name Davy Jones, and the invitation with the confusion of Davie Jones of The
Monkeys, Bowie changed his name after the 19th century American
pioneer, James Bowie. May 1967, Bowie
released his first album “David Bowie”.
During his
career, Bowie the leading figure in the music industry and he was regarded as one
of the most influential musicians of the 20th century.
Two days
after his 69th birthday, and Bowie released his final album “Blackstar”,
Bowie died in his New York City apartment, from liver cancer.
11th January
Events
1879 – The Anglo-Zulu
War begins. The war was fought between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. The war lasted from January to the July 1879. The result was a British victory, ending the Zulu nation's dominance of the region.
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| The Defence of Rorke's Drift, 1879 by Alphonse de Neuville, 1880 |
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| Amelia Earhart, beneath the nose of her Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, March 1937, Oakland, California |
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| Flag of Bangladesh |
Births
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| Harry Gordon Selfridge c.1910 |
Deaths
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| Thomas Hardy c. 1910-1915 |
Born 1840,
Stinsford, Dorset, the son of Thomas Hardy, stonemason and the local builder
and his wife Jemima Hand. Hardy’s
education ended when he was aged 16, and he became an apprentice for the local architect.
Hardy
trained as an architect at Dorchester before he moved to London, in 1862, where
he enrolled as a student at King’s College London. April 1862, Hardy joined Arthur Blomfield’s
practise as an assistant architect. During
1862-64, he worked with Blomfield on All Saint’s parish church, Windsor. During the mid-1860’s Hardy was in charge of
the excavation of part of the graveyard of St. Pancras Old Church.
Hardy never
felt at home in London, and during his time here, he became interested in social
reform and the works of John Stuart Mills, the English philosopher.
After five
years, Hardy concerned about his health returned back to Dorset where he dedicated
himself to writing.
Hardy met
and fell in love with Emma Gifford, whom he married during 1874,
Kensington. Hardy and his wife moved
back during 1885 to Max Gate, Doncaster, Dorset the house that Hardy designed,
and his brother built, after renting a house for a year at Surbiton. Even Hardy and his wife became estranged, Emma’s
death, 1912 had a traumatic effect on Hardy.
1914, Hardy married for the second time his secretary Florence Emily Dugdale. Hardy was appointed ta Member of the Order of
Merit and was first nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, during
1910. He was nominated the award again
11 years later.
Hardy’s
first novel “The Poor Man and the Lady” 1867, failed to find a publisher. He gained fame as an author for his novels “Far
from the Madding Crowd”, 1874, “The Mayor of Casterbridge”, 1886, “Tess
of the d’Urbervilles”, 1891 and “Jude the Obscure”, 1895.
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| Thomas Hardy's grave parish church Stinsford, Dorset |
After Hardy has died January 1928, Hardy had wished that he were to be buried with his first wife at the parish church, at Stinsford, Dorset. His family and friends concurred, and that Hardy’s ashes were placed in Westminster abbey’s Poet Corner, and his heart buried at Stinsford.
12th January
Events
1895 - The National
Trust is founded in the United Kingdom
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| RMS Queen Mary 2 |
Births
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| Shirley Eaton in "Goldfinger", 1964 |
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| Heather Mills |
Deaths
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| Nevil Shute, 1949 |
Born Nevil
Shute Norway, 1899. The son of Arthur
Hamilton Norway, the head of the Post Officer in Ireland. Shute was educated at
Dragon School, Shrewsbury School and finally at Balliol College, Oxford, where
the graduated in 1922 with a third-class degree in engineering science.
During the
First World War, Shute attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where he
trained as a gunner. Due to his stammer,
he could not take up his commission at the Royal Flying Corps. Although he served as a soldier with the
Suffolk Regiment. During the 1918 flu
pandemic he served in the military funeral parties.
After the
war, Shute began his engineering career with de Havilland Aircraft Company,
using his pen name Nevil Shute. With the lack of opportunities for
advancement, Shute took a position with Vickers Ltd in 1924. It was with Vickers, that Shute was in
development of airships, and was the Chief Calculator of the R100 airship
project. In 1929, Shute was promoted to Deputy Chief Engineer under Barnes
Wallis, and then becoming Chief Engineer after Wallis had left. Shute was made Fellow of Royal Aeronautical
Society.
Shute first
novel “Stephen Morris” written in 1923 but not published until 1961,
along its 1924 sequel “Pilotage”.
His published work was “Marazan”, 1926. Shute became more famous with his third of last
book “On the Beach”, 1957.
Shite died
in Melbourne, 1960, where he had been living since 1954 having not applying for
Australian citizenship.
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| Dame Agartha Christie DBE, 1958 |
Born, Agatha
Mary Clarissa Miller, 1890. The daughter
of Frederick Alvah Miller, a gentleman of substance and his wife Clarissa
Margaret Boehemer. They were a wealthy
upper-middle class family.
Christie was
a voracious reader from an early age.
Christie’s father, Frederick died later 1901. From 1902, Christie began to attend Miss
Guyer’s Girls School, Torquay. Then from
1905, her mother sent Christie to Paris, where she was taught in a series of pensionnats,
focusing on voice timing and piano playing.
Christie gave up the goal of performing professional.
After completing
her education, Christie returned to the United Kingdom, and during the winter
of 1907-1908 spent months during the warmer climate of Egypt. Whilst here, Christie writing under the
pseudonym of Monosyllaba started to write her first novel, “Snow Upon the
Desert”. Six publishers declined the novel.
1912
Christie met Archibald Christie whom she married months after the outbreak of
the First World War. During the course
of the war, Christie involved herself as a member of the Voluntary Aid
Detachment of the Red Cross.
1916,
Christie wrote her first detective novel which featured Hercule Poirot in “The
Mysterious Affair at Styles” The
second novel followed “The Secret Adversary”, 1922 featuring detective
couple Tommy and Tuppence.
Christie’s
mother who she had been exceptionally close died during 1926, the loss sent
Christie into a deep depression. Also,
during that year, Archibald had asked for a divorce. December 1926 famously disappeared leaving
her car at Newland Corner, Surrey. After
an extensive manhunt, it was until 10 days later that she was located at the
Swan Hydropathic Hotel, at Harrogate.
Christie
married for the second time, following the divorce with Archibald. 1928, Christie left England and took the
Orient Express to Istanbul and Baghdad.
Whilst in Iraq, she became friends with archaeologist Leonard Woolley
and his wife, who invited her to return to their dig in February 1930. It was during that second trip, that Christie
met Max Mallowen, 13 years her junior. They
were to marry that year.
During the Second
World War, Christie worked at the pharmacy at University College London, where
she updated, her knowledge of poisons.
1971, Christie was honoured in the Near Year Honours, with the honour of
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, three years after her
husband, Max Mallowen was knight for his archaeological work.
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| Agartha Christie's grave St.. Mary's church, Cholsey, Oxfordshire |
1976, Christie died peacefully at her home at Winterbrook House, Winterbrook, and was buried in the nearby churchyard of St. Mary’s, Cholsey, Oxfordshire. Her death was announced at two West End Theatres.
Christie
wrote 66 detective novels revolving around the fictional detectives Hercule
Poirot and Miss Marple, she also wrote 14 short story collections. Christie also wrote the successful and
longest running play, The Mousetrap.
13th January
Events
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| Folsom State Prison, California |
1968 – Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison, California.
Births
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| Michael Bond with Paddington Bear |
Deaths
1832 – Thomas
Lord (76) – English cricketer and founder of Lord’s Cricket Ground
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| James Joyce in Zurich c.1918 |
1941 – James Joyce (58) – Irish novelist, short story writer and poet
Joyce is best know for his work "Ulysses", 1922
14th January
Events
1911 – Roald
Amundsen’s South Pole Expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of Ross Ice
Shelf
1939 – Norway
claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica
Births
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| Warren Mitchell 1978 |
Mitchell was a BAFTA TV Award winner and twice a Laurence Olivier Award winner.
Deaths
1742 –
Edmond Halley (85) – English astronomer
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| The Reverend Lewis Carroll, c.1857 |
Born Charles
Lutwidge Dodgson, 1832. The son of Charles
Dodgson, Anglican cleric, and his wife Frances Jane Lutwidge.
After being educated
at home, Carroll who spoke with a stammer was sent to Rugby School, 1846. Then from 1850, studied at his father’s old
college, Christ Church, Oxford. Obtaining
a first-class degree in 1852, for Mathematic Moderations.
For the remainder
of his life, Carroll, had a long relationship with Christ Church, Oxford, where
he lived as a scholar and teacher.
Writing in
his pen name Lewis Carroll, Carroll is best known for his children’s fiction, “Alice’s
Adventures in Wonderland”, 1865 and its sequel “Through the
Looking-Glass”, 1871. Carroll also
wrote poems in gene of literary nonsense “Jabberwocky”, 1871 and “The
Hunting of the Snark”, 1874.
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| Lewis Carroll's grave Mount Cemetery, Guildford |
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| Anthony Eden |
15th January
Events
1889 – Coco-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlantic
Births
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| Ivor Novello |
He best remembered for his hit "Keep the Home Fire Burning" 1914, which was popular during the First World War.
He stared in two of Alfred Hitchcock's silent films "The Lodger", and "Downhill", 1927.
Novello also produced lavish West End productions including "Glamorous Night", 1935 and "The Dancing Years", 1939
1933 – Frank
Bough – English journalist
Deaths
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| Emma Hamilton as a young girl (aged 17), c.1782, by George Romney |
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| Fanny Kemble |
Kemble was a
notable actress from a theatre family, the daughter of Charles Kemble and his
Viennese born wife, Marie Therese De Camp.
Kemble’s younger sister was opera singer Adelaide Kemble.
Aged 20,
Kemble first appeared on stage as Juliet in Romeo and Juliet at Covent
Garden Theatre.
Having retired
from the stage, during 1834, whilst in American, Kemble married Pierce Mease
Butler. By 1845-18467 the marriage had
failed due Kemble having been shocked by the living condition of the slaves and
their treatment by the overseas and managers, of her husband’s
plantations. Kemble tried to improve the
lives of slaves.
With the
marriage over, Kemble returned back to Europe,
where she returned back to the stage.
Performing as a solo performer. Touring America in 1849, as a successful Shakespearean
reader.
Kemble wrote
two plays “Francis the First”, 1832 and “The Star of Seville”,
1837. Also published a volume of poems,
1844.
Kemble died
in London.
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| Roger Lloyd-Pack as Trigger in Only Fools and Horses, 1981 - 2003 |
16th January
Events
1707 – Scottish
Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain
1964 – Hello,
Dolly! Opens on Broadway
Births
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| Edith Frank |
Deaths
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| Bernard Lee |
Lee is best remembered for his role in 11 James Bod films, portraying the role of M
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| Christopher Tolkein |
2020 –
Christopher Tolkein (95) – son of author J. R. R. Tolkein
17th January
Events
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| Scott's party at the South Pole: Oates, Bowers, Scott, Wilson and Evans |
1912 – Captain Scott reaches the South Pole a month after Ronald Amundsen
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| Popeye |
Births
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| Anne, from a group portrait by her brother Branwell |
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| David Lloyd George c.1919 |
1899 – Nevil
Shute – English author
Deaths
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| Louis Comfort Triffany |
18th January
Events
1886 –
Modern field hockey is introduction with the formation of The Hockey Association
in England
Births
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| A. A. Milne, 1922 |
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| Oliver Hardy, 1930 |
Deaths
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| Rudyard Kipling, 1895 |
Born 1865, Bombay,
India. Kipling was the son of John
Lockwood Kipling and his wife Alice McDonald, who was described as a vivacious
woman.
When Kipling
aged 5, along with his 3-year-old sister, Alice were sent back to the United
Kingdom. They lived with a couple at
Southsea, who boarded children of British nationals living abroad. It was here
that they lived for the next 6 years.
Their mother, returning from India, removed the children from Lorne
Lodge, and from 1878, Kipling was admitted to United Services College, Westward
Ho!, Devon.
Kipling’s
parents thought that he did not have the academic ability to study at Oxford University,
nor did they have the wherewithal to finance him. Returning back to Indian,
Kipling was to be the assistant editor of a local newspaper, the Civil and
Military Gazette.
Kipling
returned back to London during 1889.
Leaving India during the March he travelled first to San Francisco via
Rangoon, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan.
In London,
Kipling had several short stories accepted by magazines. During the next two years, Kipling published
a novel “The Light That Failed”, 1891, had a niveous breakdown and met an
American writer and publishing agent, Wolcott Balestier. His doctor advised that Kipling should take a
sea voyage to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and India. He returned back to the United Kingdom after
hearing of his friend’s death.
The following
year, Kipling married Carrie Baestier.
Their first child, daughter Josephine was born 1892.
However, its
Kipling’s son, John who was killed during the First World War at the Battle of
Loos. It was his death that affected
Kipling. Kipling’s 1916 poem “By Boy
Jack”, is linked to John’s death.
Kipling is
best remembered for writing the novels “The Jungle Book”, 1894 and “Kim”,
1901. Also, for writing the poems “Mandalay”,
1890, “Gunga Din”, 1890 and “The Gods of the Copybook Headings”,
1919.
Kipling carried
of writing until the 1930s, suffered a haemorrhage in his small intestine,
January 1936, when he underwent surgery at Middlesex Hospital. He died a week later. Kipling was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium
and his ashes interred at Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey.
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| Cecil Beaton Portrait by James Lafayette, c. 1923 |
19th January
Events
1883 –
Thomas Edison electrical lighting system employing overhead wires begins
service at Roselle, New Jersey
Births
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| Portrait of James Watt (1736–1819) by Carl Frederick von Breda |
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| Edgar Allan Poe |
1946 – Dolly
Parton – American singer-songwriter
Deaths
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| Wilson Pickett |
Pickett, best known hits include "In the Midnight Hour", 1965, "Land of 1,000 Dances", 1962, "Mustang Sally", 1965 and "Funky Broadway", 1967
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