February 13th
February 13, 1883
Wilhelm Richard Wagner dies. He was a German composer and famous for his operas.Perhaps his most well-known works is the magnificent Die Walkure” (The Ride of Valkyries).
February 13, 1894
The Lumiere brothers patent the cinematographe, a machine that combines movie camera and projector.
February 13, 1931
New Delhi becomes the capital of India.
February 13, 1950
Peter Gabriel is born. He is an English musician, former member of the Genesis band.
February 13, 1970
Black Sabbath release one of their most successful album Black Sabbath.
February 13, 2000
The last “Peanuts ” comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.
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Time has come for me to watch inception starring Leo Dicaprio. And i did. Did I?I remember watching the film but was i dreaming instead?Did i have a dream of watching inception or i watched the film? Maybe it was a dreamy film. No. Did i have a dream where i was dreamimg of watching the film? Was it a dream within a dream with severeal dreamy layers. God . I ‘m confused.
February 12th
February 12, 1804
Immanuel Kant dies. Kant was a German philosopher with an interest in the theory of knowledge. He was into the structure of reason and one of his most known work is the Critique of Pure Reason.
February 12, 1809
Abraham Lincoln is born. He served as the 16th president of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
February 12, 1809
Charles Darwin is born. Darwin was an English naturalist claiming that all species of life come from a common ancestry. In his most famous work in 1859 On the Origin of Species Darwin developes his theory of natural selection.
February 12, 1934
The Austrian Civil War begins.
February 12, 1947
A meteor creates an impact crater in Sikhote- Alin, Soviet Union.
February 12, 1956
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins records the song I put a spell on you.
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February 10th
February 10, 1634
Galileo says the famous statement ” and yet it moves” after facing the Roman Inquisition.
February 10. 1755
Charles de Montesquieu dies.He was a French political thinker at the Enlightenment period.
February 10, 1898
Bertolt Brecht is born. One of the most important and influential play writers of the 20th c.
February 10, 1975
Nikos Kavvadias dies. He was one of the most famous and important poets of Greece.
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Eurythmics (Annie Lenox and David Stewart) were formed in 1980.They were quite successful in the 80s and perhaps their biggest hit is sweet dreams (are made of this).Nice song but i like sex crime better. SexCrime 1984 is found at the 1984(for the love of Big Brother) album.
Sexcrime(1984) was used as a soundtrack to the film Nineteen eighty-four.
The film was an adaptation of George Orwell’s novel 1984.
The film, let alone the novel, describes a collectivist society whose members are under mind-control, continuously observed and manipulated. The novel is one of the best political writings of the 20th c.
February 9th
February 9,1895
William Morgan presents a new game, volley-ball.
February 9, 1934
The Balkan Entente is formed.
Soyuz 17, the Russian spacecraft, returns to Earth.
February 9, 2009
Robert Plant wins five Grammys for his album Raising Sand, for which he worked together with the country singer Alison Krauss.
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February 8th
February 8, 1692
A doctor from Salem, Massachusetts, claims that satan has dominated three girls. This statement will later lead to the Witch Hunting in Salem.
February 8, 1855
The Devil’s Footprints appear in Devon. After a snowfall, trails of hoof-like marks appear in the snow, following a straight line for over 100 miles. There is no explanation for the incident so far.
February 8, 1915
The Birth of a Nation by D.W.Griffith premieres in Los Angeles.
February 8, 1916
DaDa begins in Zürich. A cultural movement that involved art, painting, poetry, theatre and so on. Through gatherings and publication of their manifestos, Dadaists managed to influence later art styles.
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