Ingrid Bergman earns Best Actress Oscar for Anastasia (1956), and Malta becomes a republic while staying in the Commonwealth (1974). Born on this day: Taylor Swift, Heinrich Heine and Christopher Plummer. Died: Donatello, Moses Maimonides and Wassily Kandinsky.
27 events, 70 births and 64 deaths on this date.
Bergman won the Best Actress Oscar for playing a woman claiming to be the lost Russian Grand Duchess Anastasia. It was one of her three Academy Awards, placing her among few actresses to win that many.
Arthur Cantor · Public domainMalta replaced its monarchy with a republic on this day in 1974, though it chose to remain a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. The move came a decade after the island had won independence from Britain in 1964.
On this day in 1962, the agency put into orbit Relay 1, a satellite that received radio and television signals and sent them back out again. It was one of the first working links that let television pass between continents.
Robert Guiscard, the Norman leader, took Salerno, the Lombard capital. Duke Gisulf kept up his resistance from the citadel until the following May, months after the city had given in.
Israel's parliament voted to move the seat of government from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, a decision that put the city at the centre of the new state's institutions. The move remains disputed, since many countries keep their embassies in Tel Aviv.
The hermit Pietro da Morrone, chosen pope in a deadlocked election, stepped down to go back to a simple life of prayer. He became the first pope to resign of his own accord, a precedent the Church still follows.
Sailko · Public domain
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Taylor Swift is an American singer-songwriter known for autobiographical songs and frequent reinventions of her sound, from country to pop to folk. Her records have sold in enormous numbers, and her Eras Tour became the highest-grossing live music tour on record.
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Heine was a German poet whose early lyrics were set to music by Schumann, Schubert and Mendelssohn. His sharp satire angered German authorities, and he spent his last 25 years in Paris.
Moritz Daniel Oppenheim · Public domain
Christopher Plummer was a Canadian actor whose seven-decade career spanned stage, film and television. He is best remembered as Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music, and he won an Academy Award for Beginners.
20th Century Fox · Public domain
Donatello was the Florentine sculptor who revived classical forms and made the first freestanding nude male statue since antiquity, his bronze David. He worked across stone, bronze, wood and clay, and his techniques spread through Rome, Padua and Siena.
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Medieval rabbi, philosopher and physician who served as personal doctor to Saladin. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah, a codification of Jewish law, still holds major authority in Judaism.
Blaisio Ugolino · Public domain
Kandinsky was a painter and art theorist who is widely regarded as one of the first to make purely abstract works. He taught at the Bauhaus until the Nazis closed it in 1933, then spent his final years in France.
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