Franz Schubert born in Vienna (1797), and The United Kingdom leaves the European Union (2020). Born on this day: Franz Schubert, Ōe Kenzaburō and Justin Timberlake. Died: John Galsworthy, Guy Fawkes and St. John Bosco.
28 events, 76 births and 58 deaths on this date.
Franz Schubert came into the world in the Himmelpfortgrund suburb of Vienna and went on to write more than 600 songs, along with symphonies and chamber works. He is remembered above all for his Lieder and his Unfinished Symphony, though he died young.
Wilhelm August Rieder · Public domainAfter 47 years as a member, the UK formally left the European Union at the close of 31 January 2020, under the process set out in Article 50. The departure ended a long and often contested relationship that had shaped British trade, law and politics since 1973.
A fire ignited by spilled oil in Molo, western Kenya, killed at least 113 people and injured more than 200. It came only days after a blaze at a Nakumatt supermarket in Nairobi had already claimed at least 25 lives.
Stalin's government sent Trotsky, once Lenin's close partner, to the city of Alma-Ata in Soviet Central Asia. It was one step in his long fall from power inside the Communist Party.
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Venereal disease, the older name for sexually transmitted infection, was treated in a dedicated clinic here for the first time. Many of these infections are curable today, yet they often cause no symptoms, so they spread unnoticed.
Two neighbouring settlements, Juneautown and Kilbourntown, were joined into one city after a bitter dispute over a bridge known as the Milwaukee Bridge War. The merger gave the growing port one government.
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Born in a Vienna suburb, Schubert wrote more than a thousand works in a short life, including over six hundred songs, and is remembered above all for his Lieder. He died in 1828, aged just thirty-one.
Wilhelm August Rieder · Public domain
Ōe was a Japanese novelist and essayist whose work tackled nuclear weapons, social outsiders and existential questions. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1994, becoming one of the most widely read Japanese writers abroad.
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Justin Timberlake is an American singer, songwriter and actor, best known as a member of NSYNC and for his solo hits such as SexyBack. He also appeared in films including The Social Network and the animated Trolls.
Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America · CC BY-SA 2.0
Galsworthy gave up law for writing and became best known for The Forsyte Saga, a family chronicle that spans three generations. He also wrote socially charged plays and won the 1932 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Guy Fawkes was executed in London for his part in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament. His neck broke on the scaffold, which spared him the full agony of hanging, drawing and quartering.
Crispijn van de Passe the Elder · Public domain
Italian priest who worked with street children and young offenders in Turin, teaching through kindness rather than punishment. He founded the Salesians, a religious order that still runs schools and youth work around the world.
Carlo Felice Deasti · Public domain
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