Richard Feynman is born in New York (1918), and Uruguay signs the Buenos Aires copyright treaty (1919). Born on this day: Salvador Dalí, Richard Feynman and Andrés Iniesta. Died: Bob Marley, Douglas Adams and Alvar Aalto.
31 events, 59 births and 69 deaths on this date.
Richard Feynman, later a Nobel-winning theoretical physicist, was born in New York on this day. He shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for work on quantum electrodynamics and gave physics the pictorial diagrams that still bear his name.
Copyright Tamiko Thiel 1984 · CC BY-SA 3.0Uruguay joined the Buenos Aires copyright treaty, an agreement among South American states to recognise authors' rights across national borders. It meant writers, composers and artists in signatory countries could expect their works to be protected in Uruguay too.
Minnesota was split off from the eastern half of Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union, joining as a free state. Its name comes from the Dakota word for the region, and it is still known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes.
Two medieval kings agreed to give up claims of feudal overlordship over each other's lands. The deal kept the House of Barcelona's Iberian affairs separate from French politics, ending a long tangle of rival loyalties.
Israeli agents seized Adolf Eichmann, a senior SS official who had helped plan the deportation of millions of Jews, from his hiding place near Buenos Aires. He was flown to Israel to face trial, which drew worldwide attention to the Holocaust.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical about a tribe of cats, based on T. S. Eliot's poems, began its run in London's West End. It went on to become one of the longest-running shows in theatre history, and its song Memory became a standard.
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Dalí was a Spanish surrealist painter, sculptor and writer, famous for dreamlike images such as The Persistence of Memory, with its melting clocks. He was known as much for his flamboyant public persona as for his technical skill with a brush.
Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964. · Public domain
Richard Feynman was an American theoretical physicist who shared the 1965 Nobel Prize for quantum electrodynamics. He is remembered for his pictorial diagrams of particle interactions, now called Feynman diagrams, and for his clear popular lectures on physics.
Copyright Tamiko Thiel 1984 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Spanish midfielder who spent most of his career at Barcelona, where he won 33 trophies, including nine league titles and four Champions League crowns. He has since moved into management and now coaches Gulf United in the UAE.
Bryan Berlin · CC BY-SA 4.0
Bob Marley was a Jamaican reggae singer and songwriter whose distinctive style carried Jamaican music to audiences worldwide. He is remembered as a Rastafarian icon and as a outspoken voice for social reform, cannabis legalisation and pan-Africanism.
Dennis Morris; Distributed by Island Records · Public domain
Douglas Adams was the British writer behind The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a comic science fiction series that began as a BBC radio show and grew into a sprawling book trilogy. He also teamed up on witty reference books that reimagined ordinary place names as everyday words.
Michael Hughes · CC BY-SA 2.0
Finnish architect and designer who treated buildings, furniture and glassware as one unified design. He is remembered for bent plywood furniture and organic modernist buildings such as Finland's Säynätsalo Town Hall.
Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
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