BORN TODAY: in Anama, New Zealand – Judith Eleanor Jane Peter, better known as Juliet, artist, potter and printmaker.
Category Archives: Arts and Literature
17th September, 1915 (Friday)
BORN TODAY: in Pandharpur, in the state of Maharashtra, India – Maqbool Fida Husain, indian painter.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/exhibitions/mfhusain/m.f.-husain-lithographs-at-the-v-and-a
7th September 1915 (Tuesday)
BORN TODAY: in Milan – Maria Corti, Italian philologist, literary critic and novelist, “considered one of the leading literary scholars of post-World War II Italy”, despite that her “early academic career coincided with Italian Fascism and was curtailed by laws which prohibited women from holding university or liceo teaching positions”. [Wikipedia]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Corti
War!
War from the Air: A German zeppelin air raid on east and south east London bombs residential areas, killing civilians, including women and children.
http://lewishamwarmemorials.wikidot.com/incident:7-september-1915
http://www.iancastlezeppelin.co.uk/78-sept-1915-1/4587505645
28th August 1915 (Saturday)
BORN TODAY: in Boston, Massachusetts – Starling Burgess, better known as Tasha Tudor, illustrator and writer of children’s books.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasha_Tudor
War!
On the (Turkish) home front: In the town of Cizre, near the Syrian border, the authorities execute Philippe-Jacques Abraham, an ethnic Assyrian Bishop of the Chaldean Catholic Church, and Flavianus Michael Malke, the Syrian Catholic eparch, before having their bodies dragged through the streets of Cizre.
14th August 1915 (Saturday)
BORN TODAY: in Bristol – Mary Fedden, British artist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Fedden
Transportation: Ten die in a rail crash in the English Midlands.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weedon_rail_crashes
30th July, 1915 (Friday)
BORN TODAY: in Brighton, England – Rachel Amos (later Bromwich), “Celtic scholar celebrated for her masterly dictionary of Welsh and British legend” [The Independent].
War!
Western Front: At one of the narrowest sections of no-man’s land, at Hooge in Belgium, German soldiers surprise British defenders with six of their new Flammenwerfer (flamethrowers) to capture the Hooge crater. [Burg & Purcell: Almanac of World War 1].
http://www.ramsdale.org/hooge.htm
Australia: WIth a growing sense of unity among the Australian states, the nation holds its first “National Day”.
https://www.awm.gov.au/blog/2013/01/22/the-other-australia-day-30-july-1915/
In Gosford, New South Wales, Miss McCabe appears as “Britannia”, holding a trident. transported in a Chrome Yellow Renault garlanded with flowers. [Flickr].
While in New Zealand, farmer and diarist George Adkin “levelled heaps in [his] Cow p[addock] all day”.
27th July 1915 (Tuesday)
BORN TODAY: in Amsterdam – Wilhelmus Johannes Maria (Willem) Hofhuizen, Dutch expressionist painter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Hofhuizen
War!
A bored expat writes: T. E. Lawrence (later – “of Arabia”), stationed as an intelligence officer in Cairo, writes home to his family:
“There is of course, nothing happening here, or likely to happen. Reports, and ciphering and drawing maps all day. The Dardanelles show will end soon:- Syria is quite quiet, though the Armenian villages in the North have been broken up, and the people scattered to various districts. No massacres, however, as yet. I can’t think of anything else to say:- The hot weather, as Father is interested in it, will end at the end of September. It’s not very hot now – and besides I am never more than about 5 minutes in the open air.”
http://www.telstudies.org/writings/letters/1915-16/150727_family.shtml
7th July 1915 (Wednesday)
BORN TODAY: in Birmingham, Alabama – Margaret Abigail Walker, novelist and poet.
http://www.nndb.com/people/832/000114490/
Extreme Weather: A violent storm kills at least 38 people in Cincinatti, Ohio. “An uncertain number of people drowned in overturned boats in the Ohio River.”
http://ohsweb.ohiohistory.org/swio/pages/content/1915_winds.htm
War!
On the Southern Front: The first battle of the Isonzo, between Italian and Austro-Hungarian forces, draws to a close after two weeks.
“The first battle of the Isonzo cost the Italians 14,947 casualties, including 1,500 men taken prisoner. The Austrians lost 9,948 men, a higher proportion of their army on the Isonzo, but not enough to win the Italians a breakthrough. The search for that breakthrough would result in ten more Italian attacks on the Isonzo, none of which would achieve the decisive breakthrough.” [www.historyofwar.org]
1st July 1915 (Thursday)
BORN TODAY:
~ in Gradel’s restaurant, in Whitechapel, in the heart of London’s East End – The Ben Uri Gallery.
http://www.benuri.org.uk/public/?history-of-ben-uri
~ In Australia – the Commonwealth Lighthouse Service, now operating as Lighthouses of Australia Inc, providing “an extensive network of aids to navigation around the coastline… comprising nearly 490 aids at approximately 380 sites”
19th June 1915 (Saturday)
BORN TODAY:
~ at the New York naval shipyard – USS Arizona, a Pennsylvania class battleship sent to the bottom of Pearl Harbour on 7th December 1941, aged 26, along with 1,177 US servicemen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=USS_Arizona_(BB-39)
~ In Brooklyn – the Fourth Avenue subway, with trains running to Coney Island.
http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Brooklyn’s_Subway_Will_Open_Today_(Fourth_Ave._Line)_(1915)
~ in the Bronx – Julius Schwartz, pioneer comic editor.
http://www.nndb.com/people/835/000044703/
~ In Harlem – Henry Christian LeTang, choreographer.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.obituaries/kOx5hNexzGA
onehundredyearsagotoday 