This Day In History
Friday, May 18, 2012
On This Day
Events
in 1910
Births
in 1048
Omar Khayyám was a Persian polymath: philosopher, mathematician, astronomer and poet. He also wrote treatises on mechanics, geography, mineralogy, music, climatology and theology.
in 1919
Dame Margot Fonteyn de Arias was an English ballerina of the 20th century. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest classical ballet dancers of all time. She spent her entire career as a dancer with the Royal Ballet, eventually being appointed Prima Ballerina Assoluta of the company by HM Queen Elizabeth II.
Deaths
in 1799
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was a French playwright, watchmaker, inventor, musician, diplomat, fugitive, spy, publisher, arms dealer, satirist, financier, and revolutionary (both French and American).
«The only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today»
Henry Ford
«The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice»
Mark Twain
«Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line»
Barack Obama
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