Elizabeth Gaskell. 29th September 1810 – 12th November 1865.
Monthly Archives: September 2020
On this day: a Dutch Ballerina
Dutch ballerina Marianne Hilarides (born 1933) photographed in the studio on the 28th of September, 1967.
Born in Java, modern-day Indonesia (under Dutch rule at the time), she had a successful career in ballet companies across Europe.
Hilarides died of dementia in 2015.
On this day: Fire at the WTC
This photograph was taken on the 26th of September, 2001. Firefighters struggle to extinguish fires at the site of the collapsed World Trade Center in New York more than two weeks after the terror attack.
By Mike Rieger/FEMA News Photo
On this day: a War Child in London
On this day: a War Child in London
This now-famous photograph, taken by Cecil Beaton, appeared on the cover of American LIFE Magazine on the 23rd of September, 1943. It shows Eileen Dunne, aged “3 and 3/4” sitting in her hospital bed in London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children after being injured in a German air raid.
The cover feature was significant, as it encouraged Americans – still more than a year out from joining the Second World War – to take more of an interest in the conflict.
The original caption for the photograph reads:
The wide-eyed young lady on the cover is Eileen Dunne, aged 3 3/4. A German bomber whose crew had never met her dropped a bomb on a North England village. A splinter from it hit Eileen. She is sitting in the hospital. A plucky chorus of wounded children had just finished singing in the North English dialect, “Roon, Rabbit, Roon.” The picture was taken by Cecil Beaton, the English photographer who generally specializes in fashionable or surrealist studies of society women.
On this day: Australian Victory in New Guinea
From the collection of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
22nd September 1943: Australian soldiers hold up Japanese flags captured in the Battle of Kaiapit in New Guinea that ended two days earlier.
The battle, which resulted in an Australian victory over Japan, was fought from the 19th to the 20th.
Happy Birthday, Where’s Wally?!
Puzzle book series Where’s Wally?, created by English illustrator Martin Handford, made its debut on the 21st of September, 1987, which makes Wally thirty-two years old today.
As the series was released around the world, several countries changed Wally’s name (e.g. “Where’s Waldo” that so often appears in popular culture in the United States).
On this day…
Cosmo Allegretti (Dancing Bear), Roberta Lubell, and Hugh “Lumpy” Brannum (Mr. Green Jeans) appearing in the American children’s television show Captain Kangaroo on the 20th of September, 1960.
Captain Kangaroo ran from 1955 to 1992.
On this day: Child Soldiers in Korea
This photograph is dated the 18th of September, 1950, and the caption reads as follows:
Two North Korean boys, serving in the North Korean Army, taken prisoner in the Sindang-dong area by elements of the 389th Infantry Regiment, are interrogated by a U.S. soldier shortly after their capture.
The Korean War broke out on the 25th of June, 1950. On that day North Korea (backed by China and the Soviet Union) invaded the South (supported by the United Nations).
On this day: Warsaw Castle Bombed
The Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland was bombed by the Nazis on the 17th of September, 1939, at the beginning of the Second World War.
While some attempts were made to save parts of the building, in the weeks that followed Adolf Hitler gave German soldiers orders to demolish the building.
In early October plans were made to blow the castle up, and the interior was dismantled and treasures were either put in storage or seized by Nazi dignitaries.
The destruction of the castle was part of the Pabst Plan, to rebuild Warsaw as a model city for the Nazis.
On this day: a Plane Crash in the Korean War
An explosion on the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Essex after a crash on the 16th of September, 1951, during the Korean War. A plane hit and destroyed parked aircraft onboard, killing seven.
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