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- 1071: George F. Handel
- ... engaged long nightime duels which only the Kings death in 1727 could stop. It's not a case then that after so much 'opera fever', the London opera houses would experience a period of deep crisis, while the founder of London's The Academy of Ancient Music invented the "Ballad Opera" cut on measure over the pre-Romantic English Folklore and nationalism. Haendel himself would compose some arias for the milestone ...
- 1072: Ernest Che Guevara
- ... kind of communist philosophy. He was moving away from "Moscow," towards Mao, and beyond into what is essentially the old idealistic, Anarchism. His formal breach with Soviet Communists came when, addressing the Organization for Afro-Asian Solidarity at Algiers (February 1965) he charged the USSR with being a tacit accomplice of imperialism by not trading exclusively with the Communist bloc and by not giving underdeveloped socialist countries aid without any thought ...
- 1073: Donatello
- ... was unpaid for and the Gattamelata monument not placed until 1453. Offers of other places reached him from Mantua, Modena, Ferrara, and even Naples, but nothing came of them. He was clearly passing through a crisis that prevented him from working. He was later quoted as saying that he almost died "among those frogs in Padua." In 1456 the Florentine physician Giovanni Chellini noted he had successfully treated the master for ...
- 1074: Andrew Jackson
- ... the tariff was a major controversy in the United States around the years of his Presidency and his strong support for a unified nation oven states rights would hold the country together in this national crisis. Jackson had promised the south a reduction in duties to levels established in 1828, which were acceptable to southerners as opposed to the higher rates since then. In 1832 his administration only sliced away a ...
- 1075: Martin Luther
- ... theologian and Biblical scholar. In 1512 Luther earned his doctorate in theology and became a professor of Biblical literature at Wittenberg University. Luther took his religious vocation very serious. This led him into a severe crisis in dealing with his religion. He wondered, "is it possible to reconcile the demands of God's law with human inability to live up to the law." Luther then turned to the New Testament book ...
- 1076: Mahatma Gandhi
- ... they were treated as inferiors in India, in England, and then in South Africa. In 1906, Gandhi began his peaceful revolution. He declared he would go to jail or even die before obeying an anti-Asian law. Thousands of Indians joined him in this civil disobedience campaign. He started protest campaigns and organized demonstrations, but never used violence. His philosophy was to never fight back against the atrocities, but still never ...
- 1077: Woodrow Wilson - Foreign Policy
- ... world. When studying the World War I time period it is painfully obvious that Woodrow Wilson was one of the more prominent figures of the day. Woodrow guided the nation through a turbulent and inexperienced crisis. As a leader he followed all the criteria that make up a good foreign policy, whether it was proclaiming neutrality, entering the war at the right time, or proctoring a settlement betwixt all the nations ...
- 1078: Robinson Crusoe
- ... ship was caught, he remarked, "It was my advantage, in one respect, that I did not know what they meant by 'founder,' till I inquired." So ill and afraid was he during this first harrowing crisis, that he vowed never again to leave solid ground if he was blessed enough to escape drowning. But once safe on shore he found his old longing resurfacing, and Robinson took sail aboard another ship ...
- 1079: Reinhold Niebuhr
- ... Realism and Political Problems (1953), The Self and the Dramas of History (1955), and Structure of Nations and Empires (1959). In addition he edited Christianity and Society, a quarterly, and the biweekly periodical Christianity and Crisis.
- 1080: Pompey
- ... honour. (Plutarch). Pompey was too much on the popular side, in that he had decided to restore the tribunician power. The state of Italy in 78 BC was dangerous, the senate was confronted with a crisis. It s statesmanship and its competence to wield the powers put into its hands were submitted to a searching test, and this ordeal was the first of many. M. Aemilius Lepidus, one of the consuls ...
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