French writer Laure Junot, duchess d’Abrantès was born #OTD in 1784.
It was Honoré de Balzac who urged her to write her Memoirs, which he corrected tirelessly and which, once successful, she shamelessly denied he'd had a hand in.
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#OTD in 1836.
The funeral of Czech romantic poet Karel Hynek Mácha takes place on what should have been the day of his wedding to Eleonora Šomková, about a month after the birth of their child.
#OTD in 1856.
The first of George Eliot's Scenes of Clerical Life and her first work of fiction, "The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton", is submitted to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine by G. H. Lewes for anonymous publication.
Danish author Marie Bregendahl was born #OTD in 1867.
Her first novel Hendrik i Bakken was published in 1904. She went on to gain fame with En Dødsnat in 1912, based on the death of her mother when she was only 12.
#OTD in 1899.
William Gillette's play Sherlock Holmes, based (with authorisation) on the writings of Arthur Conan Doyle, opens in New York City with himself in the title rôle.
#OTD in 1930.
American novelist Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the first writer from the United States to receive the award.
Sinclair Lewis Nobel Lecture:
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1930/lewis/lecture/
#OnThisDay, 5 Nov 1872, suffragists Susan B Anthony and 13 other women illegally vote in the US Presidential election.
Anthony is subsequently arrested and put on trial. She is found guilty, but refuses to pay the fine. The judge decides not to jail her.
The votes were initially reported as a "minor topic".
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American physicist & philanthropist Alfred Lee Loomis was born #OTD in 1887.
Among his many innovations was LORAN, a radio navigation system for a marine or flight navigator to determine a vessel's location. He also invented the Aberdeen Chronograph.
Italian mezzo-soprano Faustina Bordoni died #OTD in 1781.
She became the principal performer of her husband Johann Adolph Hasse. In 1731 she was the leading lady in Hasse's Cleophis with Domenico Annibali in the premiere in Dresden.
Anna Bayerová was born #OTD in 1853.
She studied at University of Bern since University of Vienna denied her entry there. She provided critical healthcare to women & children often focusing on underserved & rural communities.
#OTD in 1902.
J. M. Barrie's comedy The Admirable Crichton is first performed, at the Duke of York's Theatre in London, starring H. B. Irving, Henry Kemble and Irene Vanbrugh.
#OTD in 1918.
Wilfred Owen is killed in action aged 25, at the Sambre–Oise Canal, with only five of his poems published. News of his death reaches his parents in Shrewsbury a week later on Armistice Day.
Heinrich Mathias Ernst Campendonk was born #OTD (Germany 3 Nov 1889 - Netherlands 9 May 1957). He was a member of the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter.
Bild mit Vögeln (Picture with #Birds ), 1916
Oil on canvas, 39 x 49.5 cm (15.3 x 19.4 in)
https://www.kettererkunst.com/details-e.php?obnr=123001403&anummer=545&detail=1
#OnThisDay, 3 Nov 1992, voters in Illinois, USA, make Carol Moseley Braun the first African-American US Senator. She takes up office in 1993.
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On this day in 1971 the first edition of the Unix Programmer's Manual was published, with the first man pages.