Interior of Frank Lloyd Wright's Dana Thomas House which was designed for Springfield socialite and women's activist Susan Lawrence Dana, Springfield, Illinois. Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, July 2007.
Famed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright was born #onthisday in 1867.
"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye."
Irish novelist and short story writer best known for her fiction about life in wartime London, Elizabeth Bowen was born #onthisday in 1899.
"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist Thomas Mann was born #onthisday in 1875. Mann is one of the most prominent exponents of the German Exilliteratur, literature written in German by those who opposed or fled the Hitler regime. Mann fled in 1933 when Hitler rose to power, first to Switzerland and later to the United States.
The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departed from Paris #onthisday in 1883. The long-distance passenger train service was a showcase of comfort and luxury, the first of its kind.
The Quadricycle, the first automobile built by Henry Ford, powered by a two-cylinder gasoline engine and attaining a maximum speed of 20 miles per hour, was completed and successfully test run #onthisday in 1896.
Happy Birthday to American model and actress and cultural icon Marilyn Monroe, born #onthisday in 1926.
“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Influential humanist poet, essayist, and journalist Walt Whitman was born #onthisday in 1819.
Second-place finisher Ralph Mulford driving a Lozier during the Indianapolis 500. Photograph by Henry Ford, 30 May 1911.
The inaugural Indianapolis 500 race was run #onthisday in 1911. The Indy 500 is held annually at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and is known as the Greatest Spectacle in Racing.
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, The 35th president of the United States, was born #onthisday in 1917.
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
American essayist, philosopher, poet and leader of the transcendentalist movement, Ralph Waldo Emerson was born #onthisday in 1803.
French tennis legend, Wimbledon champion, and Olympic gold-medalist Suzanne Lenglen was born #onthisday in 1899. Lenglen was the first woman tennis celebrity and international sports star.
American transcendentalist journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate, Margaret Fuller was born #onthisday in 1810. Best known for her seminal book 'Woman in the Nineteenth Century', which is considered the first major feminist work in the U.S., she was a proponent of human rights across the spectrum, and advocated for the end of slavery as well as prison reform.
Young Mother Sewing. Oil on canvas, 1900, by Mary Cassatt.
American impressionist painter and printmaker Mary Cassatt was born #onthisday in 1844.
Red Cross founder Clara Barton's room at the Red Cross Headquarters in Beaufort, South Carolina. Photograph, c1893.
American nurse and humanitarian Clara Barton founded the American Red Cross #onthisday in 1881.
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."
British philosopher, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate Bertrand Russell was born #onthisday in 1872. He is considered one of the founders of analytic philosophy and to be one of the 20th century's premier logicians.
Maureen O'Sullivan, the American movie actress who played "Jane" in the Tarzan movies and mother of actress Mia Farrow, was born #onthisday in 1911.
Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan in a scene from 'Tarzan the Ape Man,' 1932.
Legendary American film and stage actor Henry Fonda was born #onthisday in 1905.
Here he is in his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath in 1940.
