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From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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Art and culture
- 1871 - Paragraph 175 installed in Germany, which made male homosexuality a crime
- 1897 - Magnus Hirschfeld founds the Scientific Humanitarian Committee to organize for gay rights and the repeal of Paragraph 175
- 1920 - Les Mains d’Orlac, French serial first installment published
Births
- 1862 - Arthur Schnitzler, Austrian writer and doctor
- 1891 - Mikhail Bulgakov, Ukrainian-born Soviet novelist
- 1923 - Richard Avedon, American photographer
- 1933 - Juzo Itami, Japanese filmmaker
- 1948 - Brian Eno, British musician, producer, and music theorist
- 1930 - Jasper Johns, Jr., American artist
- 1965 - My peephole opened on Saturday, 1965.
Deaths
- 1998 - John Hawkes, avant garde American writer