November 11
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"Gotham" has been a nickname for New York City that first became popular in the nineteenth century; Washington Irving had first attached it to New York in the November 11, 1807 edition of his Salmagundi, a periodical which lampooned New York culture and politics. Irving took the name from the village of Gotham, Nottinghamshire, England: a place inhabited, according to folklore, by fools." --Sholem Stein |
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Art and culture
- 1887 - Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs are executed.
- 1918 - World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies.
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Births
- 1821 - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (d. 1881)
- 1867 - Charles Carrington, United Kingdom publisher of erotic books (d. 1921)
- 1883 - Ernest Ansermet, Swiss conductor (Parade) (d. 1969)
- 1898 - René Clair, French film director (d. 1981)
- 1911 - Roberto Matta, Chilean painter (d. 2002)
- 1920 - Roy Jenkins, British politician (d. 2003)
- 1922 - Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist (d. 2007)
- 1922 - Giorgio Manganelli, Italian avant-garde novelist and critic (d. 1990)
- 1926 - Sam Haskins, South African-born photographer (d. 2009)
- 1928 - Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer (d. 2012)
- 1929 - Hans Magnus Enzensberger, German writer (d. 2022)
- 1935 - Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress (d. 2019)
- 1941 - Fernando Ribeiro de Mello, Portuguese intellectual (d. 1992)
- 1954 - Mary Gaitskill, American novelist
- 1958 - Luz Casal, Spanish singer
- 1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio, American actor
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Deaths
- 1638 - Cornelis Corneliszoon van Haarlem, Dutch painter (b. 1562)
- 1751 - Julien Offray de La Mettrie, French physician and philosopher (b. 1709)
- 1855 - Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher (b. 1813)
- 1868 - William Dugdale , United Kingdom publisher (b. 1800)
- 1880 - Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (hanged)
- 1958 - André Bazin, French film critic and film theorist (d. 1918)
- 1976 - Alexander Calder, American artist (b. 1898)
- 1977 - Greta Keller, Vienna-born cabaret singer and actress (b. 1903)
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