Post by Horaz SC

"A drop of ink may make a million think." –Lord Byron HRZemérides, April 19 #TodayInHistory • 1770 – Marie Antoinette marries Louis XVI in a proxy wedding. • 1943 – Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, the "Bicycle Day". • 1971 – Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the Tate–LaBianca murders. • 1987 – The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with "Good Night". • 2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is elected to the papacy and becomes Pope Benedict XVI. ->Births 1897 – Jiroemon Kimura, Japanese super-centenarian, oldest verified man ever. 1932 – Fernando Botero, Colombian painter and sculptor. 1946 – Tim Curry, English actor and singer. 1978 – James Franco, American actor and producer. 1979 – Kate Hudson, American actress, daughter of Goldie Hawn. 1981 – Hayden Christensen, Canadian actor, also known as Anakin Skywalker. 1987 – Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player. ->Deaths 1578 – Uesugi "The God Of War" Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord. 1824 – Lord Byron, English-Scottish poet and playwright, major figure of the Romantic movement. 1881 – Benjamin Disraeli, English journalist and politician. 1882 – Charles Darwin, English biologist and theorist. 1906 – Pierre Curie, French physicist and academic, husband of Marie Curie. Full post + support: https://ko-fi.com/hrzgraph [H]ave a great Week