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Hace 13 horas · Nachem Malech Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007), known by his pen name Norman Kingsley Mailer, was an American novelist, journalist, playwright, and filmmaker.In a career spanning more than six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after World War II.. His novel The Naked and the Dead was published in 1948 and brought him early renown.
Hace 13 horas · Saint Junípero Serra O.F.M. A portrait of Serra Apostle of California Born Miguel José Serra Ferrer (1713-11-24) November 24, 1713 Petra, Majorca, Spain Died August 28, 1784 (1784-08-28) (aged 70) Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, Las Californias, New Spain, Spanish Empire Beatified September 25, 1988, Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II Canonized September 23, 2015 ...
Hace 13 horas · Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907). This Proto-Cubist work is considered a seminal influence on subsequent trends in modernist painting.. Modernism was an early 20th-century movement in literature, visual arts, and music that emphasized experimentation, abstraction, and subjective experience. Philosophy, politics, architecture, and social issues also formed aspects of the movement ...
Hace 13 horas · Elliot Oliver Robertson Rodger (July 24, 1991 – May 23, 2014) was an English-American former college student and mass murderer responsible for the 2014 Isla Vista killings.On May 23, 2014, Rodger killed six people and injured 14 others by using knives, semi-automatic pistols, and his car in Isla Vista, California, near the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Hace 13 horas · Lynching of John William Clark in Cartersville, Georgia, September 1930, after killing Police Chief J. B. Jenkins [1] Lynching was the widespread occurrence of extrajudicial killings which began in the United States ' pre–Civil War South in the 1830s and ended during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
Hace 13 horas · Bertus Mulder, 95, Dutch architect ( Rietveld Schröder House ). [15] (death announced on this date) Grayson Murray, 30, American golfer, two-time PGA Tour winner, suicide. [16] Johnny Ngan, 71, Hong Kong actor ( The Seasons, A Kindred Spirit, File of Justice ), squamous-cell carcinoma.
Hace 13 horas · The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the "Fifties" or the "' 50s") (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959.. Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from World War II, aided by the post-World War II economic expansion.The period also saw great population growth with increased birth rates and ...
