In 1971 East Pakistan proclaimed its independence, taking the name Bangladesh.
The Feast of the Annunciation.
Image: The Annunciation, Henry Ossawa Tanner (1898)
Born in 1886 – Edward Weston, American photographer.
Above: White Sands, 1946
Born in 1944 – Michael Nyman, English pianist and composer.
Video: Nyman’s “An Eye for Optical Theory”, from the score for Peter Greenaway’s film, The Draughtman’s Contract. Performed by The Michael Nyman Band.
Born in 1935 – M. Emmet Walsh, American actor.
Above: Walsh in Blood Simple.
Born in 1880 – Hans Hofmann, a German-born American painter.
Above: Combinable Wall, 1961
Born in 1928 – Fred Rogers, American television host.
In 1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage, La Sortie de l’Usine Lumière à Lyon,
using their newly patented cinematograph
Born in 1874 – Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian philosopher.
“It is equally true to say that the place of the Son of God is in the heart and that his place is on Golgotha. This is the world’s tragedy. The paradox of the cross is that it is born of the world’s evil, and it is the world’s salvation from evil.”
In 1959 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, fled Tibet for India.
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