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– after William Blake's poem " The Tyger ", the first verse of which is printed as the first page of the novel – and the book remains widely known under that title in markets where this edition was circulated.
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Aldous had another brother, Noel Trevelyan Huxley ( 1891 – 1914 ), who committed suicide after a period of clinical depression.
Fridtjof Nansen won international fame after reaching a record northern latitude of 86 ° 14 ′ during his Nansen's Fram expedition | North Pole expedition of 1893 – 96.
Their impolitic occupation of Columbus, Kentucky on September 3, 1861, two days before Johnston arrived in the Confederacy's capital, Richmond, Virginia, after his cross – country journey, drove Kentucky from its stated neutrality and the majority of Kentuckians into the Union camp.
It is named after André-Marie Ampère ( 1775 – 1836 ), French mathematician and physicist, considered the father of electrodynamics.
It could be suggested that in Murder on the Orient Express Poirot allows the murderers to escape justice as well, after he discovers that twelve different people stabbed the victim – Mr. Ratchett – in his sleep.
* 1895 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
* 1896 – In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1, 500 years after the original games are banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
* 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti ( Skenderbeg ).
* 1968 – Pierre Elliot Trudeau wins the Liberal Leadership Election, and becomes Prime Minister of Canada soon after.
* 1970 – Soviet submarine K-8, carrying four nuclear torpedoes, sinks in the Bay of Biscay four days after a fire on board.
* 2010 – A train derails near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.
* 1865 – Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.
* 1912 – The British passenger liner sinks in the North Atlantic at 2: 20 a. m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg.
* 1945 – World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide after being married for one day.
* 1777 – American Revolutionary War: British forces abandon the Siege of Fort Stanwix after hearing rumors of Continental Army reinforcements.
* 1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.
* 410 – The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days.
* 1862 – American Civil War: the Confederate ironclad is scuttled on the Mississippi River after suffering damage in a battle with near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
* 681 – Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube after defeating the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV south of the Danube delta.
The fruit matures in the autumn, 7 – 8 months after flowering.
Dashnaksutyun, which was outlawed by Ter-Petrosyan in 1995 – 96 but legalized again after Ter-Petrosyan resigned, also usually supports the government.
* 1898 – Spanish – American War: Spanish and American forces engaged in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
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* 1849 – John William Waterhouse, British painter ( d. 1917 )
* 1864 – William Bate Hardy, British biochemist ( d. 1934 )
* 1909 – William M. Branham, American evangelist ( d. 1965 )
* 1705 – William Cookworthy, English chemist ( d. 1780 )
* 1856 – William Martin Conway, English art critic and mountaineer ( d. 1937 )
* 1874 – William B. Bankhead, American politician ( d. 1940 )
* 1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a " long belt " of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.
* 1939 – William Least Heat-Moon, American author
* 1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
* 1766 – William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist ( d. 1828 )
* 1891 – William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, English general, 13th Governor-General of Australia ( d. 1970 )
* 1722 – Prince Augustus William of Prussia ( d. 1758 )
* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )
* 1666 – William Wotton, English scholar ( d. 1727 )
* 1790 – William Wentworth, Australian explorer and politician ( d. 1872 )
* 1877 – William Brennaugh, Canadian lacrosse player ( d. 1934 )
* 1911 – William Bernbach, American advertiser, co-founder of DDB Worldwide ( d. 1982 )
* 1872 – William Frederick Horry, English convicted murderer ( b. 1843 )
* Sir William Buell Richards ( Chief Justice ) – September 30, 1875
* William Alexander Henry – September 30, 1875
* Sir William Johnstone Ritchie – September 30, 1875
* 1770 – William Clark, American soldier, explorer, and politician ( d. 1838 )
* 1809 – William B. Travis, American lawyer and soldier ( d. 1836 )
* 1770 – Frederick William III of Prussia ( d. 1840 )
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