[Biography of the Day] from [Britannica]
August 20
Eero Saarinen
Born this day in 1910 in Finland, Eero Saarinen, the son of noted architect Eliel Saarinen, was one of the leaders in a trend toward exploration and experiment in American architectural design in the 1950s.
[On This Day] from [Britannica]
August 20
1975: Viking 1 launched
The robotic U.S. spacecraft Viking 1, built to explore the surface of Mars, was launched this day in 1975 and nearly one year later landed on Chryse Planitia, a flat lowland region in the northern hemisphere of the planet.
1968: The Warsaw Pact nations (except Romania and Albania), led by the Soviet Union, invaded Czechoslovakia to put an end to the Prague Spring.
1960: Senegal seceded from the Mali Federation, declaring its full independence.
1940: Leon Trotsky was assassinated by a Stalinist agent in Mexico.
1914: The German army captured Brussels during the initial German invasion of World War I.
1889: Labour activists closed the entire Port of London in the London Dock Strike.
1865: Austria and Prussia signed the Convention of Gastein, an agreement that temporarily postponed the final struggle between them for hegemony over Germany.
1833: Benjamin Harrison, a moderate Republican who became the 23rd president of the United States (1889–93) despite losing the popular vote by more than 95,000 to Democrat Grover Cleveland, was born in North Bend, Ohio.
1794: U.S. General “Mad” Anthony Wayne defeated the Northwest Indian Confederation in the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
1741: Danish explorer Vitus Bering, who was working for Russia, encountered Alaska.
1619: It is thought that slaves were first brought to the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia.
[Today's Word] from [Dr. Kazuo Iwata
[英語・一日一言] [岩田 一男 元一橋大学教授]
August 19
Behold, now is the accepted time;
behold, now is the day of salvation.
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
William Booth (died this day in 1912)
見よ、今は恵みの時なり、
Mi-yo ima-wa megumi-no toki-nari,
見よ、今は救いの日なり。
Mi-yo ima-wa sukui-no hi-nari.
汝恐れおののきて己が救いを全うせよ。
Nanji osore ononoki-te onore-ga sukui-wo mattou-seyo.
[日英混文稿]
August 20
Eero Saarinen
Born this day in 1910 in Finland, Eero Saarinen, the son of noted architect Eliel Saarinen, was one of the leaders in a trend toward exploration and experiment in American architectural design in the 1950s.
[On This Day] from [Britannica]
August 20
1975: Viking 1 launched
The robotic U.S. spacecraft Viking 1, built to explore the surface of Mars, was launched this day in 1975 and nearly one year later landed on Chryse Planitia, a flat lowland region in the northern hemisphere of the planet.
1968: The Warsaw Pact nations (except Romania and Albania), led by the Soviet Union, invaded Czechoslovakia to put an end to the Prague Spring.
1960: Senegal seceded from the Mali Federation, declaring its full independence.
1940: Leon Trotsky was assassinated by a Stalinist agent in Mexico.
1914: The German army captured Brussels during the initial German invasion of World War I.
1889: Labour activists closed the entire Port of London in the London Dock Strike.
1865: Austria and Prussia signed the Convention of Gastein, an agreement that temporarily postponed the final struggle between them for hegemony over Germany.
1833: Benjamin Harrison, a moderate Republican who became the 23rd president of the United States (1889–93) despite losing the popular vote by more than 95,000 to Democrat Grover Cleveland, was born in North Bend, Ohio.
1794: U.S. General “Mad” Anthony Wayne defeated the Northwest Indian Confederation in the Battle of Fallen Timbers.
1741: Danish explorer Vitus Bering, who was working for Russia, encountered Alaska.
1619: It is thought that slaves were first brought to the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia.
[Today's Word] from [Dr. Kazuo Iwata
[英語・一日一言] [岩田 一男 元一橋大学教授]
August 19
Behold, now is the accepted time;
behold, now is the day of salvation.
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
William Booth (died this day in 1912)
見よ、今は恵みの時なり、
Mi-yo ima-wa megumi-no toki-nari,
見よ、今は救いの日なり。
Mi-yo ima-wa sukui-no hi-nari.
汝恐れおののきて己が救いを全うせよ。
Nanji osore ononoki-te onore-ga sukui-wo mattou-seyo.
[日英混文稿]
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