Today in Canadian History - December 23, 1908
Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh born in Mardin, Ottoman Turkey. Karsh would go on to be one of the most famous portrait photographers of all time. (Above is his photo of André Malraux.)
Today in History - December 22, 1988
Environmental activist Chico Mendes assassinated in Brazil
Today in History - December 11, 1918
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn born in Kislovodsk.
Today in History - December 10, 1824
Proto-fantasy writer George MacDonald born in Huntly Scotland
Today in History - December 5, 1932
Little Richard born Richard Wayne Penniman in Macon, Georgia
Today in History - November 30, 1835
Mark Twain born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri
Today in History - November 30, 1700
A Swedish army of 8500 defeats four times that many Russian soldiers at the Battle of Narva.
Today in History - November 25, 1177
Baldwin IV King of Jerusalem (Baldwin the Leper) defeats Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard, making him far more successful than the other Baldwin IV (Stephen the Loser).
Today in History - November 23, 1887
Boris Karloff born William Henry Pratt in London
Today in History - November 20, 1923
Writer and Nobel winner Nadine Gordimer born in Johannesburg
Today in (Manitoba) History - November 13, 1971
Cree woman Helen Betty Osborne is kidnapped and murdered while walking down the street in The Pas, Manitoba. It will be sixteen years before any of her white killers are convicted.
Tonight at Aqua Books at 7pm: The Life of Helen Betty Osborne. A launch of David Robertson’s new graphic novel.
