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In 1452 the Italian painter and sculptor Leonardo da Vinci is born. His best known work is his painting Mona Lisa.
In 1759 the German Baroque composer George Frideric Handel dies. In 1818 the largest part of Postojna cave's interior was discovered by the local cave lamplighter Luka Čeč.
In 1605 Russian Czar Boris Godunov dies. He ruled from 1598 to 1605. His successor is Ivan IV Vasilyevich, known in English as Ivan the Terrible.
In 1869 the Slovene artist Rihard Jakopič is born. In 1933 famous Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballe is born. In 1956 on the island of Cuba actor Andy Garcia is born.
In 1744 Slovenian writer and translator Jurij Japelj is born. He translated the Holy Bible into English. In 1755 British doctor James Parkinson is born. He first described Parkinson's disease.
In 1821 the French poet Charles Baudelaire is born in Paris. His best known collection of poems is The Flowers of Evil.
In 1692 in Piran, Italian composer and violinist Giuseppe Tartini is born. In addition to his work as a composer he was also a music theorist. In 1818 German scientist August Wilhelm Hofmann is born.
In 1348 the first University in Europe is established in Prague. In 1795 the 'metre' became a new official measurement unit. In 1827 English chemist John Walker invented wooden matches.
In 885 St. Method, brother of St. Cyril, dies. Together they invented the Glagolithic alphabet. In 648 BC the old Greeks first describe a solar eclipse.
In 1900 American actor Spencer Tracy is born. In 1908 Ruth Elizabeth 'Bette Davis' is born. She was an American actress of film, television and theater.
In 1783 in New York American storyteller, essayist and diplomat Washington Irving is born. He wrote historical works about New York and the biography of Christopher Columbus.
In 1725 Giacomo Casanova, Italian adventurer, writer and lover, is born. He was one of the most educated people of his time. In the autobiography he says that he spent one night with 122 women.
In 1713 the French ‘Sun’ King Louis XIV declared 1. April as the ‘Day of Fools and Liars'. In 1578 English surgeon and anatomist William Harvey is born.
In 1596 the French philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes was born. He was the founder of modern philosophy. In 1727 mathematician Isaac Newton died in London.
In 1746 Spanish painter Francisco Goya is born. He was one of the greatest masters of portrait. In 1842 physician Crawford Long first uses ether for anaesthesia in surgery.
In 1874 the Slovene poet and general Rudolf Maister is born. He was the liberator of Maribor and fighter for Slovenian Koroška and Štajerska after the First World War.
In 1794 in Paris the famous Louvre museum is opened to the public. In 1809 the initiator of a new modern Paris Georges-Eugene Haussman is born.
In 1845 the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, who discovered the X-ray, is born. X-rays brought significant progress in the development of medicine.
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