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1883 is an American Western drama television miniseries created by Taylor Sheridan that premiered on December 19, 2021, on Paramount+. The series stars Tim McGraw , Faith Hill , Sam Elliott , Isabel May , LaMonica Garrett , Marc Rissmann , Audie Rick, Eric Nelsen , and James Landry Hébert.
Elsa Maxwell (May 24, 1883 – November 1, 1963) was an American gossip columnist and author, songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality and professional hostess renowned for her parties for royalty and high society figures of her day. Maxwell is credited with the introduction of the scavenger hunt and treasure hunt for use as party games in ...
This is a list of notable people who died of starvation : Roman imperial princess, granddaughter of Augustus and mother of Caligula, starved to death (perhaps on the orders of Tiberius) in her exile on the island of Pandateria . Greek philosopher, sage, mathematician, physicist and astronomer. King of Magadha from 542 to 492 BC.
The Trial of the 193 was a series of criminal trials held in Russia in 1877-1878 under the rule of Tsar Alexander II. The defendants were 193 socialist students and other “revolutionaries” charged with populist “unrest” and propaganda against the Russian Empire. The Trial of the 193 was the largest political trial in the history of ...
Events. 22 June – The DELAG Zeppelin dirigible, Deutschland, makes the first commercial passenger flight from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany. The flight takes nine hours. 16 August – Berliner FV, German association football club founded. Gymnsaium Lerchenfeld is founded in Hamburg.
6 August: A blackout leaves 400,000 people without electricity in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires, one after government representatives deny a petition to raise power fees. President Kirchner voices suspicion. 11 August: Argentina adheres to the Convention on the imprescriptibility of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
3412 Kafka, provisional designation 1983 AU2, is an asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 10 January 1983, by American astronomers Randolph Kirk and Donald Rudy at Palomar Observatory in California, United States. [5] [6] The asteroid was named after writer Franz Kafka.
Robert Bloch – Psycho. Antoine Blondin – A Monkey in Winter (Un Singe en hiver) Heinrich Böll – Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Billard um halb zehn) Ray Bradbury – A Medicine for Melancholy. Jurij Brězan – Der Gymnasiast. John Brophy – The Day They Robbed the Bank of England.
1809. Jørgen Jørgensen seizes power in Iceland and declares independence, but is deposed by the Danes shortly afterwards. [citation needed] 1835. The first copy of Fjölnir is published. [citation needed] 1841. Jón Sigurðsson starts publishing New Associated Writings. [citation needed] 1843. 8 March.
October 16 – The Million Man March is held in Washington, D.C. The event was conceived by Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. October 23 – Louis Jones Jr. is convicted of the kidnapping and murder of Tracie McBride, having abducted her at gunpoint from Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas.