First edition cover (1843).
On December 19, 1843, Charles Dickens’ classic story
“A Christmas Carol”was published.
"Marley’s Ghost", original illustration by John Leech
from the 1843 edition.
Charles John Huffam Dickens
(1812 – 1870)
On December 17, 1892, Arthur Baldwin Turnure first published
a new magazine, dedicated to “the ceremonial side of life”
and targeted at “the sage as well as the debutante, men of
affairs as well as the belle.”
As a product of the Gilded Age, Vogue has chronicled and
influenced high society, fashion and culture ever since.
Publisher Condé Nast purchased Vogue in 1905, changing it
to focus almost entirely on women and fashion and creating
the first of its international editions (there are now over 20).
The magazine has remained popular and relevant ever since,
regularly featuring the work of world-famous models, writers
and photographers.
Arthur Baldwin Turnure(1856–1906)
Vogue, November 2024.
On November 23, 1936, the first issue of the pictorial magazine
Life was published, featuring a cover photo of the Fort Peck
Dam’s spillway by Margaret Bourke-White.
Life actually had its start earlier in the 20th century as a different
kind of magazine: a weekly humor publication, not unlike today’s
The New Yorker in its use of tart cartoons, humorous pieces and
cultural reporting.
When the original Life folded during the Great Depression, the
influential American publisher Henry Luce bought the name and
re-launched the magazine as a picture-based periodical on this
day in 1936.
Henry Robinson Luce (1898 – 1967)
This 2012 photo shows the Fort Peck Dam spillway in
northeast Montana.
On November 10, 1928, the first installment of All Quiet on the
Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque’s acclaimed novel of
World War I, appeared in the German magazine Vossische
Zeitung.
Remarque died in 1970 with his wife, the actress Paulette
Goddard, at his side.
Erich Maria Remarque
(22 June 1898 – 25 September 1970
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Robert Redford at 10.
1962
Charles Robert Redford Jr. is a retired actor and filmmaker. He
has received numerous accolades such as an Academy Award,
a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the
Cecil B. DeMille Award in 1994, the Screen Actors Guild Life
Achievement Award in 1996, the Academy Honorary Award in
2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005, the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 2016, and the Honorary César in 2019. He
was named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people
in the world in 2014 (below). He is 88 today.
