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.
On July 14th, 1946, at the dawn of the post-World War II baby
boom, Dr. Benjamin Spock published The Common Sense
Book of Baby and Child Care. It would become a foundational
work on the topic of parenting, transforming how generations
of children were raised.
The book, which has sold more than 50 million copies and
been translated into more than 50 languages, stands as one
of the best-selling nonfiction works of the 20th century.
The book’s premise told mothers, "You know more than you
think you do."
Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903 – March 15, 1998)
On June 30, 1905, Albert Einstein published “Zur Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper (On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies),”
a paper that sets out his theory of special relativity, in the
German physics journal Annalen der Physik. Einstein’s
groundbreaking work shattered the foundations of physics.
George Orwell’s novel of a dystopian future, 1984, was
published on June 8, 1949. The novel’s all-seeing leader,
known as “Big Brother,” became a universal symbol for
intrusive government and oppressive bureaucracy.
George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair)
(25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950)
