William Wordsworth, Abraham Lincoln and the Titanic

William Wordsworth
The 14th Century
- 1367 – Future King of England, Henry IV, is born.
The 15th Century
- 1452 – The birth of Leonardo da Vinci. One of greatest Italian Renaissance artists ever, who was a genius painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer.

With Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ at the Louvre, Paris, France (July 2008)
The 19th Century
- 1802 – William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy, come across a long belt of daffodils, whilst on a walk around Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, in the English Lake District, United Kingdom; which inspires Wordsworth to pen the poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (a.k.a. Daffodils).
- 1843 – The Birth of American Author, Henry James.
- 1865 – After being in a coma for nine hours; having been shot on the head the night before, by actor John Wilkes Booth; President of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln, succumbs to his injuries and dies at 7:22 a.m.
- 1889 – Artist, Thomas Hart Benton, is born.
- 1896 – Closing Ceremony of the very first modern day Olympic Games, Summer Olympics 1896, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, takes place in Athens, Greece. The multi-sport event was held between 6th and 15th of April 1896.

Abe Lincoln & The Titanic
The 20th Century
- 1912 – Two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg, the British passenger liner, RMS Titanic, sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m. Only around 700 people out of the 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive the tragedy.
- 1922 – Hindi & Urdu poet and Hindi film lyricist, Filmfare Award winner, Hasrat Jaipuri, is born.
- 1938 – Birth of future Italian film actress, Claudia Cardinale.
- 1959 – Birth of future British actress, Emma Thompson.
- 1989 – 96 people died, and 766 people were injured, when they got crushed, during an FA Cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England, UK. The most of any stadium-related disaster in British history.
- 1990 – Future British actress, Emma Watson, was born

Claudia Cardinale
Today – That Year
Historical Timeline with Nuwan Sen
Nuwan Sen’s Historical Sense
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Happy belated birthday La Cardinale, such a beautiful lady and her huge brown eyes are one of the wonders of the world!
Yes, she is a great beauty. I loved her in Visconti’s Il Gattopardo (1963) and The Pink Panther (1963).