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| | 2009 oddd.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01) |
 | | It is the Bicentennial of the births of Louis Braille, Charles Darwin, Edward Fitzgerald, William Gladstone, Maxim Gorki, Abraham Lincoln, and Felix Mendelssohn. |
 | | In 1933 Gorky edited an infamous book about the Belomorkanal, presented as an example of "successful rehabilitation of the former enemies of proletariat." enemies of proletariat With the step-up of Stalinist repressions and especially after the death of Sergei Kirov in December 1934, Gorky was placed under unannounced house arrest in his Moscow house. |
 | | Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, known simply as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 – November 4, 1847) was a German composer of the early Romantic period. |
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