Article: Anniversaries

Births: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator and statesman, 106 BC; Pietro Antonio Metastasio, poet, 1698; Sir James Stephen, colonial under- secretary and historian, 1789; Jean-Baptiste Madou, painter and lithographer, 1796; Douglas William Jerrold, playwright and humorist, 1803; Henriette Gertrud Walpurgis Sontag, soprano, 1806; Antoine-Thomson d'Abbadie, explorer, 1810; Robert Whitehead, inventor of the naval torpedo, 1823; George Manville Fenn, novelist, 1831; Father Damien (Joseph de Veuster), missionary, 1840; Sir James Jebusa Shannon, painter, 1862; Henry Handel Richardson (Ethel Florence Richardson), novelist, 1870; Cleme nt Richard Attlee, first Earl Attlee, statesman, 1883; James ...

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