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Article: Anniversaries
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 3, 1996
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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 ...