North Babylon Public Library

[American Experience @AmExperiencePBS]

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read."

A seminal novelist and playwright of the American Black and LGBTQ experience, James Baldwin died on December 1, 1987.

📸: Allan Warren

[North Babylon Public Library @nbablib]

Famous Birthdays: Madame Tussaud(1761), Mary Martin(1913), Richard Pryor(1940), Bette Midler(1945), Treat Williams(1951), Jeremy Northam(1961), Nestor Carbonell(1967), Sarah Silverman(1970) and Zoë Kravitz(1988).

[National Endowment for the Humanities @NEHgov]

Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus in #Montgomery, #AL, #OTD in 1955.

Explore Parks’s role in the civil rights movement, with the #NEHgrant-funded @PBS series “The African Americans”: https://t.co/HdMizwUXm0

[CSPAN @cspan]

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has died.

Learn more about her life and career by searching her C-SPAN appearances: https://t.co/u3qNP0VMCs

RIP.

[National Mall NPS @NationalMallNPS]

The first test of U.S. troops in the Atlantic Theater of World War II, Operation Torch - the Allied invasion of North Africa – began #OTD in 1942. Over 100,000 Allied troops came ashore or dropped by parachutes in waves, an important step toward defeating Nazi Germany.

[North Babylon Public Library @nbablib]

Looking for something to do this weekend?

[National Constitution Center @ConstitutionCtr]

#OnThisDay in 1960, President John F. Kennedy is elected.

Hear presidential historian Robert Dallek discuss Kennedy’s time in the White House:

https://t.co/4ICXaJxumH

[Ed Achorn @Ed_Achorn]

On this day in 1864, Abraham Lincoln defeated General McClellan to win re-election as our 16th president. He had been certain he would be defeated earlier in the year.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

#OnThisDay in 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X-rays.

The first X-ray image he took was of his wife Bertha's hand. The discovery of X-rays earned Röntgen the very first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.

Read more: https://t.co/7xMHvT6wa9

[North Babylon Public Library @nbablib]

Famous Birthdays: Edmond Halley(1656), Katherine Hepburn(1909), Morley Safer(1931), Bonnie Raitt(1949), Mary Hart(1950), Alfre Woodard(1953), Rickie Lee Jones(1954), Gordon Ramsay(1966), Courtney Thorne-Smith(1967), Parker Posey(1968), David Muir(1973) & Matthew Rhys(1974)

[Dittons Library @DittonsLibrary]

Literary Birthday – 8 November – Margaret Mitchell was an American author and journalist. She is famous for writing Gone with the Wind📷, for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

[North Babylon Public Library @nbablib]

Very interesting!

[Orkney Library @OrkneyLibrary]

Happy Birthday to Bram Stoker, born #onthisday in 1847. This is also your regular reminder that if Bram Stoker hadn't come across the name #Dracula while researching in a LIBRARY, the vampire in his bestselling novel was going to be called Count Wampyr. 🧛🦇

[North Babylon Public Library @nbablib]

Happy birthday 🎂!!!

[Bodleian Libraries @bodleianlibs]

It is now bound with another book once owned by Wolfreston, Giles Fletcher’s Licia, which (like #VenusAndAdonis) was also published in 1593.

p.s. It's our birthday too! 421 years since the Bodleian Library opened in 1602! 🎉 Cake for everyone.

[LibriVox.org @librivox]

#OnThisDay 1519: Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration. #History: https://t.co/hCPKWbm6d3 #LibriVox #audiobook