January 3




It's Saturday, January 3rd.

Today is National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day, J.R.R. Tolkien Day, and Memento Mori Day

Vanitas ou Allegory of human life (1646) by Philippe de Champaigne


On this day in 1870 – Construction work begins on the Brooklyn Bridge.


In 1956 - A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower


In 1999 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA


2019 – Chang'e 4 makes the first soft landing on the far side of the Moon, deploying the Yutu-2 lunar rover.




Birthdays

Cicero - "To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child,"

Lucretia Mott

Raoul Koczalski


John Gould Fletcher
( - The Burning Mountain)

J.R.R. Tolkien
Tolkien used his skill in calligraphy to write the One Ring's iconic inscription, in the Black Speech of Mordor, using the Elvish Tengwar script.

Watercolour painting The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the-Water used as the frontispiece of the first American edition of The Hobbit.


Jack Levine
"Finger of Newt"


Herbie Nichols


Ray Milland
Here he is in "The House in Nightmare Park"


Anna May Wong


Marion Davies


Glen Larson

Anne Stevenson

Dabney Coleman
Here he is in "The Muppets Take Manhatten"


Robert Loggia
Here he is in "Jagged Edge"



Stephen Fabian


Sergio Leone


George Martin


Kurt Vile


Danica McKellar

Thomas Bangalter


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