January 4


People are fucked up.

On this day in 1903 – Topsy, an elephant, is electrocuted.

In 1958 – Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit.


In 1959 – Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.


In 2004 – Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars.


Birthdays

Joseph Suk


Gibson Gowland

Marsden Hartley
"The Virgin of Guadalupe"


A.E. Coppard

Augustus John
"Portrait of Marchesa Luisa Casati"


Wilhelm Lehmbruck
"Femme á genoux (The Kneeling One)"


Max Eastman...uh

Guy Pène du Bois
"Woman in a cloak"


André Masson
"Gradiva"


Lionel Newman


Robert Parrish


Rosalie Crutchley
Here she is in "The Possessed" BBC Miniseries on Mubi (A Masterpiece Theatre version of Demons by Fydor Dostoevsky) in 1969 as Varvara Stavrogin.

Barbara Rush


Sorrell Booke...in "Slaughterhouse Five" as Lionel Merble

Nora Iuga...("Two Poems from The Hunchbacks’ Bus")

Dyan Cannon


Jim Norton. Here he is in "Straw Dogs" as "Rat Man" Chris Cawsey


Arthur Conley


Bernard Sumner


Matt Frewer


Julian Sands


Michael Stipe


Dave Foley

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