This Week in History: International
From September 13-19:
1709 Birthday of English critic/poet/lexicographer Samuel Johnson: “I found your essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good, and the part that was good was not original.”
1759 Battle of Quebec
1778 Birthday of Scottish jurist/politician Lord Henry Brougham: “A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself.”
1821 Independence by Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua
1849 Birthday of Ivan Pavlov (Russian scientist who pioneered the study of conditioned reflexes: the Pavlovian Response)
1890 Birthday of English novelist/playwright Agatha Christie
1905 Birthday of film star Greta Garbo (Stockholm, Sweden)
1908 Esperanto was first introduced as a college course
1928 Birthday of Mickey Mouse
1935 Nazi Germany adopted the Nuremberg Laws (making anti-Semitism the country’s official policy)
1978 US President Jimmy Carter, Israel’s Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat returned from Camp David with the “Framework for Peace in the Middle East.”