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To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.
An Irish philosopher and clergyman.
A British chemist who accidently produced the first synthetic dye mauve in 1856.
Italian novelist, poet, and playwright.
a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer whose tragically short career was brought to an end by mental illness.
An American writer, who was the first to use the term Beat Generation in reference to the group of American writers
The southern African chief Moshoeshoe I is granted British protection from the Boers, making Basutoland (modern Lesotho) a British protectorate.
The Girl Scouts of the United States of America is founded.
President Franklin Roosevelt holds his first fireside chat by radio, to encourage support for the New Deal.
The Anschluss (annexation) of Austria takes place when German troops invade and occupy the country, and a Nazi government is formed.
Mauritius becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth.
Pope John Paul II issues an apology for the Catholic Church's past errors, especially in fostering intolerance and injustice toward Jews, indigenous people, women and others.
An American writer, who was the first to use the term Beat Generation in reference to the group of American writers, was born on 12th March 1922 in Massachusetts. He won a football scholarship to Columbia College. In New York he befriended several writers, including William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, who also became leading figures of the Beat movement. Kerouac joined the United States Navy in the 1940s, during World War II, but was soon discharged on psychiatric grounds after he refused to take orders. All of Kerouac's writings are autobiographical. His first novel, The Town and the City (1950), describes the disintegration of his own family. His best-known novel is On the Road (1957), a loosely structured account of the adventures of several characters, including the author,who travel across the United States and into Mexico by hitchhiking, bus, and rental cars. In search of freedom and enlightenment, they embrace drugs, alcohol, sex, and jazz, especially bebop, during their wanderings. The book's publication catapulted Kerouac to fame. On the Road is regarded as a classic work of the Beat Generation. Kerouac typed the original manuscript of On the Road as a single paragraph over a three-week period in April 1951, fueled by coffee and the stimulant Benzedrine, on several long sheets of drawing paper. He later taped these together into a single scroll, 120 ft long, to approximate a continuous, spontaneous, and uninhibited flow of thought. Kerouac's technique and rapid production led novelist Truman Capote to remark, “That's not writing; it's typing.”
He died on October 21, 1969, in Florida, United States.
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