English-American lieutenant and author (born 1887)

Charles Nordhoff

Charles Bernard Nordhoff was an American novelist and traveler, born in England. Nordhoff is perhaps best known for The Bounty Trilogy, three historical novels he wrote with James Norman Hall: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932), Men Against the Sea (1934) and Pitcairn's Island (1934). During World War I, he served as a driver in the Ambulance Corps as well as an aviator in both the French Air Force's Lafayette Flying Corps and the United States Army Air Service, reaching the rank of lieutenant. After the war, Nordhoff spent much of his life on the island of Tahiti, where he and Hall wrote a number of successful adventure books, many adapted for film.

Born

1887

February 1

Died

1947

Era

1880s

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Charles, in brief

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1887 Born
1947 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

1327 The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer.
1411 The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia).
1662 The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege.
1713 The Kalabalik or Skirmish at Bender results from the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.

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The world in 1947

When Charles departed

april 1 The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
april 15 Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
april 16 An explosion on board a freighter in port causes Texas City in the state of Texas, United States, to catch fire, killing almost 600 people.
april 16 Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on February 1

Claude François 1939–1978 Egyptian-French singer-songwriter and dancer (died 1978) Denise Robins 1897–1985 English journalist and author (died 1985) Ekaterina Maximova 1939–2009 Russian ballerina and actress (born 1939) Francesco Maria Veracini 1690–1768 Italian violinist and composer (died 1768) G. Stanley Hall 1844–1924 American psychologist and academic (born 1844) Hassan al-Turabi 1932–2016 Sudanese activist and politician (died 2016) James P. Johnson 1894–1955 American pianist and composer (died 1955) Johannes Trithemius 1462–1516 German cryptographer and historian (born 1462) Mark Recchi 1968– Canadian ice hockey player and coach

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1887

Albert M. Greenfield 1887– Ukrainian-American businessman and philanthropist (died 1967) Alfred Lee Loomis 1887– American physicist and philanthropist (died 1975) Alvin C. York 1887–1964 American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1964) Beatrice Kerr 1887– Australian swimmer and diver (died 1971) C. R. M. F. Cruttwell 1887–1941 English historian (born 1887) Charles I of Austria (died 1922) 1887– Chico Marx 1887–1961 American actor (died 1961) Eubie Blake 1887–1983 American pianist and composer (born 1887) Georgia O'Keeffe 1887–1986 American painter (born 1887)

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