English author (died 1993)

Eleanor Hibbert

Eleanor Alice Hibbert was an English writer of historical romances. She was a prolific writer who published several books a year in different literary genres, each genre under a different pen name: Jean Plaidy for fictionalized history of European royalty and the three volumes of her history of the Spanish Inquisition, Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multi-generational family saga. She also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under pseudonyms Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, and Ellalice Tate.

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1906

September 1

Died

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1900s

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-396 The Temple of Juno Regina (Aventine) is dedicated in Rome by Marcus Furius Camillus.
1145 The main altar of Lund Cathedral, at the time the seat of the archiepiscopal see of all the Nordic countries, is consecrated.
1173 The widow Stamira sacrifices herself in order to raise the siege of Ancona by the forces of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa.
1355 King Tvrtko I of Bosnia writes In castro nostro Vizoka vocatum from the Old town of Visoki.

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The world in 1906

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april 14 The first meeting of the Azusa Street Revival, which will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement, is held in Los Angeles.
april 18 The 7.9 Mw earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California, killing more than 3,000 people, making one of the worst natural disasters in American history.
april 22 The 1906 Intercalated Games open in Athens.
april 27 The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.

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Bernie Wagenblast 1956– transportation journalist, founder of Transportation Communications Newsletter Burn Gorman 1974– American-born English actor and musician Cecil Parkinson 1931–2016 English politician (born 1931) E. Herbert Norman 1909–1957 Canadian historian and diplomat (born 1909) Henri Bourassa 1868–1952 Canadian publisher and politician (born 1868) Hilda Rix Nicholas 1884–1961 Australian artist (born 1884) Innokenty Annensky 1855– Russian poet and critic (died 1909) Richard Farnsworth 1920–2000 American actor and stuntman (born 1920) Walter Reuther 1907–1970 American union leader (born 1907)

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Adolf Eichmann 1906–1962 a German Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (born 1906) Bea Benaderet 1906–1968 Turkish-Irish-American television, radio, and voice actress (died 1968) Buddhadasa 1906– Thai monk and philosopher (died 1993) Chandra Shekhar Azad 1906–1931 Indian revolutionary (born 1906) Clifford Odets 1906–1963 American director, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1906) Constance Stokes 1906–1991 Australian painter (died 1991) Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906–1945 German pastor and theologian (born 1906) Endre Kabos 1906– Hungarian fencer (died 1944) Faisal of Saudi Arabia 1906–1975 Saudi Arabian king (died 1975)

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