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This Month Seoul in Breif Specific Maps of Seoul Where to Stay What to Eat What to Do What to See What to Buy What to Know  Home >> This Day in History This Day in History [ 31-12-2003 ] Artist-Matisse Henri was born (31st December 1869) "Henri Matisse was born in 1869, the year the Cutty Sark was launched. The year he died, 1954, the first hydrogen bomb exploded at Bikini Atoll. Not only did he live on, literally, from one world into another; he lived through some of the most traumatic political events in recorded history, the worst wars, the greatest slaughters, the most demented rivalries of ideology, without, it seems, turning a hair. Matisse never made a didactic painting or signed a manifesto, and there is scarcely one reference to a political event - let alone an expression of political opinion - to be found anywhere in his writings Total Article : 454 (21/38) [ 01-01-2004 ] New Year's Day (1st January 45BC) [ 01-01-2004 ] Euro was released (1st January 2002) ¢º [ 31-12-2003 ] Artist-Matisse Henri was born (31st December 1869) [ 31-12-2003 ] Edison Demonstrates Incandescent Light( 31st December 1879) [ 30-12-2003 ] Yun Dongju, poet, was born (30th December 1917) [ 30-12-2003 ] Marcos Inaugurated (30th December 1965) [ 29-12-2003 ] Death of Rilke, German poet ( 29th December 1926) [ 29-12-2003 ] Edison Patents Wireless Radio (29th December 1891) [ 28-12-2003 ] The decision about trusteeship(28th December 1945) [ 28-12-2003 ] Worst European Earthquake (28th December 1908) [ 27-12-2003 ] Astromoner Kepler born (27th December 1571) [ 27-12-2003 ] Peter Pan Opens In London (27th December 1904) [Prev. 10][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][Next 10] Subject Comment   Copyright ¨Ï 2001 What's On Communications Inc. All rights reserved. Write to Us post@whatsonkorea.com.