...in 1865, Abraham Lincoln died from the wound inflicted by a bullet fired into his head by John Wilkes Booth the night before. ...in 1912…Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. ...in 1947, at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. ...in 1990…Actress Greta Garbo died in New York City. ...in 2013…three people were killed and hundreds injured in a double bombing at the Boston Marathon.
Wow...one of my favorite people. Was at the Met last year...and he came to mind. So I asked if they had any Leonardo's. NOT A ONE! Not even a piece of his many note papers.
He's buried in Amboise, not far from where I live. His house is open to the public, maybe you've already visited it. Truly a great man.
The ultimate Renaissance man, Diablo, and truly a GREAT man. Amboise...is in France. I never realized he is buried in France...not Italy. I have not visited. One of the other men whom I hold in great esteem is Albert Einstein. My wife and I have dinner in Princeton often during the summers...and I tend to take a walk past his house. Many pictures of him on the porch there. It is now privately owned.
That great year of 1905, three papers each of which might have brought the Nobel prize: relativity, brownian motion which proved the atom, and the photoelectric effect which laid the basis for quantum mechanics. Also a great man.