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On this day December 18-24, 2022 (week 51)
December 18, 2022 - December 24, 2022 - Graphics show birthdays and anniversaries for each day of the week. This week features the architect Richard Rogers, Chile’s youngest president Gabriel Boric, the folk stories of the Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the iconic “Earthrise” photograph, the destruction of the Library of Alexandria, the Soviet aircraft designer Andrei Tupolev and Holywood star Ava Gardner.
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December 18, 2021: Richard Rogers, noted for his modernist and functionalist designs in high-tech architecture, including the Pompidou Centre in Paris, died at age 88
December 19, 2021: Former activist Gabriel Boric was elected as Chile’s youngest president, pledging to install a welfare state in one of the world’s most unequal countries
December 20, 1812: Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their first book of classic German folk tales, including Little Red Riding Hood, and Snow White
December 21, 1968: Apollo 8 was launched on the first manned flight around the moon, on which the astronauts captured the iconic “Earthrise” photograph
December 22, 640: The Saracen caliph Omar is reputed to have ordered the destruction of the famous Library of Alexandria following the Muslim conquest of Egypt
December 23, 1972: Andrei Tupolev, Soviet aircraft designer, died. He designed both military and commercial aircraft and Russian aircraft today still bear his name
December 24, 1922: Sultry Hollywood star Ava Gardner, whose best known films include The Killers (1946), Mogambo (1953), and Bhowani Junction (1956), was born