EServer: Today In History: August 29

We know of 5 events of note in literature and the arts that occurred on August 29:

English philosopher John Locke was born on this day in 1632. He popularized the notion of the mind as a blank page (tabula rasa) at birth on which experience wrote information .
On the same day, the Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck was born. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911.
On this day in 1780, the French classicist painter Jean Ingres was born.
On this day in 1817, the first abolitionist newspaper The Philanthropist began publication in Mt Pleasant, Ohio.
The American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes was born on this day in 1809. He wrote "Old Ironsides" and other popular verse. His father's comic poem about "The Deacon's One-Hoss Shay" used to be so popular it was a standard of cultural literacy. His son was a U.S. Supreme Court justice.

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		We know of 5 events of note in literature and the arts that occurred on August 29: English philosopher John Locke was born on this day in 1632. He popularized the notion of the mind as a blank page (tabula rasa) at birth on which experience wrote information . On the same day, the Belgian writer Maurice Maeterlinck was born. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1911. On this day in 1780, the French classicist painter Jean Ingres was born. On this day in 1817, the first abolitionist newspaper The Philanthropist began publication in Mt Pleasant, Ohio. The American poet Oliver Wendell Holmes was born on this day in 1809. He wrote "Old Ironsides" and other popular verse. His father's comic poem about "The Deacon's One-Hoss Shay" used to be so popular it was a standard of cultural literacy. His son was a U.S. Supreme Court justice.