EServer: Today In History: July 2

We know of 4 events of note in literature and the arts that occurred on July 2:

On this day in 1809, the ship carrying Lord Byron on his first tour of Europe sailed from Falmouth. He traveled through the Iberian and Balkan Peninsulas, as well as the Levant, He was gone for two years.
On this day in 1961 at his home in Ketchum, Idaho, American author Ernest Hemingway died of his own hand. He was recuperating from treatment at the Mayo Clinic for depression. He donned a kimono, called a friend, identifying himself as Dr. Hemmingstein (the doctor was a reference to his father, also a suicide, Hemmingstein a derivative of Hemingway's own anti-Semitism), and lodged a shotgun in his mouth. His widow first tried to portray the event as a gun-cleaning accident, but the truth came out.
The Father of Romanticism, Jean-Jacques Rousseau died on this day in 1778. To Rousseau we owe the concept of the "noble savage," that person (like Tarzan) who is free of the corruption of civilization who will make the morally superior choice. His Social Contract began with the sentence, "Man is born free, and everywhere else he is is in chains."
The German philosophical novelist Herman Hesse was born on this day in 1877. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946. His novels went through a stage of high popularity in the Counterculture in the late '60s.

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		We know of 4 events of note in literature and the arts that occurred on July 2: On this day in 1809, the ship carrying Lord Byron on his first tour of Europe sailed from Falmouth. He traveled through the Iberian and Balkan Peninsulas, as well as the Levant, He was gone for two years. On this day in 1961 at his home in Ketchum, Idaho, American author Ernest Hemingway died of his own hand. He was recuperating from treatment at the Mayo Clinic for depression. He donned a kimono, called a friend, identifying himself as Dr. Hemmingstein (the doctor was a reference to his father, also a suicide, Hemmingstein a derivative of Hemingway's own anti-Semitism), and lodged a shotgun in his mouth. His widow first tried to portray the event as a gun-cleaning accident, but the truth came out. The Father of Romanticism, Jean-Jacques Rousseau died on this day in 1778. To Rousseau we owe the concept of the "noble savage," that person (like Tarzan) who is free of the corruption of civilization who will make the morally superior choice. His Social Contract began with the sentence, "Man is born free, and everywhere else he is is in chains." The German philosophical novelist Herman Hesse was born on this day in 1877. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1946. His novels went through a stage of high popularity in the Counterculture in the late '60s.