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Date: 30 December 1865
Rudyard Kipling Birthday, Date of Birth
Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( RUD-yərd; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936) was an English journalist, novelist, poet and short-story writer. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
Kipling's works of fiction include the Jungle Book duology (The Jungle Book, 1894; The Second Jungle Book, 1895), Kim (1901), the Just So Stories (1902) and many short stories, including "The Man Who Would Be King" (1888). His poems include "Mandalay" (1890), "Gunga Din" (1890), "The Gods of the Copybook Headings" (1919), "The White Man's Burden" (1899) and "If—" (1910). He is seen as an innovator in the art of the short story. His children's books are classics; one critic noted "a versatile and luminous narrative gift".
Kipling in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was among the United Kingdom's most popular writers. Henry James said "Kipling strikes me personally as the most complete man of genius, as distinct from fine intelligence, that I have ever known." In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, as the first writer to receive the prize, and at 41, its youngest recipient to date. He was also sounded out for the British Poet Laureateship and several times for a knighthood, but declined both. Following his death in 1936, his ashes were interred at Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey.
Kipling's subsequent reputation has changed with the political and social climate of the age. The contrasting views of him continued for much of the 20th century. The literary critic Douglas Kerr wrote that Kipling "is still an author who can inspire passionate disagreement and his place in literary and cultural history is far from settled. But as the age of the European empires recedes, he is recognised as an incomparable, if controversial, interpreter of how empire was experienced. That, and an increasing recognition of his extraordinary narrative gifts, make him a force to be reckoned with."
Read more...- Birthday, Date of Birth
- Saturday, December 30, 1865
- Place of Birth
- Mumbai
- Age
- 160
- Star Sign
- ♑
The December 30, 1865 was a Saturday under the star sign of ♑. It was the 363 day of the year. President of the United States was Andrew Johnson.
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30th of December 1865 News
News as it appeared on the front page of the New York Times on December 30, 1865
Effect of the President's Message Abroad Steady Advance in Our National Securities.
Date: 30 December 1865
Securities Abroad; the President's Message
CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS IN THE AUSTRIAN EMPIRE. Less attention than the subject merits is given to the steady and sincere efforts that have of late been made by the Emperor of Austria to reconcile Hungary to the empire by practical reforms. By the news from Europe today, we learn that the Emperor opened the Hungarian Diet in person,...
Date: 30 December 1865
Austria, Constitutional Reforms in
AMERICAN TOPICS.; The President's Message in England. ADMISSIONS AND EXCUSES. ENGLAND'S SELFISH POLICY. THE PRESIDENT AND GREAT BRITAIN.
Date: 30 December 1865
London Star on the President's Message; London Times on President Johnson's Message; London Daily News on the President's Message
EVENTS IN 1865.; Chronicle of Noteworthy Occurrences for the Year. CLOSE OF THE WAR FOR THE UNION Miscellaneous Events at Home and Abroad.
Date: 30 December 1865
GENERAL CITY NEWS.; THE DELTA PSI FRATERNITY. A WOMAN SHOT BY A POLICEMAN. JUVENILE STABBING AFFRAY. FATAL ACCIDENT. THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE WAR. ADDRESS BY HON. SCHUYLER COLFAX. PERSONAL.
Date: 30 December 1865