He studied in London and then in Paris in the studio of Charles Gleyre. He painted landscapes almost exclusively. Oct 30, Gertrude Atherton, novelist, was born. The Japanese surrender was signed on his flagship, the USS Missouri. Pound met William Carlos Williams at the Univ. of Pennsylvania in 1907 and they remained friends and wrote many letters.
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The czar of Russia issued the October Manifesto, granting civil liberties and elections in an attempt to avert the burgeoning support for revolution. Oct 30, The Italians captured Vittorio Veneto and rout the Austro-Hungarian army. Oct 30, Mussolini sent his black shirts into Rome. The Fascist takeover was almost without bloodshed. In spite of pre-broadcast announcements that the production was fiction, about a million Americans readied their guns for battle, fled and prayed for deliverance from what they believed was a real threat.