1889 – Adolf Hitler , Austrian-German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1945) 'Mein Kampf' 我的奮鬥 點滴 London Review of Books ‘He didn’t have a Jewish grandfather, he didn’t spend his childhood in poverty, his father didn’t beat him more than most European fathers of the day belted their sons, he wasn’t bipolar, he didn’t have only one ball or syphilis, he wasn’t exceptionally anti-Semitic before he settled in Munich’ – Ascherson on Hitler, born # otd in 1889, from last year. LRB · Neal Ascherson · Hitler as a Human He did have friends, most of them married couples where the wife would mother Adolf, feed him cream cakes and be rewarded with displays of ‘Austrian charm’. LRB.CO.UK 1893 – Joan Miró , Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1983) BBC Culture Joan Miró was born on this day in 1893. Last year we took a tour of the space where the great pain...