The January 21 this year we are celebrating his ends Centennial " pharaoh's court " English music magazine libretto by Guillermo Perrin and Miguel de Palacios, and Vicente teacher score Lleó , with musical numbers of unquestionable artistic and aesthetic quality.
Julia Fons
Inspired by the French operetta "Madame Putiphar ", premiered in Madrid's Teatro Eslava by singers and actors greatly appreciated by the public at the time: Julia Fons, Juanita Manso, Ramón Peña, Antonio González and Carmen Andrew, visiting Spain for several years as a famous comic book.
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And later this month, the January 29, marked the 150 birthday of Anton Chekhov , doctor, writer and Russian playwright considered the most prominent representative of the realist school in Russia.
His works include "The Seagull, Uncle Vanya," "The Three Sisters" or "garden Cherry, also writing essays and novels. His mastery of the short story makes it one of the most important writers of short stories in history.
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The March 14, 2010, also met a sad anniversary. Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente , one of the most important natural history, left us shocked 30 years ago with his tragic death. 
"Fauna", "Wildlife," "Blue Planet" or "Man and Earth" are an important part of his valuable legacy. Programs that soon crossed the borders of our country, projecting in virtually all televisions in the world, from Japanese to Polish, and gaining a worldwide audience of 700 million viewers. Thanks, Felix.
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The Gran Via in Madrid marked the April 4 its centenary . It took 21 years of work to complete the 1,300-meter path has always been, without doubt, a landmark in the history of the capital.
A century and since Alfonso XIII would start the project of converting the center into a showcase of shops and a promenade for citizens and visitors.
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The May 19, 2010 also be met 75 years the death of Lawrence of Arabia , military, British archaeologist and writer.
Born in Wales in 1888, Thomas Edward Lawrence graduated as a historian at the University of Oxford, leaning over time in archeology and the study of Arab countries. The rest is history.
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On the music front, we celebrated the May 29 the 150 birth anniversary of Isaac Albéniz, one of the most important English composers. child prodigy on the piano, which gave its first public concert at age four, he left us a masterpiece piano suite Iberia.
Other pieces for piano, Rhapsody English and English Suite and operas like magic opal and complete Pepita Jiménez great musical work.
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And June 8 commemorated the bicentenary of Robert Schumann, German composer and one of the leading exponents of Romantic music movement of the nineteenth century.
Schumann studied piano with Friedrich Wiecz and later married his daughter, Clara Josephine , pianist since she was eight and a key to give know many of the compositions of her husband.
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This year 2010 also has been met centenary of the birth of Jacques Cousteau , one of the most important oceanographers history. Born June 11, 1910, began their expeditions in 1950, after the end of World War II, eventually building the ship Calypso , plus icon in front of his fruitful work.
Jacques Cousteau in 1997 left us sadly. For four decades, he and his team worked on the production of more than 70 documentaries. Never before have we enjoyed so close to the beautiful underwater world. Thanks, Jacques.
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And June 13 also marks one hundred years the birth of Gonzalo Torrente Ballester . Born in El Ferrol (La Coruña), studied Philosophy and Letters and a Bachelor of Historical Sciences at the University of Santiago, also working on teaching, criticism, fiction and drama production.
Torrente Ballester left us in 1999. Also titles like "The joys and shadows", "La saga / drain JB", "Maybe the wind will take us to infinity", "Filomeno, to my regret," "Chronicle of King stunned" or "Domenica."
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We remembered also to the French writer Françoise Sagan the J 21, joined in 75 anniversary of his birth. With his first novel, " Bonjour tristesse " Françoise got the coveted Prix des Critiques .
With his second book, "Un certain sourire", written two years later, confirmed the expectations that had already pointed out in the first. Next came several other novels and plays.
Sagan left us in 2004. We also gave a wonderful reading through his writings.
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The September 15, 2010 marked the 120 birthday of British writer Agatha Christie , one of the greatest crime and mystery writers of world literature, creative also of great people dedicated to the world of mystery, like Miss Marple or Hercule Poirot .
Agatha Christie left us in 1976. Today it remains one of the world's most translated authors. We determined the sales of his books in more than four billion copies translated into more than one hundred languages \u200b\u200baround the world.
"Ten Little Indians," "Murder on the Orient Express", "Death on the Nile", "Witness for the Prosecution", "Work Hercules, "" Murder at the Vicarage "," Marriage of hounds "... Enough, right?
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The wonderful city of New York saw the birth of the October 28, 1940 at Susan Harris, a writer in the world brighter future television who studied English Literature at the University of New York itself.
Throughout his successful career in television, Susan has given us shows like "Maude," "Mess," "Benson", "Golden Girls," "Nurses", "Empty Nest" or "hotel gold. " Thank you, Susan, for sharing your great talent. And a very happy 70.
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The October 30, 2010 marked the centenary the birth of the English poet Miguel Hernández . Born in Orihuela (Alicante), writer manifested in his works a deep sense of tragedy and great sensitivity.
The poetry of Miguel Hernandez, characterized by an intense lyricism, deals mainly with themes of love, death, war and injustice. He left us 31 years of age but with us is his work, immortal, contained in his collection of poems Perito en lunas, sonnets classic cut that does not stop Ray or series of poems, dedicated his wife, Ballad songbook and absences.
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And yesterday, December 10, marked the 180 birthday of Emily Dickinson , important American poet.
N acid in a family severely religious Emily left the company after 30 years, living the rest of his life as a recluse and keeping only contact friends through letters enigmatic. From then until his death, wrote a highly original poetry.
Though in life he published only seven poems after his death his papers were found among 2,000 poems, some of which only were fragments. In 1890 he edited the first selection of his works, "Poems", which had great popular success.
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And we end this year with a celebration tour very special. The 75 anniversary of Monopoly, board game Hasbro who was born in Massachusetts in 1935 .
Available 111 countries in the world and translated into 43 languages \u200b\u200b , Monopoly has sold over its history, 275 million units . Congratulations.
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