How Engels celebrated his 70th birthday on 28th November 1890
Engels was born in Bremen on 28th November 1820 but by 1890, when he turned 70, he was living in Regents Park Rd, having retired a while since from his job in the family firm in Manchester.
Writing to Laura Lafargue on 1st December 1890 he noted that he had received numerous birthday messages and in the evening of 28th November had celebrated with a number of comrades mainly from the German socialist movement:
‘we kept it up till half past three in the morning, and drank besides claret, 16 bottles of champagne- the morning we had 12 dozen oysters…One can celebrate one’s 70th birthday only once.
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