March 26, 2010

2010Charles Ryskamp, American art collector and curator (born 1928)^[†]

Charles Ryskamp was an American art director. He headed both the Frick Collection and the Pierpont Morgan Library, was a longtime professor at Princeton University, and collected drawings and prints. He was born in East Grand Rapids, Michigan. At the time of his death the Yale Center for British Art had selections from his collection featured in the exhibition "Varieties of Romantic Experience: Drawings from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp". This exhibition, which was to be up from February 4 until April 25, 2010, included works from Ryskamp's collection by Romantic period artists such as J. M. W. Turner, William Blake, David Wilkie and Caspar David Friedrich. His collection of Danish Golden Age drawings with works by among others Christen Købke and Johan Thomas Lundbye was one of the finest in private hands.

2010The South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan is torpedoed, killing 46 sailors. After an international investigation, the President of the United Nations Security Council blames North Korea.^[†]

ROKS Cheonan is the name of two South Korean Navy warships:ROKS Cheonan (PCC-772), a Pohang-class corvette from 1989 to 2010. ROKS Cheonan (FFG-826), a Daegu-class frigate commissioned in 2023.