A Super Comic Series postcard that was printed in Great Britain. The card was posted in Brighton using a 2d. stamp on Friday the 28th. August 1953. It was sent to:
Mrs. A. Nickler, 17, Westfield Road, Regents Park, Southampton.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"We shall be home some time tomorrow night. Don't forget the bacon and meat, also cat food. Love E & B."
Nippon TV
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 28th. August 1953, Nippon TV, Japan's first commercial television channel, was launched.
A Victory in Williamsport
Also on that day, in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, United States, the 1953 Little League World Series baseball championship for juniors was won by the team from Birmingham, Alabama.
Peter Kalmus (Artist)
The 28th. August 1953 also marked the birth in Piešťany, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic (now Slovakia) of Peter Kalmus.
Peter is a Slovak self-taught visual artist and activist.
-- Peter Kalmus - The Early Years
Peter Kalmus was born to a German Jewish father named Wolfgang Hans Hartman Kalmus and a Slovak Lutheran mother Mária (née Češeková).
Soon after his birth, Peter's parents divorced, and his father returned to Germany. Despite the distance, Kalmus and his father reconnected during the Prague Spring, and remain very close to this day.
-- Peter Kalmus' Life During Communism
From early childhood, Kalmus has lived in Košice. Since the 1970's, he was in close contact with the Prague underground cultural scene. His own art mainly consists of painting, photography and performance art (commonly taking the form of public, non-violent protest).
In 1989, he co-founded the Košice cell of the Civic Forum party.
On the 21st. November 1989 he organized the first anti-regime demonstration in Košice to commemorate the killing of a local student, Michal Hamrák, by Soviet forces during the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.
-- Peter Kalmus' Life After 1989
After the Postoj, Kalmus participated in many art exhibitions in Slovakia and abroad.
Kalmus considers creating art to be his lifestyle. His work reflects the public obsession with consumerism as well as politics, death, religion, and sports.
He has several long-running projects, including the cycles Partitúry (Scores) and Korózne grafiky (Corrosive Prints).
Peter's most famous long-term project has consisted of wrapping a wire around at least one stone every day between 1998 and 2022, representing the 70,000 Jews deported from Slovakia by the fascist Slovak Republic during World War II.
Peter Kalmus' Holocaust monument, consisting of four glass tubes filled with the wire-wrapped stones, was first unveiled in 2016 by the President of Slovakia Andrej Kiska. It is located in a renovated synagogue in the town of Lučenec.
-- Peter Kalmus' Activism
Kalmus has organized several public protests which gained media attention. In March 2011 he disrupted the unveiling of a bust of a fascist World War II era politician János Esterházy by throwing toilet paper at the bust.
In February 2015 in the village of Krajná Bystrá, the birthplace of high-profile communist functionary Vasiľ Biľak, Kalmus together with a fellow artist Ľuboš Lorenz spilled red paint over a bust of Biľak, previously installed there by the Communist Party of Slovakia.
In August 2016 he removed the Hammer and Sickle symbol from a Red Army memorial in Košice. Public reactions to Kalmus doing this have been mixed.
The liberal Denník N praised the removal of communist symbols from the memorial, while the conservative website Postoj criticized it as a meaningless publicity stunt, disrespectful to the memory of World War II victims.
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