September 7 Dateline

Birthdays

1533 - Queen Elizabeth I of England, daughter to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She is imprisoned while her sister Mary ruled, however, came to power in 1558 on Mary's death without heirs. The fact that neither sister had children is sometimes seen as evidence that their father Henry may have had syphilis, which is deemed could lead to barren children. Elizabeth I formally ratified the Church of England in 1563, a point in time when English Catholics are persecuted with at almost as much fervour as Mary previously persecuted the Protestants before, in her reign.

1909 - Elia Kazan, Film Director & Producer, famous for "On the Waterfront," and "A Streetcar Named Desire," amongst other classic films. (Wikipedia) 

1913 - Sir John Anthony Quayle, CBE, British Actor and Theatre Director. He was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role as Thomas Wolsey in the film Anne of the Thousand Days, and played important roles in major studio productions as The Guns of Navarone, Lawrence of Arabia, The Fall of the Roman Empire, Operation Crossbow, QB VII, and The Eagle Has Landed. Quayle was knighted in the 1985. 

1921 - Arthur Ferrante, American duo-pianist with Louis Teicher (Ferrante & Teicher - Greatest Love Themes of the 20th Century (1973) full vinyl albums)

1923 - Peter Lawford (born Peter Sydney Ernest Lawford), English-American Actor, Producer, and Socialite, who lived in the United States throughout his adult life. He was a member of the "Rat Pack" and the brother-in-law of President John F. Kennedy and senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy.

1932 - Sir Paul Getty, Jr., KBE (born Eugene Paul Getty), British Philanthropist and Book Collector. He was the third of five sons born to Jean Paul Getty Sr., one of the richest men in the world at the time, and his wife, Ann Rork. The Getty family's wealth was the result of the oil business founded by George Franklin Getty. One of his sons, Mark Getty, co-founded the Visual Media Company Getty Images.

1936 - Buddy Holly (born Charles Hardin Holley), American Musician and Singer-Songwriter who was a central and pioneering figure of mid-1950s rock and roll. His style was influenced by gospel music, country music, and rhythm and blues acts, which he performed in Lubbock with his friends from high school.

1949 -  Gloria Gaynor, American Singer, best known for the disco era hits "I Will Survive" (Hot 100 number 1, 1979), "Never Can Say Goodbye" (Hot 100 number 9, 1974) and "Let Me Know (I Have a Right)" (Hot 100 number 42, 1980).

1969 - Rudy Galindo (Val Joe "Rudy" Galindo), American figure skater who competed in both single skating and pair skating. As a single skater, he is the 1996 U.S. national champion, 1987 World Junior Champion, and 1996 World Bronze medalist. As a pairs skater, he competed with Kristi Yamaguchi and was the 1988 World Junior Champion and the 1989 and 1990 U.S. National Champion. He is the first openly gay skating champion in the United States, though US, World and Olympic champion Brian Boitano came out long after his career was over.

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Figure skater Rudy Galindo
Actor Peter Lawford

 

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Historical Events

1870 - James Whitcomb Riley's first published poem, "The Same Old Story Told Again," appears in the Greenfield (Indiana) Commercial.

1927 - The first fully electronic television system is done by American inventor Philo Taylor Farnsworth. He was 21 at the time but actually came up with the idea at 14.

September 6 Dateline

Birthdays

1766 - John Dalton, FRS, (born Sept 5 or 6), English chemist, physicist, and meteorologist. He is best known for introducing the atomic theory into chemistry, and for his research into color blindness, sometimes referred to as Daltonism, in his honour. (Dalton's Atomic Theory. Uploaded by ChemSurvival. Accessed September 6, 2017.)

1836 - John Atkinson Grimshaw, Victorian-era artist, known for his city night-scenes and landscapes. Today, he is considered one of the great painters of the Victorian era, as well as one of the best and most accomplished nightscape and townscape artists of all time. His early paintings were signed "JAG", "J. A. Grimshaw", or "John Atkinson Grimshaw", though he finally settled on "Atkinson Grimshaw". (John A. Grimshaw's Paintings. YouTube, uploaded by genkou asanuma. J. Grimshaw Collection, uploaded by Sofie A. Accessed September 6, 2020.)

1877 - Charles Joseph "Buddy" Bolden, African American cornetist who was regarded by contemporaries as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of ragtime music, or "jass", which later came to be known as "jazz". Learn About the Inventor of Jazz with Wynton Marsalis. YouTube, uploaded by Amanpour and Company. Accessed September 6, 2022.)

 

1886 - Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, English poet, writer, and soldier, decorated for bravery on the Western Front. He became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry described the horrors of the trenches and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those in his view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his "Soldier's Declaration" of 1917, culminating in his admission to a military psychiatric hospital; this resulted in his forming a friendship with Wilfred Owen, who was greatly influenced by him. Sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography, known as the "Sherston trilogy".

1892 - Sir Edward Victor Appleton GBE KCB FRS, English physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate and pioneer in radiophysics. He studied, and was also employed as a lab technician, at Bradford College from 1909 to 1911. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his seminal work proving the existence of the ionosphere during experiments carried out in 1924.

1943 - Richard J. Roberts, FRS, British biochemist, molecular biologist, and Nobel Laureate. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing.

1973 - Gregory Rusedski, British and Canadian former professional tennis player. He was the British No. 1 in 1997, 1999 and 2006, and reached the ATP ranking of world No. 4 for periods from 6-12 October 1997, and from 25 May to 21 June, 1998.

1974 - Tim Henman, OBE (born Timothy Henry Henman), British retired professional tennis player. A serve-and-volley style of tennis, he was the first male player from the UK since Roger Taylor in the 1970s to reach the semi-finals of the Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship. He never reached the finals of any Grand Slam but reached six Grand Slam semi-finals and won 15 career ATP titles (11 in singles and four in doubles). He was ranked British number 1 in 1996, and from 1999 to 2005, from which point he was succeeded by Andy Murray.

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From the brilliant and imaginative work of John Atkinson Grimshaw, composer Frederick Delius created a heart-meltingly beautiful music, "The Walk to the Paradise Garden," a heart-warming music painting in scene 5 and 6 of his opera A Village Romeo and Juliet.

Historical Events

1620 - The Pilgrims, a group of Puritans seeking religious freedom, sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower, to settle in North America. A Puritanical religious group, they had suffered in England and were looking for a place they could practise their faith. The day before they had set out in two ships, the Speedwell and Mayflower. The Speedwell leaked and had to dock in Devon at Plymouth. It's from Plymouth that the Mayflower finally leaves, landing on the east coast of North America. They seek out a suitable place to start a colony ending up in a location they also named Plymouth, in Massachusetts.

1651 - Charles II spends the night in an oak tree to avoid Cromwell's forces after losing the Battle of Worcester. After Cromwell's death in 1658, Charles II is invited to take the throne in the Restoration, 1660, in time for bubonic plague and the Great Fire of London.