June 14 Dateline

Birthdays

1730 - Antonio Sacchini, Italian opera Composer (Enjoy this heartwarming work by Sacchini: "Te deum laudamus" performed by Singakademie Carinthia, with Michael Paumgarten, conducting.) 

1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, American abolitionist and author, famous for Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). She came from the Beecher family, a famous religious family, and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), which depicts the harsh conditions for enslaved African Americans. She stirred up abolitonist sentiment in the decade before the Civil War. (Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?  Uploaded by AmericanExperiencePBS. Accessed June 14, 2105.)  

1835 - Nicolas Rubinstein (born Nikolai Grigoryevich Rubinstein), Russian pianist, conductor, and composer. He was the younger brother of Anton Rubinstein and a close friend of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. (Nikolai Rubinstein - Mazurka. YouTube, uploaded by wwwkyrkancom. Accessed June 14, 2010.)

1909 - Burl Ives (born Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives), American singer and actor of stage, screen, radio and television. He is often remembered for his voice-over work as Sam the Snowman, narrator of the classic 1964 Christmas television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, which continues to air annually around Christmas.

1961 - Boy George (born George Alan O'Dowd), English Singer, Songwriter, DJ and Fashion Designer. He is the lead singer of the pop band Culture Club. During the 1980s, they recorded global hit songs such as "Karma Chameleon", "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" and "Time (Clock of the Heart)". George is known for his soulful voice and his androgynous appearance. He was part of the English New Romantic movement which emerged in the late 1970s to the early 1980s. Boy George received an Ivor Novello Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for Outstanding Services to British Music in 2015.

Lefties:
None known

 

 

More birthdays and historical events today, 14 June - On This Day.  

 

Historical Events

1777 - The Stars and Stripes is adopted as the flag of the United States of America.    

1789 - The 19 survivors of the HMAV Bounty mutiny, including Captain William Bligh, reach Timor after a nearly 4,000 mile (6,400 km) travel in an open boat. The remarkable seamanship of Capt. Bligh is given as the reason for their survival.

June 13 Dateline

Quote: "To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind." ~ Fanny Burney

Birthdays

1752 - Fanny Burney (born Frances Burney,) and later known as Madame d'Arblay, English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. Born in Lynn Regis, now King's Lynn, England, on 13 June 1752, to the musician Dr Charles Burney and his first wife, Esther Sleepe Burney, she was the third of her mother's six children. Of her four novels, the first, Evelina, was the most successful, and remains the most highly regarded. Most of her plays remained unperformed in her lifetime. She also wrote a memoir of her father and many letters and journals.

1865 - William Butler (WB) Yeats, Irish poet, Nobel Prize Laureate, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. (W.B. Yeats Reading His Own Verse. Uploaded by brychar66. Accessed June 13, 2009. (Note: Yeats made these recordings for the wireless in 1932, 1934 and the last on 28 October 1937 when he was 72. He died on January 28 1939. The photograph shows him sitting before the microphone in 1937.) William Butler Yeats Biography. Uploaded by Roberto Cano. Accessed June 13, 2017. Yeats: Ireland, and the Poetic Place. Considered his most popular poet. Uploaded by Her Aeolian Harp. Accessed June 13, 2013.)

1892 - Basil Rathbone, MC (born Philip St. John Basil Rathbone), English actor. He was a Shakespearean stage actor in UK, and went on to appear in more than 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers and, occasionally, horror films. His most famous role was that of Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films made between 1939 and 1946 and in a radio series. His later career included roles on Broadway, as well as self-ironic film and television work. He received a Tony Award in 1948 as Best Actor in a Play. He was nominated for two Academy Awards and was honoured with three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1893 - Dorothy L. Sayers,  English crime writer and poet. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, which remain popular to this day. However, Sayers herself considered her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy to be her best work. She is also known for her plays, literary criticism, and essays.

1953 - Tim Allen (born Timothy Alan Dick), American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Tim "The Toolman" Taylor on the ABC sitcom Home Improvement and Mike Baxter on the ABC/Fox sitcom Last Man Standing. Allen's other films include For Richer or Poorer, Jungle 2 Jungle, Galaxy Quest, Big Trouble, Christmas with the Kranks, The Shaggy Dog, Wild Hogs, Redbelt, and Crazy on the Outside.

1986 - Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen, American actresses, also known as the Olsen twins as a duo, are American fashion designers and former child actresses. The twins made their acting debut as infants playing Michelle Tanner on the television series Full House. At the age of six, Mary-Kate and Ashley began starring together in TV, film, and video projects, which continued to their teenage years. Through their company Dualstar, the Olsens joined the ranks of the wealthiest women in the entertainment industry at a young age.

Lefties:
Actor Tim Allen
Actress Mary-Kate Olsen

 

 

More birthdays and historical events today, 13 June - On This Day. 

Historical Events

1774 - Rhode Island, a U.S. state, bans the importation of slaves. It is the first British colony in North America to do so.

1852 - Robert Schumann's Manfred Overture is first performed in Weimar, Germany. (Schumann: Manfred-Ouvertüre ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Marek Janowski, conducting. Uploaded by hr-S Frankfurt Symphony Orchestra. Accessed June 13, 2018.)