September 3 Dateline

Birthdays

1695 - Pietro Locatelli, Italian Baroque Composer and Violinist. Not much is known about his childhood. In his early youth he was the third violinist and held the title of virtuoso in the cappella musicale (musical establishment) of the church of Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo. In autumn 1711 Locatelli went to Rome to seek greater recognition.

1849 - Sarah Orne Jewett, American novelist, short story writer and poet, one of New England's foremost regional writers.

1899 - Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet, OM, AK, KBE, FRS, FAA, FRSNZ, Australian biologist and Nobel Laureate, usually known as Macfarlane or Mac Burnet, was a virologist best known for his contributions to immunology. He won a Nobel Prize in 1960 for predicting acquired immune tolerance and was best known for developing the theory of clonal selection.

1938 - Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist and Nobel Laureate. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001, shared a half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second half of the prize went to K. Barry Sharpless for his study in chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions.

1965 - Charlie Sheen (Carlos Irwin Estévez), American actor. He has appeared in films such as Platoon, Wall Street, Young Guns, The Rookie, The Three Musketeers, and The Arrival.  When Sheen replaced Michael J. Fox as the star of ABC's Spin City, his portrayal of Charlie Crawford earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. He then starred as Charlie Harper on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men, for which he received multiple Golden Globe and Primetime Emmy nominations, and as Dr. Charles "Charlie" Goodson on the FX series Anger Management.  In 2010, Sheen was the highest-paid actor on television, earning US$1.8 million per episode of Two and a Half Men.

 

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Pietro Antonio Locatelli's Violin Concertos, with Igor Ruhadze (violin) and Ensemble Violini Capricciosi  YouTube, uploaded by Brilliant Classics. Accessed September 3, 2023. 

Historical Events

1609 - Henry Hudson, an English explorer, sailing for the Dutch Kingdom, discovers the island of Manhattan. Later the Dutch claim the area and set up the colony of New Amsterdam, now New York.  

 

1783 - The American War of Independence ends after eight years of fighting with the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the U.S., Spain, France, and Great Britain, and American independence is recognised by the British.

September 2 Dateline

Birthdays

1838 - Queen Liliuokalani, Last Monarch and only queen regnant of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

1853 - Wilhelm Ostwald, Baltic chemist, philosopher and Nobel Laureate. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1909 for his work on catalysis, chemical equilibria and reaction velocities.

1877 - Frederick Soddy, FRS, chemist and Nobel Laureate, English radiochemist who explained, with Ernest Rutherford, that radioactivity is due to the transmutation of elements, now known to involve nuclear reactions. He also proved the existence of isotopes of certain radioactive elements.

1923 - Rene Thom, French mathematician, awarded the fields Medal in 1958. He made his reputation as a topologist, moving on to aspects of what would be called singularity theory. He became world-famous among the wider academic community and the educated general public for his work as founder of catastrophe theory (later developed by Erik Christopher Zeeman).

1948 - Sharon Christa McAuliffe, American teacher and astronaut from Concord, New Hampshire, and one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

1964 - Keanu Charles Reeves, Canadian actor. He had his breakthrough role in the science fiction comedy Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. He gained praise for playing a hustler in My Own Private Idaho, and established himself as an action hero with leading roles in Point Break and Speed. Greater stardom came for playing Neo in the science fiction series The Matrix. He played John Constantine in Constantine and starred in the romantic drama The Lake House, the science fiction thriller The Day the Earth Stood Still, and the crime thriller Street Kings.  Reeves has directed the film Man of Tai Chi. 

  

1966 - Salma Hayek Pinault (born Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez), Mexican and American film actress and producer. Hayek's breakthrough role came in the 2002 biographical film Frida, a film which she co-produced and starred in as Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. For her performance, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first Mexican actress nominated in that category, in addition to nominations for the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, and British Academy Film Award for Best Actress. In 2017, she was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for her role in Beatriz at Dinner.

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Actor Keanu Reeves

 

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Historical Events

1666 - The Great Fire Of London breaks our and burns for three days that destroys 10,000 buildings including the St. Paul's Cathedral.Despite having no organised fire service, only nine people died and it ended the bubonic plague outbreak of 1665. Many of the most important commissions to rebuild go to Christopher Wren, the greatest architect that time. 

1901 - Then U.S. Vice-President Theodore Roosevelt utters the phrase: "Speak softly and carry a big stick," that describes his idea of diplomatic negotiations backed with the threat of military force. This becomes known as the "big stick " diplomacy.