October 19 Dateline

Birthdays

1916 - Jean Dausset (Jean-Baptiste-Gabriel-Joachim Dausset), French immunologist. He received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980 along with Baruj Benacerraf and George Davis Snell for their discovery and characterisation of the genes making the major histocompatibility complex. Using the money from his Nobel Prize and a grant from the French Television, Dausset founded the Human Polymorphism Study Center (CEPH) in 1984, which was later renamed the Foundation Jean Dausset-CEPH in his honour. He married Rose Mayoral in 1963, with whom he had two children, Henri and Irène. 

 

 1931 - John Le Carre (David John Moore Cornwell), better known by his pen name John le Carré, British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). His third novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), became an international best-seller and remains one of his best-known works. Following the success of this novel, he left MI6 to become a full-time author. His books include The Looking Glass War, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Smiley's People, The Little Drummer Girl, The Night Manager, The Tailor of Panama, The Constant Gardener, A Most Wanted Man and Our Kind of Traitor,  all of which have been adapted for film or television. 

 
1932 - Robert Reed (born John Robert Rietz Jr.), American actor. He played Kenneth Preston on the legal drama The Defenders from 1961 to 1965 alongside E. G. Marshall, and is best known for his role as the father Mike Brady, opposite Florence Henderson's role as Carol Brady, on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch, which aired from 1969 to 1974. He later reprised his role of Mike Brady on several of the reunion programs. In 1976, he earned two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his guest-starring role in a two-part episode of Medical Center and for his work on the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man. The following year, Reed earned a third Emmy nomination for his role in the miniseries Roots.

Lefties:
None known

 

More birthdays and historical events, October 19 - On This Day

 

Historical Events

1781 - The American Revolutionary War ends as Major General Lord Charles Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia.

1845 - Richard Wagner's opera Tannhauser is first performed, in Dresden.

1901 - Sir Edward Elgar's amazing Pomp and Circumstance Marches (the first two) - "land of hope and glory" - one  that  have their first performances, in Liverpool.

1922 - Modest Mussoorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, orchestrated by Maurice Ravel from the original piano suite, is first performed,in Paris, Serge Koussevitzky conducting. 

1943 - Streptomysin, used as an antibiotic for tuberculosis, is isolated by Selman A Waksman at Rutgers University in New Jersey.

1987 - Dubbed "Black Monday", the Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 22.6 percent in the second highest one-day percentage decline in stock market history.

2005 - Saddam Hussein's trial starts in Baghdad for crimes committed against humanity in the city of Dujail, where 143 were killed.



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