Birthdays
1632 - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, FRS, Dutch businessman and scientist (Microbiologist) in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology. A largely self-taught man in science, he is commonly known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists and microbiologists. (Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Biography. Uploaded by CloudBiography. Accessed October 24, 2013.)
1811 - Ferdinand (von) Hiller, German composer, conductor, pianist, writer and music critic. He was very successful lecturer and a forceful writer, his contributions to reviews and newspapers having been in book form. He also published among others: Musikalisches und Persönliches (1870), Wie hören wir Musik? (How do we hear [or: listen to] music?, 1880); Goethes musikalisches Leben (Goethe's musical life, 1880); and Erinnerungsblätter (Reminiscences, 1884). He published an account of his friendship with Mendelssohn in 1874. Part of his vast correspondence with other musicians and artists of his period has been published in seven volumes.
1868 - Alexandra David-Néel, Belgian–French explorer, spiritualist, anarchist and writer. She is most known for her 1924 visit to Lhasa, Tibet, when it was forbidden to foreigners. She was unhappy as a child. She tried running away over and over, starting when she was two years old. As a teenager, she traveled by herself through European countries, including a bike trip across Spain. When she was 21, she inherited money from her parents, and she used it all to go to Sri Lanka. She worked as an opera singer for a while to finance her travels. She was especially interested in Buddhism. She wrote over 30 books about Eastern religion, philosophy, and her travels, including Magic and Mystery in Tibet which was published in 1929. Her teachings influenced the beat writers Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, the populariser of Eastern philosophy Alan Watts, and the esotericist Benjamin Creme.
1925 - Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI, Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition Sinfonia and his series of virtuosic solo pieces titled Sequenza), and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.
1932 - Perre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and the Nobel Prize Laureate in physics in 1991. He worked on granular materials and on the nature of memory objects in the brain and was awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering that "methods developed for studying order phenomena in simple systems can be generalized to more complex forms of matter, in particular to liquid crystals and polymers".
1947 - Kevin (Delaney) Kline, American actor. He has won an Oscar and three Tony Awards and is a 2003 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee. A multi-awarded actor, Kline began his career on stage in 1972 with The Acting Company. He has gone on to win three Tony Awards for his work on Broadway, winning Best Featured Actor in a Musical for the 1978 original production of On the Twentieth Century, Best Actor in a Musical for the 1981 revival of The Pirates of Penzance, and Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for the 2017 revival of Present Laughter.
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More birthdays and historical events, October 24 - On This Day
Historical Events
1260 - Chartres Cathedral in France, is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France. It is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
1861 - The first transcontinental telegraph line across the U.S., between St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California, is completed by the Western Union Company.
1885 - Johann Strauss, Jr.'s operetta The Gipsy Baron is first staged in Vienna. (Below is its famous overture in a public concert performance by the Cologne New Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Volker Hartung. Live from Hamburg's Laeisz-Concert Hall, Germany in March 2012.
WATCH VIDEO in YOUTUBE! Playback is ONLY made available there. Johann Strauss • Overture to 'The Gipsy Baron' - Der Zigeunerbaron • Volker Hartung, conductor.
1929 - "Black Thursday" is one of the worst days of the stock market at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). It leads to the Great Crash of 1929.
1945 - The five founding United Nations members ratify the UN Charter in Washington D.C. The UN Charter- the constitution of the United Nations - was signed in San Francisco by the original member countries, 50 of them, on June 26, 1945, and ratified later that year, on October 24, by the founding members: Great Britain, the United States of America, France, U.S.S.R., and the Republic of China.
1973 - The Yom Kippur War, between Israel and a coalition of Arab nations, end.
1998 - Deep Space 1 is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to study comets and asteroids.
2004 - A Hendrick Motorsports plane carrying 10 NASCAR drivers and their relatives crashes en route to Martinsville Speedway, Virginia, killing all on board.
Video Credit:
Johann Strauss • Overture to 'The Gipsy Baron' - Der Zigeunerbaron • Volker Hartung, conductor. Youtube, uploaded by xx. Accessed OCtober 24, 2016.
Resources:
1. Asiado, Tel. The World's Movers and Shapers. New Hampshire: Ore Mountain Publishing House (2005)
2. Britannica. www.britannica.com
3. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 19th Ed. London: Chambers Harrap, 2011
4. Dateline. Sydney: Millennium House, (2006)
5. Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
6. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org
1929 - "Black Thursday" is one of the worst days of the stock market at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). It leads to the Great Crash of 1929.
1945 - The five founding United Nations members ratify the UN Charter in Washington D.C. The UN Charter- the constitution of the United Nations - was signed in San Francisco by the original member countries, 50 of them, on June 26, 1945, and ratified later that year, on October 24, by the founding members: Great Britain, the United States of America, France, U.S.S.R., and the Republic of China.
1973 - The Yom Kippur War, between Israel and a coalition of Arab nations, end.
1998 - Deep Space 1 is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to study comets and asteroids.
2004 - A Hendrick Motorsports plane carrying 10 NASCAR drivers and their relatives crashes en route to Martinsville Speedway, Virginia, killing all on board.
Video Credit:
Johann Strauss • Overture to 'The Gipsy Baron' - Der Zigeunerbaron • Volker Hartung, conductor. Youtube, uploaded by xx. Accessed OCtober 24, 2016.
Resources:
1. Asiado, Tel. The World's Movers and Shapers. New Hampshire: Ore Mountain Publishing House (2005)
2. Britannica. www.britannica.com
3. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 19th Ed. London: Chambers Harrap, 2011
4. Dateline. Sydney: Millennium House, (2006)
5. Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
6. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org
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