Birthdays
1622 - Molière, (born Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), French playwright, actor and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature. His extant works include comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets and more. Playwright (Moliere - Man of Satire and Many Burials: Crash Course Theater #21.) Uploaded by CrashCourse. Accessed January 15, 2019.)
1842 - Mary Helen MacKillop RSJ, Australian religious sister who has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church, as St Mary of the Cross. Of Scottish descent and born in Melbourne, she's best known for her activities in South Australia. She co-founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart (the Josephites), that established a number of schools and welfare institutions in Australia and New Zealand. She was beatified in January 1995 by Pope John Paul II. She was canonised on 17 October 2010, during a public ceremony in St Peter's Square at the Vatican. She is the first Australian to be recognised by the Catholic Church as a saint. Mary MacKillop is the patron saint of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane.
1906 - Aristotle Socrates Onassis, Greek businessman, shipping magnate. commonly called Ari or Aristo Onassis, who amassed the world's largest privately owned shipping fleet and was one of the world's richest and most famous men. He was married to Athina Mary Livanos (daughter of shipping tycoon Stavros G. Livanos), had a long-standing affair with famous opera singer Maria Callas and was married to Jacqueline Kennedy, the widow of American President John F. Kennedy. Onassis was greatly affected by the death of his 24-year-old son, Alexander, in a plane crash in 1973, and he died two years later.
1908 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-American theoretical physicist, known as the "Father of Hydrogen Bomb", although he did not care for the title, considering it poor taste. Throughout his life, Teller was known both for his scientific ability and for his difficult interpersonal relations and volatile personality.
1909 - Elie Siegmeister, American composer, teacher, writer, and conductor (E. Siegmeister's "They Came to Cordura". Intrada (from Main Title heard in the film), Uploaded by Fifth Continent. Accessed January 15, 2017.) He wrote a number of important books on music, among them "Treasury of American Song" (Knopf, 1940–43, text coauthored with Olin Downs, music arranged by Siegmeister), second edition revised and enlarged (Consolidated Music Publishers); "The Music Lover's Handbook" (William Morrow, 1943; Book-of-the-Month Club selection), revised and expanded as "The New Music Lover's Handbook" (1973); and the two-volume "Harmony and Melody" (Wadsworth, 1985), which was widely adopted by college and conservatory curricula. Siegmeister also recorded and released an instructional album of music, Invitation to Music, on Folkways Records, on which he discusses the fundamentals of music.
1908 - Edward Teller, Hungarian-American theoretical physicist, known as the "Father of Hydrogen Bomb", although he did not care for the title, considering it poor taste. Throughout his life, Teller was known both for his scientific ability and for his difficult interpersonal relations and volatile personality.
1909 - Elie Siegmeister, American composer, teacher, writer, and conductor (E. Siegmeister's "They Came to Cordura". Intrada (from Main Title heard in the film), Uploaded by Fifth Continent. Accessed January 15, 2017.) He wrote a number of important books on music, among them "Treasury of American Song" (Knopf, 1940–43, text coauthored with Olin Downs, music arranged by Siegmeister), second edition revised and enlarged (Consolidated Music Publishers); "The Music Lover's Handbook" (William Morrow, 1943; Book-of-the-Month Club selection), revised and expanded as "The New Music Lover's Handbook" (1973); and the two-volume "Harmony and Melody" (Wadsworth, 1985), which was widely adopted by college and conservatory curricula. Siegmeister also recorded and released an instructional album of music, Invitation to Music, on Folkways Records, on which he discusses the fundamentals of music.
1913 - Miriam Beatrice Hyde, AO, OBE, Australian Classical composer, pianist, music educator and poet. She composed over 150 works for piano, 50 songs, other
instrumental and orchestral works and performed as a concert pianist with eminent conductors including Sir Malcolm Sargent, Constant Lambert, Georg Schnéevoigt, Sir Bernard Heinze and Geoffrey Simon. She also wrote books of poetry published, and an autobiography. (Classic Getaway: Miriam Hyde "The Fountain". YouTube, uploaded by ABC Classic. Performed by Tamara-Anna Cislowska. Miriam Hyde: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat minor (with her brief biography). Herself on the piano, accompanied by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra,
Geoffrey Simon, conducting. YouTube, uploaded by Johann Rufinatscha. Accessed January 15, 2019.)
1913 - Lloyd Vernet Bridges Jr., American film, stage and television actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. He was the father of four children, including the actors Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges. He started his career as a contract performer for Columbia Pictures, appearing in films such as Sahara, A Walk in the Sun, Little Big Horn and High Noon. On television, he starred in Sea Hunt from 1958 to 1961. By the end of his career, he had re-invented himself and demonstrated a comedic talent in parody films. Bridges was a two-time Emmy Award nominee. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on February 1, 1994.
1926 - Maria Schell (born Maria Margarethe Anna Schell), Austrian-Swiss actress, older sister of Maximilian Schell. In 1954, she was awarded the Cannes Best Actress Award for her performance in Helmut Käutner's war drama The Last Bridge, and in 1956, she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for Gervaise. She starred in such films as The Magic Box, Dr. Holl, So Little Time, The Heart of the Matter. Her emotional acting earned her the nickname Seelchen ("little soul"), coined by her colleague Oskar Werner. The 1956 film Gervaise directed by René Clément was also a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film; while in Hollywood, Schell met with Yul Brynner, who urged for her casting in The Brothers Karamazov in the role of Grushenka. Among other films, Schell also starred with Gary Cooper in The Hanging Tree, and with Glenn Ford in Cimarron. Schell also had guest appearances in German television series.
1929 - Martin Luther King, Jr. (born Michael King Jr.), American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible leader in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi. He was the son of early civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Sr.. King led marches for blacks' right to vote, desegregation, labor rights, and other basic civil rights; the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott, and later became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). King helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
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Civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr.
More birthdays and historical events, January 15 - On This Day
1790 - Fletcher Christian and the Bounty mutineers land on Pitcairn Island in the Pacific burning their ship in 'Bounty Bay'. They remain undiscovered until 1808, when an American whaling ship stops at the island.
1797 - The first top hat is worn in London. Haberdasher James Hetherington is fined 50 Pounds for wearing it and causing a breach of the peace.
1890 - Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Sleeping Beauty is first staged in St. Petersburg.
1974 - Happy Days premieres on ABC in the US. Between 1974 and 1984, the television show Happy Days characterized the relationship dynamics, day-to-day living of the Cunningham family, a middle-class midwestern American family in the 1950s. With highly successful spin-off shows including Laverne and Shirley and Mork and Mindy, Happy Days became one of the longest-running primetime program in television history. It aired for 11 seasons.
2001 - The free-content and multi-lingual website Wikipedia goes public. It is written collaboratively by volunteers.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American civil rights leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, on January 15, 1929. His father was a Baptist minister and so was his grandfather. He was married with two sons and two daughters. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1948.
Originally planned to become a doctor of medicine, he decided instead to become a minister, receiving a BA in Theology. He graduated with a PhD in Boston University, and began taking seriously philosophy of non-violence. In effect, he became a strong advocate of Mahatma Gandhi, known for Non-Violence discipline. He became politically active.
In April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in support of a sanitation workers' strike. He is well-known for his great 1963 speech:
"I have a dream that one day this nation will one day rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed ..."
There is a US public holiday in his honor, "Martin Luther King Day" - the third Monday in January.
Image Credits:
1. Happy Days: IMDB.com
2. Martin Luther King, Jr., en.wikipedia.org / public domain
Resources:
Historical Events
1790 - Fletcher Christian and the Bounty mutineers land on Pitcairn Island in the Pacific burning their ship in 'Bounty Bay'. They remain undiscovered until 1808, when an American whaling ship stops at the island.
1797 - The first top hat is worn in London. Haberdasher James Hetherington is fined 50 Pounds for wearing it and causing a breach of the peace.
1890 - Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Sleeping Beauty is first staged in St. Petersburg.
1974 - Happy Days premieres on ABC in the US. Between 1974 and 1984, the television show Happy Days characterized the relationship dynamics, day-to-day living of the Cunningham family, a middle-class midwestern American family in the 1950s. With highly successful spin-off shows including Laverne and Shirley and Mork and Mindy, Happy Days became one of the longest-running primetime program in television history. It aired for 11 seasons.2001 - The free-content and multi-lingual website Wikipedia goes public. It is written collaboratively by volunteers.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American civil rights leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, on January 15, 1929. His father was a Baptist minister and so was his grandfather. He was married with two sons and two daughters. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1948.Originally planned to become a doctor of medicine, he decided instead to become a minister, receiving a BA in Theology. He graduated with a PhD in Boston University, and began taking seriously philosophy of non-violence. In effect, he became a strong advocate of Mahatma Gandhi, known for Non-Violence discipline. He became politically active.
In April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in support of a sanitation workers' strike. He is well-known for his great 1963 speech:
"I have a dream that one day this nation will one day rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed ..."
There is a US public holiday in his honor, "Martin Luther King Day" - the third Monday in January.
Image Credits:
1. Happy Days: IMDB.com
2. Martin Luther King, Jr., en.wikipedia.org / public domain
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
(c) June 2007. Updated January 15, 2023. Tel. Inspired Pen Web. All rights reserved.
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
(c) June 2007. Updated January 15, 2023. Tel. Inspired Pen Web. All rights reserved.
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