March 8 Dateline

Birthdays

1714 - Carl Philipp Emanuel (C.P.E.) Bach, German Classical period composer, the fifth child and second (surviving) son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. His second name was given in honor of his godfather Georg Philipp Telemann, a friend of Johann Sebastian Bach. C. P. E. Bach was an influential composer working at a time of transition between his father's Baroque style and the Classical style that followed it.  To his contemporaries, he was known simply as Emanuel. (Mozart's Tribute: Through the later half of the 18th century, the reputation of Emanuel Bach was very strong. Mozart said of him, ‘He is the father, we are the children.’ Haydn studied his work and Beethoven expressed the highest admiration and regard for his music. Later composers to be inspired by his music included Mendelssohn and Weber. 

 

1856 - Thomas "Tom"  William Roberts, English-born Australian artist and a key member of the Heidelberg School art movement, also known as Australian impressionism. His life was dramatised in the 1985 Australian mini series One Summer Again. A "lost" painting titled Rejected was featured in a 2017 episode of the BBC series Fake or Fortune?. It was determined by experts to be a genuine Roberts, dating from his student years in London. Roberts' granddaughter considered it a self-portrait. If so, it would make it his oldest surviving self-portrait.

 

1859 - Kenneth Grahame, Scottish writer. He is most famous for The Wind in the Willows (1908), a classic of children's literature, as well as The Reluctant Dragon. Both books were later adapted for stage and film, of which A. A. Milne's Toad of Toad Hall, based on part of The Wind in the Willows, was the first. Other adaptations include Cosgrove Hall Films' The Wind in the Willows (and its subsequent long-running television series), and the Walt Disney films (The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad and The Reluctant Dragon).  

1879 - Otto Hahn, German chemist who was a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and nuclear fission. Hahn and Lise Meitner discovered radioactive isotopes of radium, thorium, protactinium and uranium. He also discovered the phenomena of atomic recoil and nuclear isomerism, and pioneered rubidium–strontium dating. In 1938, Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission, for which Hahn received the 1944 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Nuclear fission was the basis for nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.

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More birthdays and historical events, March 8 - On This Day

Feature:

C.P.E. Bach: Cello Concerto in A Minor Wq. 170; William Skeen, Voices of Music, First Mvt. 4K UHD. (Uploaded by Voices of Music.)  Accessed March 8, 2018.  The opening Allegro Assai from Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Concerto in A minor, Wq.170, presented in celebration of his 300th anniversary. Performed on original instruments by the Early Music ensemble Voices of Music, William Skeen, soloist; 4K UHD video from our Virtuoso Concertos concert, November, 2014.

Historical Events

1265 - The first English "parliament" meets in which Simon de Montfort defeats Prince Edward - meeting of bishops, knights, and ordinary men from each city and borough, in England at Westminster Hall to discuss how the country should be governed.

1702 - Queen Anne inherits the throne of Britain when William III dies in a riding accident.

1942 - The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java after two months of fighting.  

1946 - The French naval fleet arrives at Haiphong, Vietnam.

1954 - France and Vietnam open talks in Paris on a treaty to form the state of Indochina.

1971 - Joe Frazier defeats Muhammad Ali in the boxing match dubbed "The Fight of the Century."



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2. Britannica. www.britannica.com
3. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 19th Ed. London: Chambers Harrap, 2011
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5. Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
6. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org 



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