Birthdays
1626 - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, English statesman who was the second Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland and son of the first Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. On his father's death Richard became Lord Protector but lacked authority. He tried to mediate between the army and civil society and allowed a Parliament containing many disaffected Presbyterians and Royalists to sit. Suspicions that civilian councillors were intent on supplanting the army were brought to a head by an attempt to prosecute a major-general for actions against a Royalist. The army made a threatening show of force against Richard and may have had him in detention. He formally renounced power nine months after succeeding.
1814 - Jean-Francois Millet, French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon school in rural France. Millet is noted for his scenes of peasant farmers; he can be categorized as part of the Realism art movement. (The Complete Works of Jean-Francois Millet. Uploaded by 1st Gallery com. The Pain of Pastoral Life: Millet's Impact on Vincent van Gogh. Uploaded by Fora.tv. Millet Biography from Goodbye-Art Academy. Uploaded by Philinthecircle. Accessed October 2019.
1924 - Charlton Heston (born John Charles Carter), American Actor and Political Activist. As a Hollywood star, he appeared in almost 100 films over the course of 60 years. He played Moses in the epic film The Ten Commandments (1956), for which he received his first nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. He starred in The Greatest Show on Earth, Secret of the Incas, Touch of Evil, The Big Country, Ben-Hur (1959), for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor, El Cid, The Greatest Story Ever Told, and Planet of the Apes. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was one of a handful of Hollywood actors to speak against racism, and was an active supporter of the Civil Rights Movement. He left the Democratic Party in 1971 to become a Republican, founding a conservative political action committee and supporting Ronald Reagan. Heston was a five-term president of the National Rifle Association (NRA).
1941 - Anne Rice (born Howard Allen Frances O'Brien), pen name Anne Rampling, A. N. Roquelaure, American Author of gothic fiction, Christian literature, and erotic literature. She is best known for her series of novels The Vampire Chronicles, of which books from it were the subject of two film adaptations, Interview with the Vampire, and Queen of the Damned. Rice has also authored books such as The Feast of All Saints (adapted for television in 2001) and Servant of the Bones, which formed the basis of a 2011 comic book miniseries. Rice has also authored erotic fiction under the pen names Anne Rampling and A. N. Roquelaure, including Exit to Eden, which was later adapted into a film. Rice's books have sold nearly 100 million copies, placing her among the most popular authors in recent American history.
1946 - Susan Abigail Sarandon ( (née Tomalin), American Actress and Progressive Political Activist. She has received an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and has been nominated for nine Golden Globe Awards. Sarandon was appointed a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in 1999 and received the Action Against Hunger Humanitarian Award in 2006. Sarandon was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Atlantic City, Thelma & Louise, Lorenzo's Oil, and The Client, before winning for Dead Man Walking (1995). She won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Client, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress for Dead Man Walking. Sarandon made her Broadway debut in the play An Evening with Richard Nixon and went on to receive Drama Desk Award nominations for the Off-Broadway plays A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking and Extremities. On TV, Sarandon is a six-time Primetime Emmy Award nominee, including for her guest roles on the sitcoms Friends and Malcolm in the Middle, as well as supporting role in the film You Don't Know Jack. She was also nominated for her leading roles as Doris Duke in the film Bernard and Doris (2008) and Bette Davis in the miniseries Feud.
Lefties:
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Featured Music:
D. Shostakovich's Cello concerto No. 1 in E-flat major.
Performed by hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra), conducted by Stanisław Skrowaczewski, performs Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1. Johannes Moser, Violoncello.
1537 - The book of Matthew in the Holy Bible is printed under the pseudonym Thomas Matthew. It is the first complete English Bible which is translated from the original languages.
1582 - The Gregorian calendar is decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, and today this year is followed by October 15 in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Poland.
1824 - Mexico becomes a republic.
1957 - Russian satellite Sputnik I is launched, becoming the first artificial object to leave Earth's atmosphere. Along with the first probe to planet Venus, the first man and woman in space and the first moon probe, this is the beginning of a period of achievement so incredible that forced the U.S. to catch up.
1959 - Dmitri Shostakovich's Cello Concert No. 1 is first performed, in Leningrad.
Video Credit:
Performed by hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra), conducted by Stanisław Skrowaczewski, performs Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1. Johannes Moser, Violoncello.
Historical Events
1537 - The book of Matthew in the Holy Bible is printed under the pseudonym Thomas Matthew. It is the first complete English Bible which is translated from the original languages.
1582 - The Gregorian calendar is decreed by Pope Gregory XIII, and today this year is followed by October 15 in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Poland.
1824 - Mexico becomes a republic.
1957 - Russian satellite Sputnik I is launched, becoming the first artificial object to leave Earth's atmosphere. Along with the first probe to planet Venus, the first man and woman in space and the first moon probe, this is the beginning of a period of achievement so incredible that forced the U.S. to catch up.
1959 - Dmitri Shostakovich's Cello Concert No. 1 is first performed, in Leningrad.
Video Credit:
Schostakowitsch: 1. Cellokonzert ∙ Johannes Moser ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Stanisław Skrowaczewski. YouTube, uploaded by hr-Sinfonieorchester - Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. (hr-Sinfonieorchester (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra)∙
Johannes Moser, Violoncello∙
Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Dirigent).
Resources:
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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