October 9 Dateline

Birthdays

1201 - Robert de Sorbon,  French theologian, the Chaplain of Louis IX of France, and founder of the Sorbonne college in Paris. He was noted for his piety and attracted the patronage of the Comte d'Artois and King Louis IX of France, later known as Saint Louis. Sorbon established the Maison de Sorbonne, a college in Paris originally intended to teach theology to twenty poor students. Sponsored by King Louis and received the endorsement of Pope Alexander IV in 1259, it grew into a major centre of learning and became the core of what would become the University of Paris. Sorbon served as chancellor of the university, taught and preached there from 1258 until his death. The library at the University of Reims, which opened in 2006, is named after him.

1832 - Elizabeth Akers Allen (pen name, Florence Percy), American poet and journalist, popular with "Rock Me to Sleep" especially during the U.S. Civil War. Many of them were first published in the Portland Transcript. She came to Portland, Maine in 1855, and a volume of her fugitive poems appeared in that city just before her marriage to Paul Akers, the sculptor, whom she accompanied to Italy, and buried there. For several years, she was on the editorial staff of the Portland Advertiser. She wrote for most of the leading magazines, and several editions of her collected poems were published. 

  

1835 - Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Second Piano Concerto (1868), the First Cello Concerto (1872), Danse macabre (1874), the opera Samson and Delilah (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and The Carnival of the Animals (1886). Great Composers: Camille Saint-Saëns. YouTube, uploaded by Thomas Little. Accessed October 9, 2018.

1852 - Hermann Emil Louis Fischer FRS FRSE FCS, German organic chemist and 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He discovered the Fischer esterification. He also developed the Fischer projection, a symbolic way of drawing asymmetric carbon atoms. He also hypothesized lock and key mechanism of enzyme action.

1940 - John Lennon, MBE (born John Winston Lennon), English musician, singer, songwriter, Beatles Band/Group and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as the founder, co-lead vocalist, and rhythm guitarist of the Beatles. His songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history. In 1969, he started the Plastic Ono Band with his second wife, Yoko Ono. After the Beatles disbanded in 1970, Lennon continued as a solo artist and as a collaborator of Ono's music. (John Lennon - Imagine. Uploaded by EMI Records Italy. Accessed October 9, 2014.)

1966 - David William Donald Cameron, Former U.K. Prime Minister. British Conservative Party Politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Witney from 2001 to 2016 and leader of the Conservative Party from 2005 to 2016.

Leftie:
Former British Prime Minister David Cameron

 

 

More birthdays and historical events, October 9 - On This Day

Historical Events

1776 - Father Francisco Palou founds Mission San Francisco de Asis, which becomes the U.S. City of San Francisco.

1891 - Antonin Dvorak conducts his Requiem Mass at Birmingham, England. 

1921 - Leos Janacek's Slavonic rhapsody Taras Bulba, after Gogol, is first performed, in Brno.

1930 - Pioneer aviatrix Laura Ingalls becomes the first woman to fly across the U.S., from New York to California with nine stops.

 

1986 - The Phantom of the Opera musical premieres in Her Majesty's Theatre, London's West End. Lyrics by Charles Hart, and a libretto by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe. It is based on the 1910 French novel of the same name by Gaston Leroux. The plot revolves around a beautiful soprano, Christine Daaé, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious, masked musical genius living in the subterranean labyrinth beneath the Paris Opéra House. It opened on Broadway in New York in 1988. English classical soprano Sarah Brightman (Lloyd Webber's then-wife) was cast as Christine Daaé. It won the 1986 Olivier Award and the 1988 Tony Award for Best Musical, and Michael Crawford (in the title role) won the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical.

 

1989 - A Soviet Union news agency reports that scientists confirm the landing of a UFO in Voronesh, Southern Russia, and the alien spaceship carries giant "humanoids."




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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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