November 2 Dateline

Birthdays

1734 - Daniel Boone, American pioneer, explorer, woodsman, and frontiersman whose frontier exploits made him one of the first folk heroes of the United States. Although he also became a businessman, soldier and politician who represented three different counties in the Virginia General Assembly following the American Revolutionary War, Boone is most famous for his exploration and settlement of what is now Kentucky, that remained part of Virginia until it became a state in 1791.

1739 - Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian violinist and composer. His German-language two-act singspiel Doktor und Apotheker (Doctor and Apothecary), uploaded by Musikacademie Rheinsberb, is considered the his masterpiece. (Listen to his Sinfonia Concertante for Viola and Double Bass -  Czech Chamber Soloists.  Conductor: Leos Svarovsky, Viola: Ladislov Kyselak,  Double Bass: Miloslav Jelinek Panton.  Record Label. YouTube, uploaded by Brian Knapp. Accessed November 2, 2018)

1755 - Marie Antoinette (born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna), the last queen of France before the French Revolution. She was born an archduchess of Austria and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I. She became dauphine of France in May 1770 at age 14 upon her marriage to Louis-Auguste, heir apparent to the French throne. On 10 May 1774, her husband ascended the throne as Louis XVI and she became queen.

1868 - Yokoyama Taikan (pseudonym Sakai Hidemaro), Japanese painter, a major figure in pre-World War II Japanese painting. He is notable for helping create the Japanese painting technique of Nihonga. Among Yokoyama’s works are “Mountain Path,” “Vicissitudes,” and “Cherry Blossoms.” (Y. Taikan brief profile from Britannica.com. Accessed October 27, 2019)

1906 -  Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo, Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, also a screenwriter. He is best known for his films Ossessione (1943), Senso (1954), Rocco and His Brothers (1960), The Leopard (1963) and Death in Venice (1971). He was formally known as Count don Luchino Visconti di Modrone, and his family is a branch of the Visconti of Milan. In his early years, he was exposed to art, music and theatre: he studied cello with the Italian cellist and composer Lorenzo de Paolis (1890–1965) and met the composer Giacomo Puccini, the conductor Arturo Toscanini and the writer Gabriele D'Annunzio.(The Films of Luchino Visconte. Uploaded by Eddie Lensweiger. Accessed November 2, 2017.  Visconti's Actors / Visconte Y Sus Actores. Uploaded by  pereznuix. Accessed November 2, 2014.)

1913 - Burt Stephen Lancaster,  American actor and producer. Initially known for playing "tough guys" with a tender streak, he went on to achieve success with more complex and challenging roles over a 45-year career in film and, later, television. He was a four-time nominee for the Academy Award for Best Actor (winning once), and also winning two BAFTA Awards and one Golden Globe Award for Best Lead Actor. His breakthrough role was the film noir The Killers alongside Ava Gardner.  He played the illicit lover of Deborah Kerr in the military drama From Here to Eternity. A box office smash, it won eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and landed a Best Actor nomination for Lancaster. In 1956, he starred in The Rainmaker, earning a Best Actor Golden Globe nomination.

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More birthdays and historical events, November 2 - On This Day

 

Historical Events

1899 - The Boers begin their siege of British-occupied Ladysmith in South Africa. The siege lasts 118 days before the Gordon Highlanders arrive, driving off the Boers.

1950 - Italian-French pianist Aldo Ciccolini makes his American debut playing Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

Below's performance of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto in B flat minor was recorded July 25 July, 1951, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées.  The uploader recorded this track from the LP, "Tchaikovsky - Concerto No. 1," issued by RCA Victor on the Bluebird Classics label (LBC 1020).

 

 
1960 - A literary milestone when the unexpurgated novel Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence was eventually published. Penguin Publishing in London is found by the court that it hasn't broken obscenity laws in its unexpurgated version.

In 1928, D.H. Lawrence wrote Lady Chatterley's Lover but was unable to find a publisher. He printed it privately, selling all his copies. Lawrence died of tuberculosis in 1930. In 1960, Penguin publishers tested the Obscene Publications Act in the UK by publishing the unexpurgated version of the book. The case hit the headlines, with many people testifying as to its literary merit. This day, November 1, 1960, the London courts decided that Penguin had not breached the law and D.H. Lawrence's unexpurgated book was released to the public. Lady Chatterley's Lover is available to this day.

Lady Chatterley's Lover has been adapted for film several times. One of the popular ones is the 1981 film version starring Sylvia Kristel and Nicholas Clay, directed by Just Jaeckin.

1963 - South Vietnamese President Ngo Dien Diem is assassinated after a military coup. U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war increases.

2000 - The first crew including two Russians and an American, arrives in a Russian spacecraft to live for 4 months in the International Space Station (ISS).

2003 - Explorer Ranulph Fiennes and Dr. Mike Stroud complete the last of seven marathons in seven days on seven continents. Considering Fiennes is 59 years old and previously had undergone double heart bypass surgery, this is a remarkable undertaking.



Image Credit:

Lady Chatterley's Lover Book Cover, Wiki Commons


Video Credit:

Aldo Ciccolini:  Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 - Movement 1: Allegro non troppo (Part 1 of 2), recorded 1951.  Youtube, uploaded by davidhertzberg1. Accessed November 2, 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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