Birthdays
All Saints Day or All Hallows Day
0846 A.D. - King Louis II of France, Louis II, known as Louis the Stammerer, king of Aquitaine and later the king of West Francia. He was the eldest son of Emperor Charles the Bald and Ermentrude of Orléans. Louis the Stammerer was physically weak and outlived his father by a year and a half. He succeeded his younger brother Charles the Child as the ruler of Aquitaine in 866 and his father in West Francia in 877, but he was never crowned emperor.
1844 - Olga Wisinger-Florian, Austrian Impressionist painter, who painted mainly of landscapes and flower still life. She was a representative of the Austrian "Stimmungsimpressionismus", a loose group of Austrian impressionist painters that was considered avant-garde in the 1870s and 1880s. The work she showed at the Paris and Chicago international exhibitions earned her worldwide acclaim. She exhibited her work at the Palace of Fine Arts and The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. She was also active in the middle-class women's movements of the time, was awarded numerous distinctions and prizes. Wisinger-Florian's early paintings can be assigned to what is known as Austrian Mood Impressionism. In her landscape paintings she adopted her teacher Schindler's sublime approach to nature, displayed in the motifs she used, such as views of tree-lined avenues, gardens and fields, before she went her own way. Her conception of landscapes became more realistic. Her late work is notable for a lurid palette, with discernible overtones of Expressionism. With landscape and flower pictures that were already Expressionist in palette by the 1890s, she was years ahead of her time. Despite her late start as a painter, Wisinger-Florian enjoyed renown in fin de siècle Vienna. (Olga Wiisinger-Florian Paintings, with Wolfgang Mozart's Concerto No. 5. Uploaded by fanfanchatblanc. Accessed November 1, 2017.)
1923 - Victoria de los Angeles, Spanish operatic lyric soprano and recitalist whose career began after the Second World War and reached its height in the years from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s. She was ranked number 3, after Maria Callas and Dame Joan Sutherland, in the BBC Music Magazine 's List of The Top Twenty Sopranos of All Time (2007). (Victoria de los Angeles: rare and fabulous concert in 1957. YouTube, uploaded by Opera Nostalgia. Accessed November 1, 2019.)
1935 - Gary Player, DMS, OIG, South African retired professional golfer who is widely considered to be one of the greatest golfers ever. Player won nine major championships on the regular tour and nine major championships on the Champions Tour. At the age of 29, Player won the 1965 U.S. Open and became the only non-American to win all four majors in a career, known as the career Grand Slam. At the time, he was the youngest player to do this, though Jack Nicklaus (26) and Tiger Woods (24) subsequently broke this record. Player became only the third golfer in history to win the Career Grand Slam, following Ben Hogan and Gene Sarazen, and only Nicklaus and Woods have performed the feat since. He won over 150 professional tournaments on six continents over seven decades and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974.
1972 - Toni Colette (Toni Collette-Galafassi, born Toni Collett), Australian actress, producer, and singer-songwriter, known for her work in independent films as well as supporting roles in studio films. After making her feature film debut in Spotswood for which she was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, her breakthrough role came in the comedy-drama Muriel's Wedding, for which she earned a Golden Globe Award nomination and won the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Collette achieved greater international recognition for her role in the horror film The Sixth Sense, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Leftie:
King Louis of France (or Louis the Stammerer)
More birthdays and historical events, November 1 - On This Day
Historical Events
1512 - Michelangelo begins to paint the 5,000 square foot (1,520 sq m) ceiling of the Vatican's Sistine Chapel in July 1508. He finished it on October 31, removed the scaffolding, and the completed ceiling becomes visible to the public.
1884 - Greenwich Mean Time is adopted as the universal 0-degree longitude line, or International Date Line, at a meeting of the International Meridian Conference in Washington D.C.
1948 - Aaron Copland's suite from the film The Red Pony if first performed, in Houston, Texas.
1954 - Maria Callas makes her American debut in Chicago, starring in Bellini's famous opera Norma.
1986 - A fire at a chemical factory near Basel, Switzerland, causes tons of toxic waste to spill into the Rhine River.
1993 - The Maastricht Treaty comes into effect, creating the European Union. The aim of the union is to engender greater cooperation, especially in the fields of security and economics.
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2. Britannica.www.britannica.com
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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
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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