December 3 Dateline

Birthdays

1857 - Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski), Polish-British writer, famous for Lord Jim and Nostromo. He's regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Conrad wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst of what he saw as an impassive, inscrutable universe. He is considered an early modernist, though his works contain elements of 19th-century realism. His narrative style and anti-heroic characters have influenced numerous authors, and many films have been adapted from, or inspired by, his works. (The Secret Polish History of Joseph Conrad. Uploaded by Culture.pl. Accessed December 3, 2019.)

1883 - Anton Webern, Austrian composer and conductor. Along with his mentor Arnold Schoenberg and his colleague Alban Berg, Webern was in the core of those in the circle of the Second Viennese School, including Ernst Krenek and Theodor W. Adorno. As an exponent of atonality and twelve-tone technique, Webern exerted influence on contemporaries Luigi Dallapiccola, Křenek, and even Schoenberg himself. (Pierre Boulez conducts Anton Webern. Uploaded by Classical Music11. Accessed December 3, 2015.)

1895 - Anna Freud, Austrian-British psychoanalyst. She was born in Vienna, the sixth and youngest child of Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays. She followed the path of her father and contributed to the field of psychoanalysis. Alongside Melanie Klein, she may be considered the founder of psychoanalytic child psychology. Compared to her father, her work emphasized the importance of the ego and its normal "developmental lines" as well as incorporating a distinctive emphasis on collaborative work across a range of analytical and observational contexts. After the Freud family were forced to leave Vienna in 1938 with the advent of the Nazi regime in Austria, she resumed her psychoanalytic practice and her pioneering work in child psychology in London, establishing the Hampstead Child Therapy Course and Clinic in 1952 (now the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families) as a centre for therapy, training and research work.

1927 - Andy Williams, American singer (The Best Songs of Andy Williams, uploaded by thisboy 91554. Accessed December 3, 2018.)  He recorded 43 albums in his career, of which 15 have been gold-certified and three platinum-certified. He was also nominated for six Grammy Awards. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a television variety show, and numerous TV specials. The Andy Williams Show won three Emmy awards. The Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri is named after the song for which he is best known—Johnny Mercer and Henry Mancini's "Moon River".

1930 - Jean-Luc Godard, French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement, and arguably considered the most influential French filmmaker of the post-war era. Through his father, he is the cousin of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, former President of Peru. He has been married twice, to actresses Anna Karina and Anne Wiazemsky, both of whom starred in several of his films. His collaborations with Karina—which included such critically acclaimed films as Vivre sa vie, Bande à part and Pierrot le Fou—were called "arguably the most influential body of work in the history of cinema" by Filmmaker magazine.

1960 - Julianne Moore  (born Julie Anne Smith),  American-British actress and author. Prolific in film since the early 1990s, she is especially known for her portrayals of emotionally troubled women in both independent and blockbuster films, and has received many accolades, including an Academy Award, two Emmy Awards, and two Golden Globes. Time magazine named Moore one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2015. Moore received considerable recognition in the late 1990s and early 2000s, earning Oscar nominations for Boogie Nights, The End of the Affair, Far from Heaven and The Hours. In the first of these, she played a 1970s pornographic actress, while the other three starred her as an unhappy, mid-20th century housewife. In addition to acting, Moore has written a series of children's books about a character named "Freckleface Strawberry". She is married to director Bart Freundlich, with whom she has two children.

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Actress Julianne Moore

 

More birthdays and historical events, December 3 - On This Day

 

Historical Events

1620 - The Paris Motor Show visitors are introduced to the neon lamp invented by physicist Georges Claude.

1925 - George Gershwin is soloist in the premiere of his Piano Concerto in F, in Carnegie Hall, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony Society. Enjoy the music.

Video of Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F, Raymond Lewenthal, pianist, with the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Oskar Danon.

 

 
1967 - Dr. Christiaan Barnard and his team perform the first successful human heart transplant, in Cape Town, South Africa. Louis Washkansky is the recipient whose immune system is weakened by anti-rejection drugs and dies from pneumonia after 18 days.

1973 - The Pioneer 10 spacecraft, the first artificial object to travel through the asteroid belt, captures the first close-up images of planet Jupiter.

1997 - UK places a ban on the sale of unbound beef in a precautionary move to prevent human contraction of BSE (mad cow disease).G

Video Credit:

George Gershwin - Concerto in F.  YouTube, uploaded by Miljkmi.  Accessed December 3, 2016.


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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.

 

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