March 28 Dateline

Birthdays

1483 - Santi Raphael, Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance (birthday is not certain, could be March 28 or April 6). The works of Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.

1868 - Maxim Gorky (born Alexei Maximovich Peshkov), Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright, a founder of the socialist realism literary method, and a political activist. He was also a five-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1871 - Willem Mengelberg,  Dutch conductor famous especially for his performances of Mahler and Strauss with the Concertgebouw Orchestra.  (Mengelberg conducts Mahler's Symphony No. 4. Live recording, Amsterdam, XI.1939. Accessed March 28, 2017. So engaging, can't help but listen intently. Brilliant conducting from Mengelberg!) 

1943 - Sir Richard Henry Simpson Stilgoe OBE DL, is a British songwriter, lyricist and musician, and broadcaster who is best known for his humorous songs and frequent television appearances. His output includes collaborations with Andrew Lloyd Webber and Peter Skellern. He is also a keen puzzler who has hosted several quiz shows and written several books on the subject.  Stilgoe is also notable for his charity work and fundraising.

1921 - Dirk Bogarde (Sir Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde), English actor and writer. Initially a matinée idol in films such as Doctor in the House for the Rank Organisation, Bogarde later acted in art-house films. In a second career, he wrote seven best-selling volumes of memoirs, six novels and a volume of collected journalism, mainly from articles in The Daily Telegraph. Bogarde came to prominence in films including The Blue Lamp in the early 1950s, before starring in the successful Doctor film series. He twice won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, for The Servant and Darling. His other notable film roles included Victim, Accident, The Damned, Death in Venice, The Night Porter, A Bridge Too Far and Despair. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1990 and a Knight Bachelor in 1992. (Haunting scenes from Death in Venice/Muerte en Venecia, starring Dirk Bogarde, (uploaded by Nick Tsormas), and more scenes (uploaded by Morrissot), with a poignant theme from Mahler's Symphony No. 5, "Adagietto" in Movement 4. Directed by Luchino Visconti, based on the great novel by Thomas Mann. Uploaded by Nick Tsormas. Accessed  March 28, 2018.

1924 - Freddie Bartholomew (born Frederick Cecil Bartholomew), English-American child actor. One of the most famous child actors of all time, he became very popular in 1930s Hollywood films. His most famous starring roles are in Captains Courageous (1937) and Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936). Freddie Bartholomew was born in London, and for the title role of MGM's David Copperfield (1935) he emigrated to the United States at the age of 10, living there the rest of his life. He became an American citizen in 1943 following World War II military service. Despite his great success and acclaim following David Copperfield, his childhood film stardom was marred by nearly constant legal battles and payouts which eventually took a huge toll on both his finances and his career. After World War II service, his film career dwindled, and he switched from performing to directing and producing in the medium of television.(Lord Fauntleroy (1936) - Full Movie. Described and Captioned Media Program. Accessed March 28, 2018.) 

Lefties:
None known

 

More birthdays and historical events, March 28 - On This Day

Historical Events

1854 - The Crimean War begins when France and Britain declare war on Russia to stop the Russians from controlling sections of the crumbling Ottoman empire.  

1930 - The Turkish Post Office officially changes Constantinople's name to Istanbul, a name used by Arabs since the thirteenth century that derives from the Greek phrase eis ten polin, "in the city." The city was originally named for the Roman emperor Constantine, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. Constantine converted to Christianity when he saw a vast cross in the sky. It is said that his vision may have coincided with a meteor strike reported that same time, great enough to create a cloud that looked like a cross. He wanted Christian relics of similar stature to St peter, so had the bones of St Andrew, another apostle, brought to Constantinople. Some of them were later taken by a monk shipwrecked off the coast of Scotland, which somehow got its link to St. Andrew.

1938 - Ugo Cerletti and Lucio Bini, Italian psychiatrists, use electric shock treatment for the first time. They used a man found mumbling to himself as he wandered in a railway station as their first patient.

1939 - Madrid surrenders to General Francisco Franco, ending the Spanish Civil War. More than one million people had died in the three-year conflict.

1941 - English writer Virginia Woolf, one of the foremost modernists of the 20th century drowns herself in the River Ouse, fearing another attack of the mental disorder that has plagued her intermittently since youth. 

1941 - U.S. President George W. Bush announces the withdrawal of his nation's signature from the Kyoto Protocol. 


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5. Grun, Bernard. The Timestables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
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