March 30 Dateline

Birthdays

1746 - Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes, Spanish Romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and throughout his long career was a commentator and chronicler of his era. (Francisco Goya Documentary. Uploaded by ArchivTV 00. Accessed March 30, 2019.)

1853 - Vincent Willem van Gogh, Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. A lot have been written about him. In over a decade he created about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. His paintings include landscapes, still lifes, portraits and self-portraits, and are characterised by bold colours and dramatic, impulsive and expressive brushwork that contributed to the foundations of modern art. He was not commercially successful, and his suicide at 37 came after years of mental illness and poverty.   (Famous Vincent van Gogh Paintings. Uploaded by Arts Heavaen. Accessed March 30, 2015. Don McLean's "Vincent" - Starry, Starry Night. wysty67. Accessed March 30, 2019. Young Vincent. Thanks to Van Gogh Museum, Netherlands. Accessed April 23, 2020)

1872 - Sergei Nikiforovich Vasilenko was a Russian and Soviet composer, conductor, and music teacher whose compositions showed a strong tendency towards mysticism. (Sergei Vasilenko (1872-1956) : Symphony No. 3 "Italian" (1934). Orchestra of Balalaïka and Wind Orchestra (1934) Conductor: Nikolai Nekrason. Uploaded by collection CB2. Accessed March 30, 2019.)

1880 - Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes. From the early 1890s, O'Casey and his elder brother, Archie, put on performances of plays by Dion Boucicault and William Shakespeare in the family home. He also got a small part in Boucicault's The Shaughraun in the Mechanics' Theatre, which stood on what was to be the site of the Abbey Theatre.

1937 - Henry Warren Beatty (né Beaty), American actor and filmmaker. He has been nominated for 15 Academy Awards, including four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Original Screenplay, and one for Adapted Screenplay – winning Best Director for Reds (1981). Beatty is one of only two people (Orson Welles being the other) to have been nominated for acting in, directing, writing, and producing the same film, and he did so twice: first for Heaven Can Wait (with Buck Henry as co-director), and again with Reds. Eight of the films he has produced have earned 53 Academy nominations, and in 1999, he was awarded the Academy's highest honor, the Irving G. Thalberg Award. Beatty has been nominated for 18 Golden Globe Awards, winning six, including the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, which he was honoured with in 2007. Among his Golden Globe-nominated films are Splendor in the Grass, his screen debut, and Bonnie and Clyde, Shampoo, Heaven Can Wait, Reds, Dick Tracy, Bugsy, Bulworth and Rules Don't Apply, all of which he also produced.

1968 - Céline Marie Claudette Dion CC OQ, Quebecois Canadian singer. She is renowned for her powerful, technically skilled vocals, and remains the best-selling Canadian recording artist and one of the best-selling artists of all time with record sales of over 200 million worldwide. Born into a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, she emerged as a teen star in her home country with a series of French-language albums during the 1980s. She first gained international recognition by winning both the 1982 Yamaha World Popular Song Festival and the 1988 Eurovision Song Contest, where she represented Switzerland. After learning to speak English, she signed on to Epic Records in the United States. In 1990, Dion released her debut English-language album, Unison, establishing herself as a viable pop artist in North America and other English-speaking areas of the world.

Leftie:
Celine Dion

More birthdays and historical events, March 30 - On This Day

Listening Pleasure:

GOYA Complete Album - Placido Domingo Musical. Uploaded by Tozmusictv. Accessed March 30, 2017.  

Historical Events

1842 - Dr. Crawford W. Long uses ether as an anaesthetic for the first time when he removes a tumor from a patient's neck.

1856 - The Paris Treaty is signed, bringing the Crimean War to an end.

1870 - The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed, granting African American men the right to vote.

1920 - Juilliard Musical Foundation is incorporated in New York City.

1944 - The bombing of Nuremberg takes place. Almost a hundred planes and crews from Bomber Command are lost in one night. More airman are killed in this single attack than in the Battle of Britain.

1981 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest by John Hinckley, Jr. outside the Washington Hilton Hotel. He survives.

1987 - One of Vincent Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" paintings sells at Christie's auction rooms for a record U.S. $39,921,759. 

2018 - GOOD FRIDAY.  It is the Friday before Easter Sunday, on which the Crucifixion of Christ is commemorated in the Christian Church. It is traditionally a day of fasting and penance.

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 Timestables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
6. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org

Image Credit:
"Sunflowers"  by Vincent van Gogh. Wiki Commons. Public Domain



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