June 13 Dateline

Quote: "To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind." ~ Fanny Burney

Birthdays

1752 - Fanny Burney (born Frances Burney,) and later known as Madame d'Arblay, English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright. Born in Lynn Regis, now King's Lynn, England, on 13 June 1752, to the musician Dr Charles Burney and his first wife, Esther Sleepe Burney, she was the third of her mother's six children. Of her four novels, the first, Evelina, was the most successful, and remains the most highly regarded. Most of her plays remained unperformed in her lifetime. She also wrote a memoir of her father and many letters and journals.

1865 - William Butler (WB) Yeats, Irish poet, Nobel Prize Laureate, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. (W.B. Yeats Reading His Own Verse. Uploaded by brychar66. Accessed June 13, 2009. (Note: Yeats made these recordings for the wireless in 1932, 1934 and the last on 28 October 1937 when he was 72. He died on January 28 1939. The photograph shows him sitting before the microphone in 1937.) William Butler Yeats Biography. Uploaded by Roberto Cano. Accessed June 13, 2017. Yeats: Ireland, and the Poetic Place. Considered his most popular poet. Uploaded by Her Aeolian Harp. Accessed June 13, 2013.)

1892 - Basil Rathbone, MC (born Philip St. John Basil Rathbone), English actor. He was a Shakespearean stage actor in UK, and went on to appear in more than 70 films, primarily costume dramas, swashbucklers and, occasionally, horror films. His most famous role was that of Sherlock Holmes in fourteen Hollywood films made between 1939 and 1946 and in a radio series. His later career included roles on Broadway, as well as self-ironic film and television work. He received a Tony Award in 1948 as Best Actor in a Play. He was nominated for two Academy Awards and was honoured with three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

1893 - Dorothy L. Sayers,  English crime writer and poet. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, which remain popular to this day. However, Sayers herself considered her translation of Dante's Divine Comedy to be her best work. She is also known for her plays, literary criticism, and essays.

1953 - Tim Allen (born Timothy Alan Dick), American actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Tim "The Toolman" Taylor on the ABC sitcom Home Improvement and Mike Baxter on the ABC/Fox sitcom Last Man Standing. Allen's other films include For Richer or Poorer, Jungle 2 Jungle, Galaxy Quest, Big Trouble, Christmas with the Kranks, The Shaggy Dog, Wild Hogs, Redbelt, and Crazy on the Outside.

1986 - Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen, American actresses, also known as the Olsen twins as a duo, are American fashion designers and former child actresses. The twins made their acting debut as infants playing Michelle Tanner on the television series Full House. At the age of six, Mary-Kate and Ashley began starring together in TV, film, and video projects, which continued to their teenage years. Through their company Dualstar, the Olsens joined the ranks of the wealthiest women in the entertainment industry at a young age.

Lefties:
Actor Tim Allen
Actress Mary-Kate Olsen

 

 

More birthdays and historical events today, 13 June - On This Day. 

Historical Events

1774 - Rhode Island, a U.S. state, bans the importation of slaves. It is the first British colony in North America to do so.

1852 - Robert Schumann's Manfred Overture is first performed in Weimar, Germany. (Schumann: Manfred-Ouvertüre ∙ hr-Sinfonieorchester ∙ Marek Janowski, conducting. Uploaded by hr-S Frankfurt Symphony Orchestra. Accessed June 13, 2018.)  

1934 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet for the first time in Venice, Italy. Hitler frequently quoted from his book Mein Kampf, and the bored Italian leader referred to him as "a silly little monkey."

1951 - Francis Poulenc's Stabat Mater, for a capella chorus, is first performed at the Strasbourg Festival, France. 

1967 - Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, serving until 1991.

1971 - The New York Times begins to publish the Pentagon Papers, exposing the flawed policy decisions leading to the Vietnam War.

1981 - Queen Elizabeth II is riding at the Trooping the Colour ceremony in London when a teenager fires six blank shots at her. She steadies her horse and carries on.   

1983 - Pioneer 10 spacecraft becomes the first artificial object to leave the solar system. Launched on March 2, 1972, it was sent out to gather electronic data in preparation for what was then thought the decades of burgeoning space travel and explorations. It was the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt, the first to make direct observations and take close-up shots of Jupiter. Its data was used in providing information for subsequent other projects including Voyager, Ulysses, Galileo, and Cassini.         



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