July 23 Dateline

Birthdays

1796 - Franz Berwald,  Swedish Romantic composer and orthopedic surgeon (I'm sharing a favourite Piano Concerto in D-major by Berwald. YouTube, uploaded by KuhlauDilfeng2. Accessed July 23, 2018.)

1823 - Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore, English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House, his narrative poem about an ideal happy marriage. As a young man, Patmore found employment in the British Museum. Upon the publication of his first book of poems in 1844, he became acquainted with members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Patmore is today one of the least-known but best-regarded Victorian poets.

1888 - Raymond Thornton Chandler, American-British novelist and screenwriter. At the age of forty-four, he became a detective fiction writer. His first novel, The Big Sleep, was published in 1939. In addition to his short stories, Chandler published seven novels during his lifetime; have been made into motion pictures. Three of Chandler's novels have been regarded as masterpieces: Farewell, My Lovely, The Little Sister, and The Long Goodbye. The Long Goodbye was praised in an anthology of American crime stories as "arguably the first book since Hammett's The Glass Key, ... to qualify as a serious and significant mainstream novel that just happened to possess elements of mystery".

1938 - Romy Schneider (born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach), German-French actress. She began her career in the German Heimatfilm genre in the early 1950s when she was 15. From 1955 to 1957, she played the central character of Empress Elisabeth of Austria in the Austrian Sissi  trilogy, and later reprised the role in a more mature version in Visconti's Ludwig. The trilogy was also condensed into a popular film "Forever My Love" with  Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, and Vilma Degischer. Schneider moved to France, where she made successful films with most notable film directors of the era.  A musical about Schneider, Romy – Die Welt aus Gold (Romy – The Golden World) was premiered in 2009 at the Theater Heilbronn. The film 3 Days in Quiberon by Emily Atef describes a 1981 episode in Schneider's life in the French town of Quiberon. On 23 September 2020, Google celebrated her 82nd birthday with a Google Doodle in Germany, France, Austria, Iceland and Ukraine. (Sissi-Forever my love (English version) part one; part two.) YouTube, uploaded by LuckyStarat. Accessed July 23, 2018.)   

1961 - Woody Tracy Harrelson, Actor, American actor and playwright. He first became known for his role as bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers, for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series from a total of five nominations. He has received three Academy Award nominations: Best Actor for The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) and Best Supporting Actor for The Messenger and for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Marty Hart in the first season of the HBO crime anthology series True Detective.

1989 - Daniel Jacob Radcliffe, English actor and producer. He is known for playing the titular protagonist in the Harry Potter film series, based on the novels by J. K. Rowling. During this period, Radcliffe became one of the highest-paid actors in the world, gained worldwide fame, and received many accolades for his performances in the series. Following the success of the Harry Potter films, Radcliffe portrayed lawyer Arthur Kipps in the horror film The Woman in Black; the poet Allen Ginsberg in the film Kill Your Darlings; Victor Frankenstein's assistant, Igor, in the science fiction fantasy Victor Frankenstein; and more ... e.g., FBI agent Nate Foster in the critically acclaimed thriller Imperium. Radcliffe began to branch out to stage acting in 2007, and in the 2011 Broadway revival of the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. Since 2018, Radcliffe has starred in the TBS anthology television series Miracle Workers.

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More birthdays and historical events today, 23 July - On This Day.

Historical Events

1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Stewart) lands in Scotland at Eriksay with only eight supporters. The army he raises is defeated by English forces at the Battle of Culloden on April 16, 1746.  He finally returned to France on September 26, evading capture.

1903 - The Ford Motor Company of Detroit sells its first car, the Ford Model A, designed by Henry Ford.

1952 - Military leaders overthrow King Farouk of Egypt in a bloodless coup.

2004 - The rebuilt Stari Most (Old Bridge)  in Mostar is opened 11 years after being destroyed. It was built in 1566 at the height of the Ottoman Empire. On November 9, 1993, it collapsed after being shelled by Bosnian Croat forces during the Bosnia-Herzegovina conflict.



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5. Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
6. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org



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