Birthdays
1766 - John Dalton, FRS, (born Sept 5 or 6), English chemist, physicist, and meteorologist. He is best known for introducing the atomic theory into chemistry, and for his research into color blindness, sometimes referred to as Daltonism, in his honour. (Dalton's Atomic Theory. Uploaded by ChemSurvival. Accessed September 6, 2017.)
1836 - John Atkinson Grimshaw, Victorian-era artist, known for his city night-scenes and landscapes. Today, he is considered one of the great painters of the Victorian era, as well as one of the best and most accomplished nightscape and townscape artists of all time. His early paintings were signed "JAG", "J. A. Grimshaw", or "John Atkinson Grimshaw", though he finally settled on "Atkinson Grimshaw". (John A. Grimshaw's Paintings. YouTube, uploaded by genkou asanuma. J. Grimshaw Collection, uploaded by Sofie A. Accessed September 6, 2020.)
1877 - Charles Joseph "Buddy" Bolden, African American cornetist who was regarded by contemporaries as a key figure in the development of a New Orleans style of ragtime music, or "jass", which later came to be known as "jazz". Learn About the Inventor of Jazz with Wynton Marsalis. YouTube, uploaded by Amanpour and Company. Accessed September 6, 2022.)
1886 - Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, English poet, writer, and soldier, decorated for bravery on the Western Front. He became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry described the horrors of the trenches and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those in his view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his "Soldier's Declaration" of 1917, culminating in his admission to a military psychiatric hospital; this resulted in his forming a friendship with Wilfred Owen, who was greatly influenced by him. Sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume fictionalised autobiography, known as the "Sherston trilogy".
1892 - Sir Edward Victor Appleton GBE KCB FRS, English physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate and pioneer in radiophysics. He studied, and was also employed as a lab technician, at Bradford College from 1909 to 1911. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his seminal work proving the existence of the ionosphere during experiments carried out in 1924.
1943 - Richard J. Roberts, FRS, British biochemist, molecular biologist, and Nobel Laureate. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing.
1973 - Gregory Rusedski, British and Canadian former professional tennis player. He was the British No. 1 in 1997, 1999 and 2006, and reached the ATP ranking of world No. 4 for periods from 6-12 October 1997, and from 25 May to 21 June, 1998.
1974 - Tim Henman, OBE (born Timothy Henry Henman), British retired professional tennis player. A serve-and-volley style of tennis, he was the first male player from the UK since Roger Taylor in the 1970s to reach the semi-finals of the Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship. He never reached the finals of any Grand Slam but reached six Grand Slam semi-finals and won 15 career ATP titles (11 in singles and four in doubles). He was ranked British number 1 in 1996, and from 1999 to 2005, from which point he was succeeded by Andy Murray.
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1892 - Sir Edward Victor Appleton GBE KCB FRS, English physicist, Nobel Prize Laureate and pioneer in radiophysics. He studied, and was also employed as a lab technician, at Bradford College from 1909 to 1911. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his seminal work proving the existence of the ionosphere during experiments carried out in 1924.
1943 - Richard J. Roberts, FRS, British biochemist, molecular biologist, and Nobel Laureate. He was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Phillip Allen Sharp for the discovery of introns in eukaryotic DNA and the mechanism of gene-splicing.
1973 - Gregory Rusedski, British and Canadian former professional tennis player. He was the British No. 1 in 1997, 1999 and 2006, and reached the ATP ranking of world No. 4 for periods from 6-12 October 1997, and from 25 May to 21 June, 1998.
1974 - Tim Henman, OBE (born Timothy Henry Henman), British retired professional tennis player. A serve-and-volley style of tennis, he was the first male player from the UK since Roger Taylor in the 1970s to reach the semi-finals of the Wimbledon Men's Singles Championship. He never reached the finals of any Grand Slam but reached six Grand Slam semi-finals and won 15 career ATP titles (11 in singles and four in doubles). He was ranked British number 1 in 1996, and from 1999 to 2005, from which point he was succeeded by Andy Murray.
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More birthdays and historical events, September 6 - On This Day
Feature:
From the brilliant and imaginative work of John Atkinson Grimshaw, composer Frederick Delius created a heart-meltingly beautiful music, "The Walk to the Paradise Garden," a heart-warming music painting in scene 5 and 6 of his
opera A Village Romeo and Juliet.
1620 - The Pilgrims, a group of Puritans seeking religious freedom, sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower, to settle in North America. A Puritanical religious group, they had suffered in England and were looking for a place they could practise their faith. The day before they had set out in two ships, the Speedwell and Mayflower. The Speedwell leaked and had to dock in Devon at Plymouth. It's from Plymouth that the Mayflower finally leaves, landing on the east coast of North America. They seek out a suitable place to start a colony ending up in a location they also named Plymouth, in Massachusetts.
1651 - Charles II spends the night in an oak tree to avoid Cromwell's forces after losing the Battle of Worcester. After Cromwell's death in 1658, Charles II is invited to take the throne in the Restoration, 1660, in time for bubonic plague and the Great Fire of London.
1666 - The Great Fire of London is finally put out.
1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera La Clemenza di Tito, written for the coronation of Leopold II in Prague, is produced there on the eve of the ceremony.
1870 - Louisa Ann swain of Laramie, Wyoming, is recorded as the first woman in the U.S. to cast a vote.
1936 - The Tasmanian tiger Benjamin, said to be the last surviving member of the thylacine species, dies alone in his cage at Hobart Zoo in Australia.
1965 - West Pakistan is invaded by Indian troops, claiming that Pakistan had launched a covert operation over the ceasefire line as agreed to in 1949. Eventually, both sides agree to a UN-sponsored ceasefire after three weeks.
1966 - Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the white supremacist who introduced apartheid to South Africa, is stabbed to death by a parliamentary clerk during a Government meeting.
1997 - A million people and more on TV watch the funeral of Princess Diana at Westminster Abbey.
2005 - The California Legislature is the first in the U.S. to legalise same sex-marriage. Three weeks later Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoes the bill.
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Historical Events
1620 - The Pilgrims, a group of Puritans seeking religious freedom, sail from Plymouth, England, on the Mayflower, to settle in North America. A Puritanical religious group, they had suffered in England and were looking for a place they could practise their faith. The day before they had set out in two ships, the Speedwell and Mayflower. The Speedwell leaked and had to dock in Devon at Plymouth. It's from Plymouth that the Mayflower finally leaves, landing on the east coast of North America. They seek out a suitable place to start a colony ending up in a location they also named Plymouth, in Massachusetts.
1651 - Charles II spends the night in an oak tree to avoid Cromwell's forces after losing the Battle of Worcester. After Cromwell's death in 1658, Charles II is invited to take the throne in the Restoration, 1660, in time for bubonic plague and the Great Fire of London.
1666 - The Great Fire of London is finally put out.
1791 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera La Clemenza di Tito, written for the coronation of Leopold II in Prague, is produced there on the eve of the ceremony.
1870 - Louisa Ann swain of Laramie, Wyoming, is recorded as the first woman in the U.S. to cast a vote.
1936 - The Tasmanian tiger Benjamin, said to be the last surviving member of the thylacine species, dies alone in his cage at Hobart Zoo in Australia.
1965 - West Pakistan is invaded by Indian troops, claiming that Pakistan had launched a covert operation over the ceasefire line as agreed to in 1949. Eventually, both sides agree to a UN-sponsored ceasefire after three weeks.
1966 - Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the white supremacist who introduced apartheid to South Africa, is stabbed to death by a parliamentary clerk during a Government meeting.
1997 - A million people and more on TV watch the funeral of Princess Diana at Westminster Abbey.
2005 - The California Legislature is the first in the U.S. to legalise same sex-marriage. Three weeks later Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoes the bill.
Video Credit:
Frederick Delius, Walk to the Paradise Garden, Atkinson Grimshaw. YouTube, uploaded by Thomas Turner. Accessed Sept 6, 2011.
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 Timetables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
6. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org
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