September 4 Dateline

Birthdays

1768 - François-Auguste-René, Viscomte de Chateaubriand, French author and diplomat, one of his country’s first Romantic writers. He was the preeminent literary figure in France in the early 19th century and had a profound influence on the youth of his day.

1824 - Anton Bruckner, Austrian Romantic Composer, famous for his Seventh Symphony and Te Deum. (video: Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 conducted by Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra. YouTube, uploaded by Bohemian Brass. Accessed September 4, 2018.)

1892 - Darius Milhaud, French Composer, member of "Les Six" group of French composers.(Video: Pianists Martha Argerich and Evgeny Kissin interpret Milhaud's "Scaramouche."  YouTube, uploaded by Facconti. Accessed September 4, 2018)

1917 - Henry Ford II, American Car manufacturer, sometimes known as "HF2" or "Hank the Deuce", was a businessman in the automotive industry. He was the eldest son of Edsel Ford and eldest grandson of Henry Ford.

1928 - Dick York (born Richard Allen York), American radio, stage, film, and television Actor. He is best remembered for his role as the first Darrin Stephens on the ABC fantasy sitcom Bewitched. His best-known motion-picture role was as teacher Bertram Cates in the film Inherit the Wind.

1931 - Mitzi Gaynor (born Francesca Marlene de Czanyi von Gerber), American Actress, Singer, and Dancer. Her notable films include There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), which featured Irving Berlin's music and also starred Ethel Merman, Dan Dailey, Marilyn Monroe, Donald O'Connor, and Johnnie Ray; and South Pacific, the 1958 motion picture adaptation of the stage musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein.('I'm in Love with a Wonderful Guy' from another Rodgers & Hammerstein musical masterpiece South Pacific. Uploaded by Project Unleash. Accessed September 4, 2014.)

1937 - Dawn Fraser, AC, MBE, Australian freestyle champion Swimmer and former Politician. She is one of only three swimmers to have won the same Olympic individual event three times – in her case the women's 100-metre freestyle. Within Australia, she is often known for her controversial behaviour as much as for her athletic ability.

1969 - Noah George Taylor, British-Australian Actor. He is best known for his roles as teenage David Helfgott in Shine, Locke in the HBO series Game of Thrones, Darby Sabini in the BBC One series Peaky Blinders, Mr. Bucket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Danny in the Australian cult film He Died with a Felafel in His Hand. Taylor also starred as Adolf Hitler in Max and Preacher. 

1980 - David Garrett (born David Christian Bongartz), German classical and crossover violinist and recording artist. He's a violin virtuoso that blur the lines between Mozart and Metallica. At 13 y.o., Garrett had recorded two full-length CDs of violin music and was regular fixture on TV across Europe. He studied Musicology and composition at the Juilliard School of Music, and composed a fugue in the style of JS Bach which won the school's 2003 composition prize. Among his lauded instructors was the legendary violinist Itzhak Perlmann. His first proper album from 2007, Free, recording set out his stall as a crossover artist, tackling repertoire as diverse as Paganini's Caprice No. 24 to Metallica's 'Nothing Else Matters'. (David Garrett & Filamonica della Scala - Max Bruch Violin Concer to No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26. YouTube, uploaded by Wiola J. Accessed September 4, 2018.)

Leftie:
Henry Ford II, Automobile manufacturer

 

More birthdays and historical events, September 4 - On This Day

 

Historical Events

476 - The Western Roman Empire falls when Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor, is forced to abdicate by eastern rival Odoacer, who proclaims himself King of Italy. In turn, he is later murdered by the real king, Theodoric the Great.

1781 - Los Angeles City in California is founded as El pueblo de Nuestra Senora La Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula - the City of Our Lady, the queen of the Angels of the Little Portion - by a group of 44 Spanish settlers.

1886 - The wars waged by white settlers against Native Americans almost come to an end in the U.S., with the surrender of Geronimo, Apache leader and shaman, in Arizona. He dies a prisoner of war.

1888 - George Eastman receives a patent for a camera that uses roll film and registers the trademark Kodak. Before that, cameras were the size of a microwave oven and needed chemicals, glass plates, and tanks to take a photo.  

1951 - The first live transcontinental television broadcast of President Harry Truman's address, takes place in San Francisco, California, from the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference.

1972 - American swimmer Mark Spitz wins his seventh gold medal at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany - and broke world record of each one. 

1985 -The first film of the ruined Titanic ship is released, three days after a joint American-French expedition locates its wreckage, 560 miles (900 km) off Newfoundland off the coast of Canada.




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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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