Famous Birthdays
1749 - Dominico Cimarosa, Italian opera composer of the Neapolitan school and of the Classical period. He wrote more than eighty operas, the best known of which is Il matrimonio segreto. Most of his operas are comedies. He also wrote instrumental works and church music. He was principally based in Naples but spent some of his career in various other parts of Italy, composing for the opera houses of Rome, Venice, Florence. He was engaged by the empress of Russia Catherine the Great as her court composer and conductor between 1787 and 1791. In his later years, returning to Naples, he backed the losing side in the struggle to overthrow the monarchy there, and was imprisoned and then exiled. (Cimarosa Oboe Concerto, conducted by Jean Thorel, François Leleux (oboist), City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong. Uploaded by CCOHK. Accessed December 17, 2016.)
1778 - Sir Humphry Davy, English scientist. He discovered the anaesthetic properties of laughing gas, and the elements potassium,sodium, barium, strontium, magnesium and calcium. He is famous for devising safety lamps for use in mining. (Humphry Davy, uploaded by Ananas Science. Accessed Dec 17, 2018; Davy's Lamp - Periodic Table of Videos, uploaded by Periodic Videos. Accessed Dec 17, 2018)
1862 - Moriz Rosenthal, Polish virtuoso pianist and composer. He was an outstanding pupil of Franz Liszt and a friend and colleague of some of the greatest musicians of his age, including Johannes Brahms, Johann Strauss, Anton Rubinstein, Hans von Bülow, Camille Saint-Saëns, Jules Massenet and Isaac Albéniz. (Moriz Rosenthal (1862-1946): Papillons ("Butterflies". YouTube, uploaded by d60944. Accessed December 17, 2014.)
1936 - Tommy Steele (Sir Thomas Hicks, OBE), English entertainer, songwriter, author, an sculptor. He is regarded as Britain's first teen idol and rock and roll star. He reached number one with "Singing the Blues" in 1957, and The Tommy Steele Story was the first album by a UK act to reach number one in his native country. Steele's film credits include Half a Sixpence, The Happiest Millionaire and Finian's Rainbow (musical). In 2012, Steele was among the cultural icons selected by pop-artist Sir Peter Blake to appear in "Vintage Blake", a montage to celebrate Blake's 80th birthday.
1936 - Pope Francis, 266th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church (born Jorge Mario Bergoglio), the 266th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. Francis is the first Jesuit pope, the first from the Americas (from Buenos Aires, Argentina), the first from the Southern Hemisphere, and the first pope from outside Europe since the Syrian Gregory III, who reigned in the 8th century.
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More birthdays and historical events, December 17 - On This Day
Historical Events
1538 - King Henry VIII is excommunicated by Pope Paul III after declaring himself head of the Church of England.
1843 - A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, is published, to critical acclaim.(A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens - Listen and Read. Uploaded by DingLabs. Accessed December 17, 2016)
1865 - Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 8, "Unfinished," is posthumously performed in its first performance, in Vienna, with Johann Herbeck conducting.
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Franz Schubert Symphony No.8 "Unfinished" D 759, conducted by Leonard Bernstein. Accessed December 17, 2021.
1903 - Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright make aviation history by managing the first successful flight in a heavier0than-air, and also mechanically propelled airplane, in North Carolina, at Kitty Hawk.
1989 - The Simpsons, a spin-off from The Tracey Ullman Show, premieres on U.S. Television.
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1903 - Brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright make aviation history by managing the first successful flight in a heavier0than-air, and also mechanically propelled airplane, in North Carolina, at Kitty Hawk.
1989 - The Simpsons, a spin-off from The Tracey Ullman Show, premieres on U.S. Television.
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
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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