Birthdays
1876 - Pablo "Pau" Casals (born Pau Casals i Defilló), Spanish cellist, composer, and conductor. He is generally regarded as the pre-eminent cellist of the first half of the 20th century and one of the greatest cellists of all time. He made many recordings throughout his career of solo, chamber, and orchestral music, including some as conductor, but he is perhaps best remembered for the recordings of the Bach Cello Suites he made from 1936 to 1939. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy (though the ceremony was presided over by Lyndon B. Johnson).
1912 - Peggy Glanville-Hicks, Australian composer and music critic, the first Australian composer whose work was performed at an International Society for Contemporary Musicc (ISCM) Festival, in 1938. This was her Choral Suite. (Peggy Glanville-Hicks' (Concertino da Camera Finale, performed by Fortunata Trio with Li-Ly Chang. Uploaded by Musical Arts Int'l. Accessed Dec 29, 2018.)
1936 - Mary Tyler Moore, American actress, producer, and social advocate. She was widely known for her prominent television sitcom roles in The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Her film work included 1967's Thoroughly Modern Millie and 1980's Ordinary People, the latter earning Moore a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Moore was an advocate for animal rights, vegetarianism and diabetes prevention.
1938 - Jon Voight, American actor. He came to prominence in the late 1960s with his Oscar-nominated performance as Joe Buck, a would-be gigolo in Midnight Cowboy. During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder in Deliverance; a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor; and a penniless ex-boxing champion in the remake of The Champ. He is the winner of one Academy Award, having been nominated for four. He has also won four Golden Globe Awards and has been nominated for eleven. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2019. He is the father of actress Angelina Jolie and actor James Haven.
1947 - Ted Danson (born Edward Bridge Danson III), American actor and producer who played the lead character Sam Malone on the NBC sitcom Cheers, Jack Holden in the films Three Men and a Baby and Three Men and a Little Lady, and Dr. John Becker on the CBS sitcom Becker. Among others, he also starred in the CBS dramas CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: Cyber as D.B. Russell. He also plays recurring roles on HBO sitcoms. Danson has been nominated for 18 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning two; 11 Golden Globe Awards nominations, winning three; one Screen Actors Guild Award, and one American Comedy Award. A longtime activist in ocean conservation, he published his book, Oceana: Our Endangered Oceans and What We Can Do to Save Them, written with journalist Michael D'Orso.
1972 - Jude Law (born David Jude Heyworth Law), English actor. He has received multiple awards including a BAFTA Film Award as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and two Tony Awards. In 2007, he received an Honorary César and was named a knight of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. Law gained recognition for his role in Anthony Minghella's The Talented Mr. Ripley, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated for an Academy Award. He was praised for starring in the war film Cold Mountain, the drama Closer, and the romantic comedy The Holiday, gaining Academy Award and BAFTA nominations for the first of these. Law played roles all of which rank among his highest-grossing releases. He also had an accomplished career on stage, performing in West End and Broadway productions such as Les Parents terribles, Hamlet, and Anna Christie. He received Tony Award nominations for the first and second of these.
Leftie:
Cellist Pablo Casals
Pau Casals - El cant dels ocells / Song of the Birds
(Concert at the White House)
1170 - The murder is committed of Thomas a Becket (also Marcellus the Righteous), the Archbishop of Canterbury, on the order of Henry II. He is killed by four knights at an altar in Canterbury Cathedral, later to become a pilgrimage place, until Henry VIII had the remains burnt.
1916 - James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is published in New York. The semi-autobiographical book becomes one of his best-known works, despite being initially rejected for publication.
1940 - German incendiary bombs create a firestorm in the historic heart of London, at the height of its Blitz bombing campaign of the city. Miraculously, St. Paul's Cathedral survives.
1965 - Zubin Mehta conducts his first Metropolitan Opera performance.
1976 - The Spanish Government under King Juan Carlos issues a postage stamp in honour of Pablo Casals' centenary.
1997 - Hongkong begins a massive cull of all chickens within its territory to prevent the spread of avian flu to humans.
1998 - Khmer Rouge leaders apologise publicly for the deaths of millions of Cambodians during the "killing fields" atrocities of the 1970s.
Video Credit:
(Concert at the White House)
Historical Events
1170 - The murder is committed of Thomas a Becket (also Marcellus the Righteous), the Archbishop of Canterbury, on the order of Henry II. He is killed by four knights at an altar in Canterbury Cathedral, later to become a pilgrimage place, until Henry VIII had the remains burnt.
1916 - James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is published in New York. The semi-autobiographical book becomes one of his best-known works, despite being initially rejected for publication.
1940 - German incendiary bombs create a firestorm in the historic heart of London, at the height of its Blitz bombing campaign of the city. Miraculously, St. Paul's Cathedral survives.
1965 - Zubin Mehta conducts his first Metropolitan Opera performance.
1976 - The Spanish Government under King Juan Carlos issues a postage stamp in honour of Pablo Casals' centenary.
1997 - Hongkong begins a massive cull of all chickens within its territory to prevent the spread of avian flu to humans.
1998 - Khmer Rouge leaders apologise publicly for the deaths of millions of Cambodians during the "killing fields" atrocities of the 1970s.
Video Credit:
Pablo Casals performing at the White House. Youtube, uploaded by Juristchesus. Accessed Dec 29, 2014.
Resources:
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2. Britannica. www.britannica.com
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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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