Birthdays
1304 - Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), Italian poet. Francesco Petrarca, commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was a scholar and poet of Renaissance Italy who was one of the earliest humanists. His rediscovery of Cicero's letters is often credited with inventing the 14th-century Renaissance. Petrarch is often considered the founder of Humanism. (Petrarch and the Sonnet. Uploaded by SixMinuteScholar. Accessed July 20, 2014.)
1797 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki KCMG CB FRS FRGS, also known as Paul Edmund de Strzelecki, Polish explorer, geologist and philanthrope (British subject in 1845.) He is noted for his contributions to the exploration of Australia, particularly the Snowy Mountains and Tasmania as well as climbing and naming the highest mountain on the continent – Mount Kosciuszko (2,228 m). (Australian Dictionary of Biogrpahy)
1919 - Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG ONZ KBE, New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt. (Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay climb Everest - 1953 archive video. Uploaded by The Guadian. Accessed July 20, 2015. Sir Edmund Hillary - The Race for Everest. Uploaded by dim edin. Accessed July 20, 2018.)
1924 - Robert D. Maurer, American industrial physicist, noted for his leadership in the invention of the optical fiber. He holds 16 patents, including: (1) US Patent 3,659,915: Fused Silica Optical Waveguide; Method of Producing Optical Waveguide Fibers, and (2) US Patent 3,711,262: Optical Fibers.
1927 - Michael Andreas Gielen, Austrian conductor and composer who promoted contemporary music in opera and concert. (Michael Gielen: Beethoven Symphonies Box Nos. 1-9. YouTube, uploaded by EuroArtsChannel. Accessed July 20, 2018.)
1938 - Dame Diana Rigg, CBE, DBE (born Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg), English actress, famous for her role as Emma Peel in the hit spy television show The Avengers, and as the Bond girl who becomes Mrs. James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. She also played as Olenna Tyrell in Game of Thrones (2013–17). Her career in theatre, includes: playing the title role in Medea, in London and New York, for which she won the 1994 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play. She was made a CBE in 1988 and a Dame in 1994 for services to drama. Diana Rigg made her professional stage debut in 1957 in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1959. She made her Broadway debut in the 1971 production of Abelard & Heloise. Her film roles include Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream; Countess Teresa di Vicenzo, wife of James Bond, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service; more... She won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for the BBC miniseries Mother Love, and an Emmy Award for her role as Mrs. Danvers in an adaptation of Rebecca. Her other television credits include Doctor Who episode "The Crimson Horror" with her daughter, Rachael Stirling. (1970s Diana Rigg BBC Parkinson interviews. So clever and intelligent, a favourite interviewee ever. Uploaded by TaggleElgate. Accessed July 20, 2019.)
1938 - Natalie Wood (born born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko), Russian-American actress. She received three Oscar nominations before she was 25. She began acting in films at age 4 and was given a co-starring role at age 8 in the popular Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street. As a teenager, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Rebel Without a Cause, followed by The Searchers. Wood starred in the musical films West Side Story and Gypsy, and received nominations for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her Splendor in the Grass and Love with the Proper Stranger. Her career continued with films such as Sex and the Single Girl, Inside Daisy Clover, and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. She drowned off Catalina Island on November 29, 1981, at age 43. The events surrounding her death have been explained by conflicting witness statements.
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More birthdays today, 20 July - On This Day.
Feature:
Maestro Michael Gielen: Conducts Beethoven Symphonies.
1810 - Independence Day of Colombia. On this day in 1810, Simon Bolivar defied Spain and declared Colombia's independence. Full independence was gained three years later, in 1813.
1944 - Colonel Claus Stauffenberg takes a bomb in a briefcase to a meeting in Hitler's bunker. minutes later, the bomb goes off, but Hitler survives (this is the third assassination attempt on the German dictator's life), while four others die.
1960 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes Prime Minister of Ceylon, the world's first elected female head of government. She entered politics when her husband, Prime minister Solomon Bandaranaike was assassinated in 1959.
1969 - Neil Armstrong walks on the moon, the first man to do so. On July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 Mission blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. on board were Commander Neil Armstrong, Colonel Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Lieutenant Colonel Michael Collins. This day on July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 began to orbit the Moon. Collins is left behind as Armstrong and Aldrin went through from Columbia (the command module), to Eagle (the landing module). They then undocked and began their descent. At 10:56:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Col. Neil Armstrong, equipped with a television camera, stepped from the bottom rung of the Eagle's ladder onto the surface onto the moon surface in the Sea of Tranquility, saying the now-famous words, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." People on planet Earth watched with much anxiety.
1989 - After political unrest in Burma (now Myanmar), military rulers place the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi under phone arrest.
The Apollo 11 Mission
Resources:
Feature:
Maestro Michael Gielen: Conducts Beethoven Symphonies.
Historical Events
1810 - Independence Day of Colombia. On this day in 1810, Simon Bolivar defied Spain and declared Colombia's independence. Full independence was gained three years later, in 1813.
1944 - Colonel Claus Stauffenberg takes a bomb in a briefcase to a meeting in Hitler's bunker. minutes later, the bomb goes off, but Hitler survives (this is the third assassination attempt on the German dictator's life), while four others die.
1960 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike becomes Prime Minister of Ceylon, the world's first elected female head of government. She entered politics when her husband, Prime minister Solomon Bandaranaike was assassinated in 1959.
1969 - Neil Armstrong walks on the moon, the first man to do so. On July 16, 1969, the Apollo 11 Mission blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. on board were Commander Neil Armstrong, Colonel Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Lieutenant Colonel Michael Collins. This day on July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 began to orbit the Moon. Collins is left behind as Armstrong and Aldrin went through from Columbia (the command module), to Eagle (the landing module). They then undocked and began their descent. At 10:56:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Col. Neil Armstrong, equipped with a television camera, stepped from the bottom rung of the Eagle's ladder onto the surface onto the moon surface in the Sea of Tranquility, saying the now-famous words, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." People on planet Earth watched with much anxiety.
1989 - After political unrest in Burma (now Myanmar), military rulers place the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi under phone arrest.
The Apollo 11 Mission
The Apollo 11 crew portrait. Left to right are Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin.
Image Source: NASA/Public Domain
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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