home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
- Path: sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!PSUVM.BITNET!BCJ
- Message-ID: <C18-L%93012421380526@PSUVM.PSU.EDU>
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.c18-l
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:38:05 -0500
- Sender: 18th Century Interdisciplinary Discussion <C18-L@PSUVM.BITNET>
- From: BCJ@PSUVM.BITNET
- Subject: C18-L's Kalendar, January 25-31 (Reasons to celebrate!)
- Lines: 342
-
- *********************************************************************
- * *
- * THE KALENDAR - REASONS TO CELEBRATE *
- * *
- * Compiled for C18-L by Kevin Berland *
- * BCJ@PSUVM.BITNET *
- * BCJ@psuvm.psu.edu *
- *********************************************************************
- JANUARY 25:
-
- BIRTHDAYS: Hendrick van Avercamp, Dutch painter (1585); Robert
- Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist, physicist, founding member of England's
- Royal Society (1627-91); Thomas Tanner, English antiquary (1674);
- Pompeo Batoni, Italian painter (1708); Paul Whitehead, English poet
- (1709); Joseph Louis Lagrange, French mathematician, astronomer,
- developer of the calculus of variations (1736-1813); Stephanie Felicite
- du Crest de Saint Aubin, Comtesse de Genlis, French novelist &
- educator, governess of the children of the Duchesse de Chartres
- (1746-1830); Robert Burns, Scottish poet, of whom Emerson once said,
- "The Confession of Augsburg, the Declaration of Independence, the
- French Rights of Man, and the `Marseillaise' are not more weighty
- documents in the history of freedom than the songs of Burns" (1759-96);
- William Colgate, US soapmaker, philanthropist, founder of the
- eponymous upstate New York university (1783-1857);
-
- LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST: Arne Evenson Garborg,
- Norwegian novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, proponent of
- "Landsmaal," a Norwegian literary language based on peasant dialect
- (1851-1924); W(illiam) Somerset Maugham, English novelist, essayist,
- traveller, playwright, (1874-1965); Adeline Virgina (Stephen) Woolf,
- English novelist, critic, short-story writer, pioneer of stream of
- consciousness writing, feminist icon (1882-1941); Paul Henri Spaak,
- Belgian statesman, Premier, 1st president of U.N. General Assembly
- (1899-1972); Ilya Prigogine, Belgian chemist & theorist of contradictory
- biological processes (1917); Corazon Aquino, Philippine stateswoman,
- president (1933); Antonio dos Santos Ramalhao Eanes, Portuguese
- statesman, president (1935);
-
- DEATHS: George Selwym (1791); William Shield (1829);
-
- ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
-
- MISCELLANEA: Today Scotland celebrates Robbie Burns Day,
- commemorating the birth of the national poet of Scotland. In Wales, it's
- the Feast of St. Dwyn, Welsh patron saint of lovers -- we don't know if
- her feast-day is widely celebrated, but it should be! On this day in 1909,
- Richard Strauss's Elektra premiered at the Dresden Royal Opera
- House; in 1915, Leonard & Virginia Woolf took a lease on Hogarth
- House;
-
- *************************************************************************
- JANUARY 26
-
- BIRTHDAYS: Guillame Bude, aka Budaeus, French humanist scholar,
- responsible for the founding of the Bibliotheque Nationale (1468-1540);
- Giovanni Lanfranco, Italian painter (1582); Jean Baptiste Pigalle,
- French painter (1714); Claude Adrien Helvetius, French philosopher
- of sensationalism (1715-71); Lord George Sackville (1716); Jean
- Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, French soldier who became King Charles
- XIV of Sweden & Norway 1818-44 (1763-1844);
-
- LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST: Joseph Brown, US inventor
- of universal milling machine & various precision measuring instruments
- (1810-76); Mary Elizabeth Mapes Dodge, US children's writer, author
- of Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates (1831-1905); Kees van Dongen,
- French painter (1877); Sean McBride, Irish statesman, developer of
- nonsectarian principles that bear his name, 1974 Nobel Peace Prize,
- son of muse & revolutionary Maude Gonne (1904); Maria Augusta von
- Trapp, Austrian-born US musician, one of the Trapp Family Singers,
- notorious for their story as portrayed in The Sound of Music (1905);
- Edward Chester Babcock, better known as Jimmy Van Heusen, US
- songwriter: High Hopes, Swinging on a Star, & The Second Time
- Around (1913); Nicolae Ceausescu, Rumanian dictator (1918-90); Paul
- Newman, US actor, blue- eyed wonder, salad-dressing maven, auto
- racer (1925); Eartha Kitt, US singer, actress, still the best Catwoman
- ever (1928); Roger Vadim, French film director, "discoverer" of
- Brigitte Bardot, Jane Fonda (Barbarella), and other actresses, many of
- whom he married (1928); Jules Feiffer, US cartoonist, playwright,
- satirist, philosopher ("If Christ died for our dsins, dare we make his
- martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?"), critic ("Good
- swiping is an art in itseld") (1929); Samuel Chao Chung Ting, US
- physicist, codiscoverer of psi or J particle (1936); Angela Yvonne
- Davis, African-American sociologist, activist, black militant, author
- (1944); Eddy Van Halen, US rock guitarist (1957); Anita Baker, US
- singer & songwriter (1958); Wayne Gretsky, Canadian hockey player
- (1962)
-
- DEATHS: Henry Brigges (1630); Dr. E. Jenner (1823);
-
- ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: in 1699, the Treaty of Karlowitz was
- signed with Turkey, which ceded most of Hungary, Croatia, & Slavonia
- to Austria, while Venice & Poland also gained territory; in 1788, the
- First Fleet arrived at Port Sydney, Australia, carrying 717 convicts
- sentenced by English courts to transportation to the antipodes.
-
- MISCELLANEA: Today the Dominican Republic celebrates the birth
- of Juan Pablo Duarte, founder of the Republic & leader in the fight for
- freedom from Haiti; in India it's Basant Pancami, or Independence
- Day, celebrating the proclamation of the Republic in 1950. It's also the
- Feast of St. Timothy, patron saint of stomach patients. On this day in
- 1907, police were called in to quell rioting playgoers at the premiere of
- J.M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World at Dublin's Abbey
- Theatre; in 1911, Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier premiered more
- calmly at the Dresden Opera.
-
- *************************************************************************
-
- JANUARY 27:
-
- BIRTHDAYS: WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART, aka Johannes
- Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, Austrian composer,
- arguably the very greatest musical genius of all time (1756-91);
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, German philosopher (1775-
- 1854); Samuel Palmer, English painter (1805); Giovanni Prati, Italian
- poet & patriot (1814-84); Eugene Viollet-le-Duc, French architect
- (1814); Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll,
- English don, deviser of fiendish math puzzles, photographer, author of
- Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, the Hunting of the
- Snark, Sylvie and Bruno (1832-98); Leopold von Sacher-Masoch,
- Austrian novelist, short-story writer & dramatist; the term "masochism"
- came into being to describe the things people feel driven to do in his
- novels (1836-95); Kaiser Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany & King of
- Prussia 1888-1918 (1859-1941); Jerome Kern, US composer & lyricist
- (1885-1945); Donna Mullinger, better known as Donna Reed, US film
- actress, later on tv's quintessential 50s megahousewife (1921); Ingrid
- Thulin, Swedish actress, appeared in Ingmar Bergman's Wild
- Strawberries (1929); Mordecai Richler, Canadian novelist, critic, wit: "If
- you don't count some of Jehovah's injunctions, there are no humourists
- in the Bible" (1931); Troy Donahue, US actor (1937); Mairead
- Corrigan, Irish pacifist, founder of the Northern Ireland Peace
- Movement, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize (1944).
-
- DEATHS: Sir William Temple (1699); Thomas Woolston (1733);
- Admiral Lord Hood (1816)
-
- ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: in 1307, Dante Alighieri was expelled
- from Florence; in 1639, Robert Burton was buried in Christ Church
- Cathedral, Oxford;
-
- MISCELLANEA: Today is the Feast of St. Devote, the patron saint of
- Monaco. Practically everywhere, people of discernment and culture
- celebrate Mozart's birthday. On this day in 1967, 3 US astronauts died
- in the Apollo fire; on the same day in 1967, representatives of 60 nations
- (including the US & USSR) sign a UN treaty providing for the peaceful
- uses of outer space & banning weapons of mass destruction in space.
-
- *************************************************************************
- JANUARY 28:
-
- BIRTHDAYS: Henry VII, King of England (1457-1509); Pope
- Clement IX, pope 1667-69, composer of the 1st comic opera (1600-69);
- Giovanni Borelli, Italian physiologist, physicist, mathematician,
- astronomer (1608-79); John Baskerville, English printer (1706);
- Frederick VI, King of Denmark 1808-39 & of Norway 1808-14 (1768-
- 1839);
-
- LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST: Captain Maclure, English
- explorer of the Arctic (1807); Alexander Mackenzie, 1st Liberal Prime
- Minister of Canada (1822-92); Charles George Gordon, aka "Chinese
- Gordon" or "Gordon Pasha," British officer sent to relieve Khartoum
- under seige by the Mahdi, and killed when the city fell (1833-85);
- Henry Morton Stanley, Anglo-American journalist best known for his
- expedition in search of explorer David Livingstone (1841-1904); Jose
- Marti, Cuban poet and patriot, perhaps best known for his poem
- "Guantanamera," sung by the Weavers and washed out nearly beyond
- recognition by the Sandpipers in the early 1960s (1853-95); William
- Seward Burroughs, US inventor, developed 1st recording adding
- machine (1855-98); Sidonie Gabriella Colette, best known by the last of
- these names alone, French novelist (1873-1954); Auguste Piccard,
- Swiss physicist & balloonist, discoverer of "cosmic rays" (1884-1962);
- Artur Rubenstein, Polish-born US pianist (1887-1982); Jackson Pollock,
- US abstract-expressionist painter (1912-56); Claes Oldenburg, US
- sculptor (1929); Susan Sontag, US philosopher, critic, novelist, essayist
- (1933); Alan Alda, US actor (1936); Mikhail Baryshnikov, Russian-born
- US emigre ballet dancer (1948);
-
- DEATHS: Charlemagne (814); King Henry VIII of England (1547);
- Sir Francis Drake (1596); Sir Thomas Bodley (1612); Peter the Great
- of Russia (1725); Esther Johnson, aka Stella (1728); J.B. Danville
- (1728); Mlle. Clairon (1803);
-
- ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: in 1647, Gilbert Shakespeare, William's
- brother, was buried at Stratford; in 1770, the administration of Lord
- North began; in 1807, London's Pall Mall was lighted by gas, the 1st city
- street so illuminated;
-
- MISCELLANEA: Today is Democracy Day in Rwanda. It is also the
- Feast of St. Peter Nolasco, patron saint of midwifes, and the Feast of St.
- Thomas Aquinas, the Seraphic Doctor, patron saint of Napoli, Italy, and
- of all colleges, schools, and universities, and invoked against
- thunderstorms. On this day in 1939, Irish poet William Butler Yeats
- died -- Horseman, pass by; in 1944, Leonard Bernstein conducted the
- premiere of his 1st symphony, Jeremiah, in Pittsburgh;
-
- *************************************************************************
- JANUARY 29:
-
- BIRTHDAYS: Emmanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist, mystic,
- philosopher, theologian, biblical interpreter, sometime influence on
- William Blake (1688-72); Thomas Paine, American colonial political
- philosopher, patriot, pamphleteer, son of a Quaker corsetmaker, author
- of Common Sense and The Rights of Man (1737-1809); Christian VII,
- King of Denmark & Norway 1766-1808 (1749-1808); William Sharpe,
- English line-engraver (1749); Henry "Light-Horse Harry" Lee,
- American Revolutionary cavalry officer, governor of Virginia (1759-
- 1818); Albert Gallatin, US farmer, banker, politician, diplomat (1761-
- 1849); Friedrich Mohs, German mineralogist, deviser of the Mohs scale
- of hardness (1773-1839);
-
- LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST: Edward Williams Morley, US
- physicist, codeveloper of the test of gravitational effect on light rays
- used to test Einstein's theories (1838-1923); William McKinley, US
- lawyer, politician, 25th president, assassinated (1843-1901); Whitney
- Warren, US architect: New York's Grand Central Terminal & the Ritz-
- Carlton hotel, Belgium's Louvain Library (1864-1943); Romain Rolland,
- French novelist, dramatist, biographer, critic, 1914 Nobel Laureate
- (1866-1944):; Vincente Blasco Ibanez, Spanish novelist (1867-1928);
- J.D. Rockefeller, Jr., US industrialist, philanthropist (1874-1960);
- William Claude Dukenfield, better known as W.C. Fields, US juggler,
- playwright, practical philosopher ("A thing worth having is a thing
- worth cheating for"), comic genius (1880-1946); Rieinhard Johannes
- Sorge, German expressionist playwright (1892-1916); Barnett Newman,
- US abstract expressionist painter (1905-70); Victor Mature, US screen
- actor (1916); Paddy Chayevsky, US novelist, playwright , screen-writer
- (1923); Peter Voulkos, US sculptor (1924); Katherine Ross, US actress
- (1943); Greg Louganis, US Olympic diver (1960);
-
- DEATHS: Bishop Sanderson (1663); Johann Theophilus Fichte (1814);
- King George III of England (1820);
-
- ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: in 1635, Cardinal Richelieu founded
- the Academie Francaise; in 1728, the 1st performance of John Gay's
- The Beggar's Opera took place at Lincoln's Inn's Fields, and the play
- ran for 63 nights;
-
- MISCELLANEA: Today is Martyr's Day in Nepal. On this day in 1845,
- Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven" 1st appeared in the New York
- Evening Mirror; in 1914, the Academy of International Law was
- established at the Hague; in 1932, George Gershwin's Second
- Rhapsody for Piano & Orchestra premiered in Boston; in 1956, H.L.
- Mencken died in Baltimore at the age of 75 -- he had written,"The
- older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings
- wisdom";
-
- *************************************************************************
- JANUARY 30:
-
- BIRTHDAYS: Charles Rollin, French historian of ancient times (1661);
- Balthasar Neumann, German architect (1687); Bernardo Bellotto,
- Italian painter (1720);
-
- LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST: Walter Savage Landor,
- English poet, writer, controversialist (1775-1864); Charles Lord
- Metcalfe, English statesman, Governor General of Canada (1785);
- Walter J. Damrosch, German-born US compuser, conductor, led 1st
- symphony to be broadcast by radio in 1925 (1862-1950); Franklin
- Delano Roosevelt, US politician, statesman, 32nd president , who once
- wrote to Winston Churchill, "It's fun being in the same decade with
- you" (1882-1945); Boris III, King of Bulgaria 1918-43 (1894-1943); Saul
- Alinsky, US social activist (1909-72); Barbara Tuchman, US historian,
- who, reviewing the 1980 crop of presidential candidates, exclaimed,
- "God! The country that produced George Washington has got this
- collection of crumb-bums!" (1912); Gene Hackman, US actor (1931);
- Vanessa Redgrave, English actress (1937); Boris Spassky, Russian
- chess master, 1969-72 world chess champion (1937); Eleanor Cutri
- Smeal, US feminist leader (1939); Phil Collins, English rock singer,
- drummer, actor (1949);
-
- DEATHS: William Chillingworth (1644); King Charles I of England
- (1649); Dr. John Robinson (1805);
-
- ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: in 1648, the 30 Years' War (between
- Spain & the Netherlands) ended; in 1649, Charles I, King of England,
- was decapitated by order of the Parliamentary forces -- a date
- commemorated by public fasting and sermons throughout Britain
- during most of the 18th century; in 1815, the US Library of Congress
- acquired Thomas Jefferson's library (6,457 volumes), re-establishing
- the collection destroyed by fire in the War of 1812;
-
- MISCELLANEA: Today is Cavatee in Mauritius. On this day in 1889,
- the Archduke Rudolph, heir to the throne of Austria, and his mistress,
- Marie Vetsera, committed suicide at Meyerling; in 1933 the Lone
- Ranger made his radio debut; in 1948, Mahatma Gandhi was
- assassinated; in 1956, Newsweek asks Robert Frost about writing free
- verse, and he replied irritably, "I'd just as soon play tennis without a
- net";
-
- *************************************************************************
- JANUARY 31:
-
- BIRTHDAYS: Robert Morris, US financier, revolutionary (1734-1806);
- Michael-Guillame-Jean de Crevecouer, aka Hector Saint-John de
- Crevecouer, aka J. Hector St. John, aka Agricola, French-American
- writer, naturalist (1735-1813); Gouverneur Morris, US revolutionary
- leader, Minister of Finance, statesman (1752-1816);
-
- LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST: Charles Green, English
- balloonist (1785-1870); Franz Peter Schubert, Austrian composer (1797-
- 1828); William Hepburn Russell, US entrepreneur, founder of the
- Pony Express (1812-72); Victor-Henri Rochefort, Marquis de
- Rochefort-Lucay, French journalist, politician, & polemicist (1830-1913);
- Rudolph Wurlitzer, US manufacturer (1831-1914); Zane Gray, US
- cowboy novelist (1872-1939); Max Pechstein, German painter (1881);
- Edward Israel Iskowitz, better known as Eddy Cantor, US comedian,
- googly-eyed song & dance man (1892-1964); Tallulah Brockman
- Bankhead, US actress, wit ("The less I behave like Whistler's mother
- the night before, the more I look like her the morning after." "I'm as
- pure as the driven slush." "If I had to live my life again, I'd make the
- same mistakes, only sooner") -- what a woman! (1903-68); John Henry
- O'Hara, US novelist, short-story writer, born in Pottsville, Pennsylvania
- in 1905 -- his study was moved and rebuilt in the Special Collections
- section of Penn State's Pattee Library (1905-70); Arnold Raymond
- Cream, better known as Jersey Joe Walcott , US boxer (1914); Bobby
- Hackett, US jazz cornet player (1915-76); Thomas Merton, US poet,
- autobiographer, Trappist monk (1915); Rudolf Ludwig Mossbauer,
- German physicist, discoverer of the eponymous effect (1919); Jackie
- Roosevelt Robinson, US athlete, first black baseball player in the major
- leagues with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, civil-rights activist (1919-
- 72); Alfredo Arnold Cocozza, better known as Mario Lanza, US
- operatic tenor, star of the silver screen (1921-59); Carol Channing, US
- actress, singer, mouth, voice (1923); Joanne La Cock, better known as
- Joanne Dru, US actress (1923); Norman Mailer, US novelist, journalist,
- narcissist (1923); Jean Simmons, English actress (1929); James
- Franciscus, US actor (1934); Suzanne Pleshette, US actress (1937);
- Lynn Nolan Ryan, US baseball player (1947)'
-
- DEATHS: Charles Edward Stuart, the "Young Pretender" (1788);
- Claire Clairon (1803);
-
- ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: in 1788, Charles Edward Stuart, the
- Young Pretender or Bonnie Prince Charlie, depending on your
- historical bias, died in Florence; in 1803, beacons were lit at Hume
- Castle, Berwickshire, by mistake, giving rise to other beacons and
- rumours of an imminent French invasion;
-
- MISCELLANEA: Today is Independence Day in Nauru. On this day
- in 1901 Chekhov's Three Sisters, directed by Konstantin Stanislavski
- and featuring Olga Kniper (Mrs. Chekov), opened at the Moscow Arts
- Theatre to a mixed reception; in 1973, Norman Mailer sent out 5000
- invitations to a $50-a-plate birthday dinner at New York's Four Seasons
- Hotel, the money supposed to finance a "democratic secret police", but
- only 500 people attended.
-