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April 19 Dateline

Birthdays


1832 - Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, writer, Nobel laureate, and one of the leading Spanish dramatists of the last quarter of the 19th century. He was awarded the 1904 Nobel Prize for Literature "in recognition of the numerous and brilliant compositions which, in an individual and original manner, have revived the great traditions of the Spanish drama".
 
1892 - Germaine Tailleferre (born Marcelle Germaine Taillefesse), French composer, the only woman in the French group of composers known as "Les Six".  Her work includes serious concert compositions, film and television score, arrangements, harmonisations or transcriptions. She was accompanist for a children's music and movement class at the École alsacienne, a private school in Paris. During the last period of her life, she concentrated mainly on smaller forms due to increasing problems with arthritis in her hands. She nevertheless produced the Sonate champêtre for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and piano; the Sonata for Two Pianos; and Chorale and Variations for Two Pianos or Orchestra. Her last major work was the Concerto de la fidelité for coloratura soprano and orchestra, premièred at the Paris Opera the year before her death.

1933 - Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer), American film, theater, and television actress. She was also a singer and nightclub entertainer as well as one of the early Playboy Playmates. She was a major Hollywood sex symbol during the 1950s and early 1960ss while under contract at 20th Century Fox. Mansfield everal box-office successes and won a Theatre World Award and a Golden Globe. Among other major movie oerformances, she enjoyed success in the role of fictional actress Rita Marlowe, both in the 1955–1956 Broadway version and the 1957 film version of Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?.
 
1935 - Dudley Stuart John Moore, CBE, English actor, comedian, musician, and composer. Moore He was one of the four writer-performers in the comedy revue Beyond the Fringe from 1960 that created a boom in satiric comedy, and with one member of that team, Peter Cook, collaborated on the BBC television series Not Only... But Also. His career as a comedy film actor was marked by hit Hollywood films, particularly Foul Play, 10 and Arthur. For Arthur, Moore was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won a Golden Globe Award. He received a second Golden Globe for his performance in Micki & Maude.
 
1947 - Murray Perahia, KBE, American pianist and conductor. He is widely considered as one of the greatest living pianists. He was the first North American pianist to win the Leeds International Piano Competition, in 1972. Known as a leading interpreter of Bach, Handel, Scarlatti, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schumann, among other composers, Perahia has won numerous awards, including three Grammy Awards from a total of 18 nominations, and 9 Gramophone Awards in addition to its first and only "Piano Award".

1979 - Kate Garry Hudson, American actress, author, and fashion entrepreneur. She rose to prominence for her performance in the film Almost Famous, for which she won a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. For her film Music, she received her second Golden Globe nomination. Hudson co-founded the fitness brand and membership program, Fabletics, operated by JustFab. In 2016, Hudson released her first book, Pretty Happy: Healthy Ways to Love Your Body, and in 2017, she released her second book, Pretty Fun: Creating and Celebrating a Lifetime of Tradition.

1987 - Maria Yuryevna Sharapova, Russian former professional tennis player. She played under the banner of Russia with the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) but has lived in and been a United States permanent resident since 1994. She had been ranked world No. 1 in singles by the WTA on five separate occasions, for a total of 21 weeks. She is one of ten women, and the only Russian, to hold the career Grand Slam. She is also an  Olympic medalist, having won a silver medal in women's singles at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. 
 
Leftie:
Actress Kate Hudson
 
More birthdays and historical events today, April 19 - On This Day.

 
Feature:
 
Enjoy Germaine Tailleferre's "Romance."



Historical Events


1774 - Christoph W. Gluck's opera Iphigenie en Aulide, adapted from Racine, is first staged at the Paris Opera, with the Dauphiane Marie Antoinette attending. (Here's Overture of this opera with Maestro Riccardo Muti conducting Philadelphia Orchestra, uploaded by mvvm18. Accessed April 19, 2018.)

1775 - The American War of Independence begins. When British soldiers try to confiscate colonists' firearms, a gun battle breaks out and the locals force the English out of town.

1861 - Sixteen people in Baltimore become the first casualties of the American civil War when an angry secessionist mob attacks troops on their way to the U.S. capital.

1951 - Douglas MacArthur, famous general in U.S. history, retires from military.

1956 - Prince Rainier III of Monaco marries Hollywood star Grace Kelly.  A civil ceremony had already been held in the throne room of the palace they day before, with the religious Nuptial Mass held in the Cathedral of Monaco. The Pope's blessing was read out at the end of the proceedings. Grace Kelly gave up her acting career to become Princess Grace of Monace, Her Serene Highness. The couple had three children - Caroline, Albert, and Stephanie. Grace Kelly was tragically killed in a car accident on September 14, 1982. 

1993 - A 51-day siege at Waco, Texas, ends with a fire breaking out in the Branch Davidian headquarters. About 80 cult members die, including David Koresh, their leader.

2005 - German Joseph Ratzinger is elected Pope Benedict XVI. 


Video Credit:

Germaine Tailleferre's Romance. YouTube, uploaded by TheWelleszCompany. Accessed April 19, 2017. (Cristina Ariagno, pianoforte.)


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 Timestables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
6. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org



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