C18-L's Kalendar, March 22-28 (More reasons to celebrate)
Kevin Berland
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* THE KALENDAR - REASONS TO CELEBRATE *
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* Compiled for C18-L by Kevin Berland *
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MARCH 22:
BIRTHDAYS: Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish court painter to King Charles of
England (1599-1641); Edward Moore, English playwright (1712); Anton Raphael
Mengs, German painter (1728);
LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST: Adam Sedgwick, English geologist who
named the Devonian period (1785-1873); Emperor William I of Prussia, aka
Kaiser Wilhelm (1797-1888); John Frederick Kensett, US painter (1816);
Braxton Bragg, Confederate army general (1817-76); Randolph Caldecott,
English artist, illustrator of children's books, nonpareil deviser of the
carefree,
dancing pig (1846-86); Paul Doumer, French statesman, president (1857-1932);
Robert Andrews Millikan, US physicist (1868-1953); Arthur Hendrick
Vanderberg, US politician, statesman (1884-1951); James Maurice Gavin, US
general, diplomat (1907); Maurice Hubert Stans, US government official, Nixon
henchman, Watergate leader (1908); Nicholas Montsarrat, English novelist
(1910); Maiden Sekulovich, better known as Karl Malden, US actor (1913);
Marcel Marceau, French mime (1923); Stephen Joshua Sondheim, US
Broadway composer, lyricist (1930); Burton Richter, US physicist (1931);
Abulhassan Bani-Sadr, Iranian leader, president (1933);
DEATHS: Anne Clifford, Countess of Pembroke (1676); Jean Baptiste
Lully (1687); Jonathan Edwards (1758); John Canton (1772); Johann Wolfgang
van Goethe (1832);
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: in 1673, England's Test Act excluded Roman
Catholics and protestant Dissenters from holding public office; in 1724, Peter
Cummin, an English day-labourer who lived more than 120 years, was buried in
Alnwick;
MISCELLANEA: Today is Arab League Day; in Lesotho it's National Tree-
Planting Day; Puerto Rico celebrates Emancipation Day (aka Aboloition Day) in
1873;
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MARCH 23:
BIRTHDAYS: Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England, Wife to Henry VI
(1430-82); John Bartram, North American botanist (1699-1777); Pierre Simon,
Marquis de Laplace, French mathematician, astronomer, discoverer of the
invariability of planetary mean motions, author of Mecanique Celeste (1749
-1827); William Smith, English geologist, founder of stratigraphical geology
(1760-1839);
LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST: Count Karl Robert Nesselode, Russian
statesman, chancellor (1780-1862); Schuyler Colfax, US newspaper editor,
politician, vice-president (1823-85); Franklin Henry Giddings, US sociologist
(1855-1931); Fannie Merritt Farmer, US cookbook writer (1857-1915); Ludwig
Quidde, German pacifist, 1927 Nobel Peace Prize (1858-1941); Michael Joseph
Savage, New Zealand labour leader, PM (1872-1940); Joseph Christian
Leyendecker (1874); Herman Staudinger, German chemist (1881-1965); Roger
Martin du Gard, French novelist, playwright, 1937 Nobel Laureate (1881-1958);
Florence Ellinwood Allen, US jurist (1884-1966); Juan Gris, Spanish painter
(1887-1927); Sidney Hillman, Lithuanian-born US labour leader (1887-1946);
Louis Adamic, Yugoslavian-born US writer (1899-1951); Erich Fromm, German-
born US psychoanalyst (1900-80); Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacological
researcher (1907); Lucille Le Sueur, better known as Joan Crawford, US
actress (1908-77); Akiro Kurosawa, Japanese film director (1910); Werner
Magnus Maximilian von Braun, German & US rocketry engineer (1912-77);
Roger Bannister, English athlete, in 1954 1st to run the mile in less than four
minutes (1929);
DEATHS: Justus Lipsius (1606); Duchess of Brunswick (1813); Thomas
Holcroft (1809); Augustus Frederick Kotzebue (1819); Carl Maria von Weber
(1829); Archdeacon R. Nares (1829);
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: in 1752, John Bushell printed the 1st issue of the
Halifax Gazette, Canada's 1st printing; in 1752, the English Parliament passed
the Stamp Act, levying duties on the 13 American colonies; in 1775, Patrick
Henry delivered the "Give me liberty or give me death!" speech to the 2nd
Virginia convention as part of the campaign to arm the militia; in 1801, Czar
Paul
I of Russia was assassinated in a palace revolution;
MISCELLANEA: Today is Shunki-Koreisan (Spring Imperial Festival) in Japan;
it's Republic Day in Pakistan; UN member countries also celebrate World
Meteorological Day. It's the feast of St. Gwinear (Guigner, Fingar), patron of
Gwinear, Cornwall. On this day in 1917, Leonard & Virginia Woolf established
Hogarth Press in their dining room.
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MARCH 24:
BIRTHDAYS: Georg Bauer, aka Georgius Agricola, German physician,
mineralogist (1494-1555); Michiel Adriaanszoon de Ruyter, Dutch naval
commander (1607-76); John Smibert, colonial American painter (1688); Henry
Benedict, Cardinal York (1725); Joel Barlow, US poet, statesman, one of the
Hartford Wits (1754-1812); Rufus King, US politician, lawyer, diplomat (1755-
1827);
LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST: Mariano Jose de Larra y Sanchez de
Castro, Spanish satirist (1809-37); Henri Murger, French poet, journalist
(1822-
61); William Morris, English poet, artist, designer, printer, decorator,
political
philosopher (1834-96); John Wesley Powell, US geologist, ethnologist (1834-
1902); Andrew William Mellon, US financier, philanthropist (1855-1937); Ehrich
Weiss, better-known as Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born US magician, illusionist,
escape artist (1874-1926); Peter J.W. Debye, Dutch chemist (1884-1966);
Edward Weston, US nature photographer (1886-1958); Roscoe Conkling "Fatty"
Arbuckle, US silent-film comedian (1887-1953); Thomas Edmund Dewey, US
politician, governor of New York (1902-71); Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt,
German biochemist (1903); Dwight MacDonald, US writer, critic, wit (1906-82);
Clyde Barrow, US outlaw, bank-robber, partner to Bonnie Parker (1909-34);
John C. Kendrew, English biochemist (1917); Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti,
US beat poet, publisher (1919); Steve McQueen, US actor (1930-80);
DEATHS: Queen Elizabeth I of England (1603); Dr. Daniel Whitby (1726);
Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield (1773); John Harris (1776); Mary
Tighe (1810);
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: in 1401, Mongol leaderTimur Lenk (aka
Tamerlane) took Damascus; in 1644, Roger Williams was granted a royal charter
for the colony of Rhode Island;
MISCELLANEA: Today is the feast of St. Dunchad, patron of Irish sailors; it
also the Feast of St. Catherine of Vadstena, invoked against miscarriages; and
it
is also the Feast of St. Gabriel the Archangel, patron of postal, telegraph, and
telephone workers (does this include e-mail?).
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MARCH 25:
BIRTHDAYS: Archbishop John Williams (1582); Juan Carreno de Miranda,
Spanish painter (1614); Bishop George Bull (1634); Sir Richard Cox, Lord
Chancellor of Ireland (1650); Joacham Murat, French cavalry officer, marshal
with Napoleon, the "Dandy King" of Naples (1767-1815);
LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST: John Winebrenner, US clergyman,
founder of the Church of God (1797-1860); Anne Bronte, English poet &
novelist (1820); John Bell Wait, US educator, inventor of embossing-machine to
produce books for the blind (1839-1916); William Eugene "Pussyfoot" Johnson,
US prohibitionist (1862-1945); Simon Flexner, US bacteriologist, discovered
serum to treat meningitis (1863-1946); Arturo Toscanini, Italian-born US
conductor, who once reproached his orchestra with the name "Assassins!" (1867-
1957); John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, US sculptor of presidential heads on
Mt. Rushmore (1871-1941); Bela Bartok, Hungarian pianist, composer (1881-
1945); Raymond Gram Swing, US radio commentator (1887-1968); Byron Price,
US journalist, public official, Director of Censorship during WW II, Asst. Sec.-
Gen. of UN (1891-1981); Norman E. Borlaug, US agronomist, 1970 Nobel Peace
Prize (1914); William Howard Cohen, better known as Howard Cosell, wordy
US sportscaster (1920); Simone-Henriette-Charlotte Kaminker, better-known as
Simone Signoret, French actress, author of the aptly titled memoir Nostalgia
Isn't
What It Used To Be (1921); Mary Flannery O'Connor, US short-story writer,
novelist, critic: "Everywher I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles
writers.
My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller
that could have been prevented by a good teacher." (1925-64); Jack
Youngerman, American painter (1926); James Arthur Lovell, Jr., US astronaut
(1928); Gloria Steinem, US feminist, author, editor (1934); Aretha Franklin,
US
soul singer: "R-E-S-P-E-C-T..." (1942); Sarah Jessica Parker, US actress
(1965);
DEATHS: Sir Thomas Elyot (1546); Archbishop John Williams (1650); Henry
Cromwell (1674); Nehemiah Grew (1711); Anna Seward (1809);
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: in 1634, Lord Baltimore's company of settlers
arrived in Maryland, founding the colony; in 1799, Austrian forces defeated the
French at Stokach (War of the 2nd Coalition); in 1811, English poet Percy
Bysshe Shelley was sent down from Oxford -- he'd refused to admit he'd written
The Necessity of Atheism;
MISCELLANEA: Today is Lady Day inEngland (the Feast of the Annunci-
ation) -- and also Quarter Day; Greece celebrates Independence Day today;
it's Universal Vote Day in San Marino. It's also the Feast of the Good Thief,
crucified with Jesus, patron saint of thieves. On this day in 1904, Dvorak's
opera Armida premiered in Prague; in 1965, about 25,000 US civil-rights
demonstrators finished their 5-day walk from Selma to Montgomery Alabama;
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MARCH 26:
BIRTHDAYS: Konrad von Gesner, Swiss naturalist, author of the His-
toriae Animalium (1516-65); William Wollaston, English divine, Author of
The Religion of Nature Delineated (1659); Hubert Gravelot, French illus-
trator 1699); Moreau le Jeune, french printmaker (1741); William Blount,
US politician expelled from Senate for conspiring to inflate western land
values (1749-1800); Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, English physicist
who brought Watt's steam-engine into general use (1753-1814); George
Joseph Bell, Scottish legal writer (1770); Nathaniel Bowditch, US mathe-
matician, navigator, astronomer (1773-1838);
LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST: Louise Otto, German writer, feminist
leader (1819-95); George Smith, English Assyriologist (1840-76); Edward
Bellamy, US utopian novelist (1850-99); Alfred Edward "A.E." Housman, English
poet, classicist (1859-1936); Ahmed Fuad Pasha, King Fuad I of Egypt (1868-
1936); Sir Gerald du Maurier, English actor & theatrical manager, father to
Daphne (1873-1934); Robert Frost, US poet (1874-1963); Conde Nast, US
magazine publisher (1874-1942); Othmar H. Ammann, US engineer, bridge-
builder, designer of the George Washington, Golden Gate, and Mackinac
bridges (1879-1965); Duncan Hines, US gourmet, who might have been startled
by the quick-to-fix products that bear his name today (1880-1959); William
Backhaus, Swiss pianist (1884-1969); Leonard "Chico" Marx, US comedian:
"You can'ta fool me -- there'sa no such thing as Sanity Clause." (1891-1961);
Paul
Howard Douglas, US politician (1892-1976); James Bryant Conant, US educator,
President of Harvard, diplomat (1893); Palmiro Togliatti, Italian political
leader
(1893-1964); Hector Jose Campora, Argentinian politician (1909-80); Sir
Bernard
Katz, English physiologist (1911); Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams, US
playwright (1911-83); Pierre Boulez, French conductor, abstract constructivist
composer (1925); Sandra Day O'Connor, US jurist (1930); James Caan, US actor
(1940); Erica Jong, US poet, novelist (1942); Robert Upshur Woodward, US
journalist, coauthor of the Watergate stories (1943); Diana Ross, US soul
singer,
ex-Supreme (1944);
DEATHS: Bishop Brian Duppa (1662); William Courten (1702); Sir John
Vanbrugh (1726); C.P. Duclos (1772);
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: in 1780, the 1st British newspaper issued on
Sunday, The British Gazette and Sunday Monitor, was published; in 1793, the
Holy Roman Empire declared war on France;
MISCELLANEA: Today is Independence Day in Bangladesh; Spain observes
Fiesta del Arbol (Arbor Day); Hawaii observes Prince Jonah Kuhio
Kalanianaole Day (aka Regatta Day, aka the prince's birthday). It's also the
Feast of St. Braulio, patron of Aragon. On this day in 1871, the Paris Commune
was established;
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MARCH 27:
BIRTHDAYS: James Keill, Scottish mathematician (1671); Ferenc Rakoczy II,
Hungarian patriot who lead a revolt against the Austrians in 1703, and was
defeated 5 years later (1676-1735); Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect
(1678);Andrew Bell, Scottish clergyman, educator, inventor of the monitorial
system of education (1753-1832); Louis XVII, aka Louis Charles, titular King of
France 1793-5 (1785-95);
LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST: Alfred Victor, Comte de Vigny, French
poet, playwright, novelist (1797-1863); George Eugene Haussmann, French
architect & urban planner (1809-1891); Nathaniel Currier, US lithographer,
partner with Ives (1813-88); Adolphus Washington Greeley, US arctic explorer
(1844-1935); William Konrad Roentgen, German physicist, discoverer of X-rays
(1845-1923); Otto Wallach, German organic chemist (1847-1931); Vincent d'Indy,
French composer & founder of Schola Cantorum (1851-1931); Karl Pearson,
English mathematician, developer of theory of standard deviation (1857-1936);
Sir Frederick Henry Royce, English automaker, partner to C.S. Rolls (1863-
1933); Edward Steichen, US photographer (1879-1973); James Wares Bryce,
US inventor of business machines & computer monitors (1880-1949); Ludwig
Mies van der Rohe, German Bauhaus architect, US steel-and-glass architect
(1886-1969); Ferdinand Rudolph von Grofe, aka Ferde Grofe, US composer
(1892-1972); Draza Mihajlovic, Serbian antifascist leader (1893-1946); Gloria
May Josephine Swanson, US actress (1899-1983); Eisako Sato, Japanese
statesman, PM, 1974 Nobel Peace Prize (1901); Charles Elssworth "Pee Wee"
Russell, US jazz clarinetist (1906-69); Leonard James Callaghan, British
politician, PM (1912); Budd Schulberg, US writer (1914); Cyrus Vance, US
politician, diplomat (1917); Louis Simpson, Jamaican-born US poet (1923);
Sarah
Vaughan, US jazz singer (1924); Mstislav Rostropovich, Russian-US cellist,
conductor (1927); David Meyer, better known as David Janssen, US actor
(1930); Michael York-Johnson, better-known without the last half of his
hyphenated surname, English actor (1942);
DEATHS: King James I of England (1625); Bishop Edward Stillingfleet (1699);
Leopold, duc de Lorraine (1729);
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: in 1794, George Washington signed act
establishing US NAvy; in 1802, England gained possession of Trinidad and
Ceylon in the Peace of Amiens signed with France;
MISCELLANEA: Today Burma celebrates Resistance Day.
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MARCH 28:
BIRTHDAYS: Fra Bartolommeo, aka Baccio della Porta, aka Bartolommeo
di Pagolo del Fattorino, Italian painter (1475-1517); Raphael, aka
Raffaello Sanzio, aka Rafaello Santi, Italian painter & architect (1483-
1520); Sir Thomas Smith, author of The English Commonwealth (1514-15);
Teresa de Cepeda y Ahumda, aka Teresa of Avila, Spanish visionary,
reformer, author, Carmelite nun (1515-82); Jan Amos Komensky, aka
Johannes Amos Comenius, Czech philosopher, educational reformer (1592-
1670); Samuel Sewall, American colonial jurist who presided over Salem
witch trials (1652-1730); George I, King of Great Britain and Ireland
1714-27 (1660-1727); Ignacio de Luzan, Spanish poet, neoclassical
critic (1702-54); Dr. Andrew Kippis, English nonconformist divine, editor of
Biographia Britannica (1725); Francisco Antonio Gabriel Miranda, Venezuelan
revolutionary, dictator (1750-1816);
LATER BIRTHDAYS OF INTEREST: St. John Nepmucene Neumann, US
Roman Catholic bishop canonized 1977 (1811-60); Francesco de Sanctis, Italian
critic (1817-83); Wade Hampton, Confederate general, governor of South
Carolina (1818-1902); Sir Joseph William Bazalgette, English civil engineer
(1819-91); Aristide Briand, French statesman, 7 times PM, 1926 Nobel Peace
Prize (1862-1932); Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov, better known as Maxim
Gorky, Russian novelist (1868); William Allen Neilson, US editor, educator,
president of Smith College (1869-1946); William Mengelberg, Dutch pianist,
composer, conductor (1871-1951); Paul Whiteman, US musician & bandleader
(1891-1967); Corneille J.F. Heymans, Belgian physiologist (1892-1968);
Christian
Archibald Herter, US journalist, diplomat (1895-1966); Rudolf Serkin, Austrian
pianist (1903); Nelson Algren, US novelist (1909-81); Edmund Sixtus Muskie, US
politician (1914); Derek van Bogaerd, better-known as Dirk Bogard, English
actor, author (1921); Grace Hartigan, US painter (1922); Zbigniew Brzezinski,
Polish-born US political scientist, government official (1928);
DEATHS: Jacques Callot (1636)l Wentzel Hollar (1677); Peg Woffington
(1760); Dr. James Tunstall (1772); Marquis de Condorcet (1794); General Sir
Ralph Abercrombie (1801);
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: in 1760, the 1st two volumes of Laurence
Sterne's Tristram Shandy were published; in 1774, the British parliament passed
the Coercive Acts against Massachusetts;
MISCELLANEA: Today is Teacher's Day in Czechoslovakia, and Evacuation
Day in Libya. On this day in 1979, the Three-Mile Island nuclear power plant in
Pennsylvania malfunctioned seriously;