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Posted: 10 Mar 2018 05:35 PM PST  Πολιτικοθρησκευτική διαμάχη που συντάραξε την Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία τον 8ο και 9ο αιώνα και απείλησε σοβαρά τη συνοχή της. Αντίπαλοι ήταν οι Εικονομάχοι, που υποστήριζαν ότι οι χριστιανοί δεν πρέπει να προσκυνούν τις άγιες εικόνες και οι Εικονολάτρες, που διακήρυτταν το αντίθετο... |
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Posted: 10 Mar 2018 05:35 PM PST  Έλληνας φιλόσοφος, οικονομολόγος και ψυχαναλυτής, που έδρασε και δημιούργησε στη Γαλλία. Από τους μεγαλύτερους στοχαστές του 20ου αιώνα. Γεννήθηκε στις 11 Μαρτίου 1922. |
Posted: 10 Mar 2018 05:35 PM PST  Βραβευμένος με Νόμπελ σκοτσέζος βιολόγος, που μαζί με τη σύζυγό του Αμαλία Φλέμινγκ, ανακάλυψε την πενικιλίνη. Πέθανε στις 11 Μαρτίου του 1955... |
Posted: 10 Mar 2018 05:35 PM PST  Ελληνίδα ηθοποιός του θεάτρου, του κινηματογράφου και της τηλεόρασης. Πέθανε στις 11 Μαρτίου 2017... |
Posted: 10 Mar 2018 05:35 PM PST  Ρουμάνα αθλήτρια του άλματος εις ύψος. Υπήρξε μία από τις κορυφαίες αθλήτριες του αγωνίσματος, έχοντας καταρρίψει επανειλημμένα το παγκόσμιο ρεκόρ και κατακτήσει χρυσά μετάλλια σε ολυμπιακούς και πανευρωπαϊκούς αγώνες... |
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Posted: 10 Mar 2018 05:35 PM PST  Δημοφιλής όπερα του Τζουζέπε Βέρντι, βασισμένη στο δράμα του Βίκτωρος Ουγκό «Ο βασιλιάς διασκεδάζει». Έργο ρεπερτορίου για το λυρικό θέατρο, πρωτοανέβηκε στις 11 Μαρτίου 1851 στο θέατρο «Λα Φενίτσε» της Βενετίας. |
Posted: 10 Mar 2018 05:35 PM PST  Στρατιωτικός και πολιτικός, που διατέλεσε για μία ημέρα πρωθυπουργός της Ελλάδας. Πέθανε στις 11 Μαρτίου του 1949... |
Posted: 10 Mar 2018 05:35 PM PST  Φημισμένος τραγουδιστής, εκτελεστής σαντουριού και τραγουδοποιός του ρεμπέτικου, γνωστός και ως «Σαμιωτάκι». Πέθανε στις 11 Μαρτίου του 1984... |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2018 06:34 PM PDT  Το Δόγμα Τρούμαν υπήρξε ουσιαστικά η εναρκτήρια δήλωση του Ψυχρού Πολέμου κι είχε ως αποτέλεσμα τη μεταβολή της εξωτερικής πολιτικής των ΗΠΑ... |
Posted: 11 Mar 2018 06:34 PM PDT  Νεαρή Γερμανοεβραία, ένα από τα πιο γνωστά και πολυσυζητημένα θύματα του Ολοκαυτώματος. Το ημερολόγιό της είναι ένα από τα πιο πολυδιαβασμένα βιβλία παγκοσμίως. Πέθανε στις 9 Μαρτίου του 1945... |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2018 06:34 PM PDT  Αμερικανός τραγουδιστής της τζαζ, από τους κορυφαίους στο είδος του, με επτά Γκράμι στη συλλογή του. Το ρεπερτόριό του περιλάμβανε ένα εκλεκτικό μείγμα τζαζ, ποπ, σόουλ και φανκ μουσικής. Γεννήθηκε στις 12 Μαρτίου 1940... |
Posted: 11 Mar 2018 06:34 PM PDT  Χάρτινος ήρωας, με μεγάλη καριέρα σε όλα τα μέσα, που γεννήθηκε από το πενάκι του σκιτσογράφου Χανκ Κέτσαμ. Έκανε την παρθενική του εμφάνιση στις 12 Μαρτίου του 1951... |
Posted: 11 Mar 2018 06:34 PM PDT  Αμερικανός αλτοσαξοφωνίστας, συνθέτης της τζαζ. Θεωρείται ένας από τους επιδραστικότερους μουσικούς στην ιστορία της τζαζ, που έπαιξε καθοριστικό ρόλο στην εμφάνιση του be-bop. Πέθανε στις 12 Μαρτίου 1955... |
Posted: 11 Mar 2018 06:34 PM PDT  Κλεφτοκαπετάνιος και αγωνιστής του ’21 από τη Μεσσηνία. Είναι περισσότερο γνωστός ως Μητροπέτροβας. Πέθανε στις 12 Μαρτίου του 1838... |
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Posted: 11 Mar 2018 06:34 PM PDT  Η Ελλάδα ήταν μία από τις τελευταίες ευρωπαϊκές χώρες που απέκτησε τηλεόραση. Οι λόγοι ήταν τόσο οικονομικοί, όσο και πολιτικοί. Η μεταπολεμική ανέχεια και η πρόθεση της πολιτικής εξουσίας να ελέγξει το μέσο, όπως έγινε και με το ραδιόφωνο, έπαιξαν σημαντικό ρόλο στην αργοπορημένη εμφάνισης της τηλεόρασης στη χώρα μας. |
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EVENTS OF THIS DAY IN THE PAST 12/3
- 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius
- 1550 – Several hundred Spanish and indigenous troops under the command of Pedro de Valdivia defeat an army of 60,000 Mapuche at the Battle of Penco during the Arauco War in present-day Chile
- 1622 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Society of Jesus, are canonized by the Roman Catholic Church
- 1689 – The Williamite War in Ireland begins.
- 1811 – Peninsular War: A day after a successful rearguard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delayed the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha
- 1864 – American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as a US Navy fleet of 13 Ironclads and 7 Gunboats and other support ships enter the Red River
- 1881 – Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.
- 1885 – Tonkin Campaign: France captures the citadel of Bắc Ninh.
- 1894 – Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph A. Biedenharn.
- 1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
- 1913 – Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remains temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital is still under construction.)
- 1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
- 1920 – The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
- 1921 – İstiklâl Marşı is adopted in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
- 1922 – Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan form the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
- 1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kills 431 people.
- 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India
- 1933 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".
- 1934 – Konstantin Päts and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties.
- 1938 – Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
- 1940 – Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated.
- 1942 – World War II: Pacific War: The Battle of Java ends with an ABDACOM surrender to the Japanese Empire in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.
- 1943 – Italian occupation of Greece: The Italian occupying forces abandon the town of Karditsa to the partisans. On the same day, an Italian motorized column razes the village of Tsaritsani, burning 360 of its 600 houses and shooting 40 civilians.
- 1947 – Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
- 1950 – The Llandow air disaster occurs near Sigingstone, Wales, in which 80 people die when their aircraft crashed, making it the world's deadliest air disaster at the time.
- 1961 – First winter ascent of the North Face of the Eiger.
- 1967 – Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the MPRS inaugurate him as Acting President of Indonesia.
- 1968 – Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1971 – The March 12 Memorandum is sent to the Suleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
- 1992 – Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1993 – Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
- 1993 – North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
- 1994 – The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
- 1999 – Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
- 2003 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
- 2003 – WHO officially release global warning on pandemic SARS disease.
- 2004 – The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: The first such impeachment in the nation's history.
- 2009 – Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street's history.
- 2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.
- 2014 – A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.
Births[edit]
- 1270 – Charles, Count of Valois (d. 1325)
- 1386 – Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Japanese shogun (d. 1428)
- 1409 – Isabella of Urgell, Duchess of Coimbra, Portuguese Duchess (d. 1459)
- 1475 – Luca Gaurico, Italian astrologer (d. 1558)
- 1476 – Anna Jagiellon, Duchess of Pomerania, Polish princess (d. 1503)
- 1479 – Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours (d. 1516)
- 1500 – Reginald Pole, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1558)
- 1501 – Pietro Andrea Mattioli, Italian scientist (d. 1577)
- 1607 – Paul Gerhardt, German poet and composer (d. 1676)
- 1613 – André Le Nôtre, French gardener and architect (d. 1700)
- 1620 – Johann Heinrich Hottinger, Swiss philologist and theologian (d. 1667)
- 1626 – John Aubrey, English historian and philosopher (d. 1697)
- 1647 – Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (d. 1727)
- 1672 – Richard Steele, Irish-Welsh journalist and politician (d. 1729)
- 1685 – George Berkeley, Irish bishop and philosopher (d. 1753)
- 1710 – Thomas Arne, English composer (d. 1778)
- 1781 – Frederica of Baden (d. 1826)
- 1795 – William Lyon Mackenzie, Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 1st Mayor of Toronto (d. 1861)
- 1806 – Jane Pierce, American wife of Franklin Pierce, 15th First Lady of the United States (d. 1863)
- 1821 – John Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1893)
- 1824 – Gustav Kirchhoff, Russian-German physicist and academic (d. 1887)
- 1831 – Clement Studebaker, American businessman, co-founded Studebaker (d. 1901)
- 1832 – Charles Boycott, English farmer and agent (d. 1897)
- 1832 – Charles Friedel, French chemist and mineralogist (d.1899)
- 1835 – Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1909)
- 1837 – Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (d. 1911)
- 1838 – William Henry Perkin, English chemist and academic (d. 1907)
- 1851 – Theodore Thurston Geer, American journalist and politician, 10th Governor of Oregon (d. 1924)
- 1858 – Adolph Ochs, American publisher (d. 1935)
- 1859 – Abraham H. Cannon, American religious leader (d. 1896)
- 1860 – Eric Stenbock, Estonian poet and author (d. 1895)
- 1861 – József Konkolics, Hungarian-Slovene cantor and author (d. 1941)
- 1863 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian soldier, journalist, poet, and playwright (d. 1938)
- 1863 – Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist and chemist (d. 1945)
- 1864 – W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (d. 1922)
- 1864 – Alice Tegnér, Swedish organist and composer (d. 1943)
- 1864 – Charles Young, American colonel (d. 1922)
- 1869 – George Forbes, New Zealand lawyer and politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1947)
- 1874 – Charles Weeghman, American businessman (d. 1938)
- 1877 – Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior (d. 1946)
- 1878 – Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint (d. 1903)
- 1880 – Henry Drysdale Dakin, English-American chemist and academic (d. 1952)
- 1880 – Jaan Soots, Estonian general and politician, 7th Estonian Minister of War (d. 1942)
- 1881 – Gunnar Nordström, Finnish physicist and academic (d. 1923)
- 1883 – Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian politician (d. 1959)
- 1889 – Idris of Libya (d. 1983)
- 1890 – Vaslav Nijinsky, Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 1950)
- 1890 – William Dudley Pelley, American screenwriter and politician, founded the Silver Legion of America (d. 1965)
- 1890 – Evert Taube, Swedish singer-songwriter and lute player (d. 1976)
- 1891 – George W. Mason, American businessman (d. 1954)
- 1895 – Otakar Batlička, Czech journalist and author (d. 1942)
- 1895 – William C. Lee, American general (d. 1948)
- 1896 – Jesse Fuller, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1976)
- 1907 – Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer and academic (d. 2007)
- 1908 – Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970)
- 1908 – David Marshall, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Singapore (d. 1995)
- 1910 – Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, 68th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1980)
- 1911 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican academic and politician, 49th President of Mexico (d. 1979)
- 1912 – Irving Layton, Romanian-Canadian poet and academic (d. 2006)
- 1912 – Edgar Tafel, American architect (d. 2011)
- 1912 – Paul Weston, American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1996)
- 1913 – Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
- 1913 – Agathe von Trapp, Hungarian-American singer and author (d. 2010)
- 1914 – Frank Soo, English footballer and manager (d. 1991)
- 1915 – Willibald C. Bianchi, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1945)
- 1915 – Alberto Burri, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1995)
- 1917 – Leonard Chess, American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records (d. 1969)
- 1917 – Millard Kaufman, American author and screenwriter (d. 2009)
- 1917 – Googie Withers, Indian-Australian actress (d. 2011)
- 1918 – Elaine de Kooning, American painter and academic (d. 1989)
- 1919 – Mike Stepovich, American lawyer and politician, Governor of the Territory of Alaska (d. 2014)
- 1920 – Roland Fraïssé, French mathematical logician (d. 2008)
- 1921 – Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman (d. 2003)
- 1921 – Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
- 1922 – Jack Kerouac, American author and poet (d. 1969)
- 1922 – Lane Kirkland, American sailor and union leader (d. 1999)
- 1923 – Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (d. 2013)
- 1923 – Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (d. 2005)
- 1923 – Clara Fraser, American activist, co-founded Radical Women (d. 1998)
- 1923 – Hanne Hiob, German actress and screenwriter (d. 2009)
- 1923 – Wally Schirra, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2007)
- 1923 – Joseph F. Weis, Jr., American lawyer and judge (d. 2014)
- 1923 – Mae Young, American wrestler (d. 2014)
- 1924 – Henri Rochon, Canadian tennis player (d. 2005)
- 1924 – Mary Lee Woods, English mathematician and computer programmer (d. 2017)
- 1925 – Louison Bobet, French cyclist (d. 1983)
- 1925 – Georges Delerue, French pianist and composer (d. 1992)
- 1925 – Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1925 – Harry Harrison, American author and illustrator (d. 2012)
- 1926 – George Ariyoshi, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Hawaii
- 1927 – Raúl Alfonsín, Argentinian lawyer and politician, 46th President of Argentina (d. 2009)
- 1928 – Edward Albee, American director and playwright (d. 2016)
- 1928 – Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2007)
- 1929 – Lupe Anguiano, Mexican-American civil rights activist
- 1930 – Bronco Horvath, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1930 – Vern Law, American baseball player, coach, and manager
- 1930 – Win Tin, Burmese journalist and politician, co-founded the National League for Democracy (d. 2014)
- 1931 – Herb Kelleher, American lawyer and businessman, co-founded Southwest Airlines
- 1931 – Robert B. Oakley, American soldier and diplomat, 19th United States Ambassador to Pakistan (d. 2014)
- 1932 – Andrew Young, American pastor and politician, 14th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- 1933 – Barbara Feldon, American actress
- 1934 – Virginia Hamilton, American author (d. 2002)
- 1934 – David Spenser, Sri Lankan-English actor and director (d. 2013)
- 1936 – Lloyd Dobyns, American journalist and author
- 1936 – Patrick Procktor, Irish-English painter and academic (d. 2003)
- 1936 – Eddie Sutton, American basketball player and coach
- 1937 – Valentīna Eiduka, Latvian javelin thrower and coach
- 1938 – Lew DeWitt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1990)
- 1938 – Johnny Rutherford, American race car driver and sportscaster
- 1938 – Dimitri Terzakis, Greek-German composer and educator
- 1939 – Lyndsie Holland, English actress and singer (d. 2014)
- 1939 – Jude Milhon, American hacker and author (d. 2003)
- 1940 – Al Jarreau, American singer (d. 2017)
- 1942 – Ratko Mladić, Serbian general
- 1942 – Shabnam Shakeel, Pakistani poet and author (d. 2013)
- 1942 – Jimmy Wynn, American baseball player and sportscaster
- 1945 – George Jackson, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
- 1946 – Liza Minnelli, American actress, singer, and dancer
- 1946 – Frank Welker, American voice actor and singer
- 1946 – Serge Turgeon, Canadian actor and union leader (d. 2004)
- 1947 – Peter Harry Carstensen, German educator and politician
- 1947 – Mary Jean Harrold, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2013)
- 1947 – Kalervo Palsa, Finnish painter (d. 1987)
- 1947 – Mitt Romney, American businessman and politician, 70th Governor of Massachusetts
- 1948 – Virginia Bottomley, Scottish social worker and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
- 1948 – Kent Conrad, American politician
- 1948 – James Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1949 – Mike Gibbins, Welsh drummer, singer, and songwriter (Badfinger) (d. 2005)
- 1949 – Rob Cohen, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1949 – David Mellor, English journalist, lawyer, and politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury
- 1949 – Bill Payne, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
- 1949 – Fergus Slattery, Irish rugby player
- 1950 – Javier Clemente, Spanish footballer and manager
- 1950 – Wheeler Winston Dixon, American film historian and filmmaker
- 1952 – Boris Anatolyevich Gavrilov, Russian football player and manager
- 1953 – Ron Jeremy, American pornographic actor
- 1954 – Anish Kapoor, Indian-English sculptor
- 1954 – Hajime Meshiai, Japanese golfer
- 1955 – Nicole Léger, Canadian educator and politician
- 1956 – Steve Harris, English bass player and songwriter
- 1956 – Lesley Manville, English actress
- 1956 – Dale Murphy, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
- 1957 – Patrick Battiston, French footballer and coach
- 1957 – Marlon Jackson, American singer-songwriter and dancer
- 1958 – Phil Anderson, English-Australian cyclist
- 1958 – Matt Millen, American football player, executive, and sportscaster
- 1958 – Minoru Niihara, Japanese singer-songwriter and bass player
- 1960 – Courtney B. Vance, American actor and painter
- 1961 – Joseph Facal, Canadian journalist and politician
- 1961 – Titus Welliver, American actor
- 1962 – Darryl Strawberry, American baseball player and minister
- 1963 – Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner and coach
- 1963 – Ian Holloway, English footballer and manager
- 1963 – Paul Way, English golfer
- 1965 – Steve Finley, American baseball player
- 1965 – Shawn Gilbert, American baseball player and coach
- 1966 – Grant Long, American basketball player and sportscaster
- 1967 – Jorge Dely Valdés, Panamanian footballer and manager
- 1967 – Julio Dely Valdés, Panamanian footballer and manager
- 1968 – Dylan Carlson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1968 – Tammy Duckworth, Thai-American colonel, pilot, and politician
- 1968 – Aaron Eckhart, American actor and producer
- 1969 – Graham Coxon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1969 – Jake Tapper, American journalist and author
- 1970 – Dave Eggers, American author and screenwriter
- 1970 – Mathias Gronberg, Swedish golfer
- 1970 – John Nemechek, American race car driver (d. 1997)
- 1970 – Rex Walters, American basketball player and coach
- 1971 – Isaiah Rider, American basketball player and rapper
- 1971 – Dragutin Topić, Serbian high jumper
- 1972 – Hector Luis Bustamante, Colombian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1974 – Matt Barela, American wrestler and actor
- 1974 – Chris Carr, American basketball player and coach
- 1974 – Steve Price, Australian rugby league player
- 1975 – Kéllé Bryan, English singer-songwriter and actress
- 1977 – Ramiro Corrales, American soccer player
- 1978 – Casey Mears, American race car driver
- 1978 – Neal Obermeyer, American cartoonist
- 1978 – Claudio Sanchez, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1978 – Arina Tanemura, Japanese author and illustrator
- 1979 – Jamie Dwyer, Australian field hockey player and coach
- 1979 – Nidia Guenard, American wrestler and manager
- 1979 – Shaun Rogers, American football player
- 1979 – Edwin Villafuerte, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1980 – Jens Mouris, Dutch cyclist
- 1980 – Douglas Murray, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1981 – Kenta Kobayashi, Japanese wrestler and kick-boxer
- 1981 – Maurizio Lauro, Italian footballer
- 1981 – Kristjan Makke, Estonian basketball player
- 1981 – Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenian tennis player
- 1981 – Holly Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1982 – Zach Miner, American baseball player
- 1982 – Tobias Schweinsteiger, German footballer
- 1982 – Erick Stevens, American wrestler
- 1983 – Atif Aslam, Pakistani singer and actor
- 1985 – Ed Clancy, English track and road cyclist
- 1986 – Danny Jones, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
- 1986 – Ben Offereins, Australian runner
- 1987 – Jessica Hardy, American swimmer
- 1987 – Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player
- 1987 – Chris Seitz, American soccer player
- 1987 – Omar Abdulrazaq, Syrian footballer
- 1988 – Sebastian Brendel, German canoe racer
- 1988 – Konstantinos Mitroglou, Greek footballer
- 1988 – Tyler Ward, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1988 – Myles Weston, English footballer
- 1989 – Richard Eckersley, English footballer
- 1989 – Siim Luts, Estonian footballer
- 1989 – Mark Sirõk, Estonian activist
- 1989 – Gareth Widdop, English rugby league player
- 1990 – Lawrence Clarke, English hurdler
- 1991 – Felix Kroos, German footballer
- 1992 – Cian Bolger, Irish footballer
- 1993 – Anton Shramchenko, Belarusian footballer
- 1993 – Jeppe Tverskov, Danish professional footballer
- 1993 – Nikolai Alho, Finnish football player
- 1994 – Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist
- 1994 – Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2016)
- 1995 – Will Pearsall, Australian rugby league player
- 1996 – Robert Bartczak, Polish footballer
- 1996 – Aristo Sham, Hong Kong pianist
Deaths[edit]
- 417 – Innocent I, pope of the Catholic Church
- 604 – Gregory I, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 540)
- 951 – Ælfheah the Bald, bishop of Winchester
- 969 – Mu Zong, emperor of the Liao Dynasty (b. 931)
- 1289 – Demetrius II, king of Georgia (b. 1259)
- 1316 – Stefan Dragutin, king of Serbia (b. 1253)
- 1374 – Go-Kōgon, Japanese emperor (b. 1338)
- 1496 – Johann Heynlin, German humanist scholar (b. c. 1425)
- 1507 – Cesare Borgia, Italian cardinal (b. 1475)
- 1539 – Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat and politician (b.1477)
- 1608 – Kōriki Kiyonaga, Japanese daimyo (b. 1530)
- 1628 – John Bull, English organist and composer (b. 1562)
- 1648 – Tirso de Molina, Spanish monk and poet (b. 1571)
- 1681 – Frans van Mieris the Elder, Dutch painter (b. 1635)
- 1699 – Peder Griffenfeld, Danish politician (b. 1635)
- 1703 – Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford, English jurist and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (b. 1627)
- 1731 – Ernest August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (b. 1660)
- 1790 – András Hadik, Hungarian field marshal (b. 1710)
- 1820 – Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish explorer and politician (b. 1764)
- 1832 – Friedrich Kuhlau, German-Danish pianist and composer (b. 1786)
- 1858 – William James Blacklock, English-Scottish painter (b. 1816)
- 1872 – Zeng Guofan, Chinese general and politician, Viceroy of Liangjiang (b. 1811)
- 1894 – Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (b. 1840)
- 1898 – Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)
- 1909 – Joseph Petrosino, American police officer (b. 1860)
- 1914 – George Westinghouse, American engineer and businessman (b. 1846)
- 1916 – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)
- 1925 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
- 1929 – Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
- 1929 – William Turner Dannat, American painter (b. 1853)
- 1930 – William George Barker, Canadian colonel and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1894)
- 1930 – Alois Jirásek, Czech author and playwright (b. 1851)
- 1935 – Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
- 1937 – Jenő Hubay, Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1858)
- 1937 – Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (b. 1844)
- 1942 – Robert Bosch, German engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH (b. 1861)
- 1942 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
- 1943 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
- 1945 – Friedrich Fromm, German general (b. 1888)
- 1946 – Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
- 1947 – Winston Churchill, American author and playwright (b. 1871)
- 1949 – Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
- 1954 – Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)
- 1955 – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1920)
- 1955 – Theodor Plievier, German author best known for his anti-war novel (b. 1892)
- 1956 – Bolesław Bierut, Polish Communist leader (b. 1892)
- 1957 – Josephine Hull, American actress (b. 1877)
- 1960 – Kshitimohan Sen, Indian historian, author, and academic (b. 1880)
- 1963 – Arthur Grimsdell, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1894)
- 1964 – Abbās al-Aqqād, Egyptian journalist, poet and literary critic (b. 1889)
- 1971 – Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (b. 1873)
- 1973 – Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
- 1974 – George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (b. 1904)
- 1979 – Nader Jahanbani, Iranian general and pilot (b. 1928)
- 1984 – Arnold Ridley, English actor and playwright (b. 1896)
- 1985 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1899)
- 1987 – Woody Hayes, American football player and coach (b. 1913)
- 1989 – Maurice Evans, English-American actor (b. 1901)
- 1989 – Jakob Gimpel, Polish concert pianist and educator (b. 1906)
- 1991 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
- 1991 – William Heinesen, Faroese author, poet, and author (b. 1900)
- 1992 – Hans G. Kresse, Dutch cartoonist (b. 1921)
- 1992 – Lucy M. Lewis, American potter (b. 1890)
- 1998 – Beatrice Wood, American painter and potter (b. 1893)
- 1999 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1916)
- 2001 – Morton Downey, Jr., American singer-songwriter, actor, and talk show host (b. 1933)
- 2001 – Robert Ludlum, American author (b. 1927)
- 2001 – Victor Westhoff, Dutch botanist and academic (b. 1916)
- 2002 – Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (b. 1932)
- 2002 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
- 2003 – Zoran Đinđić, Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952)
- 2003 – Howard Fast, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1914)
- 2003 – Lynne Thigpen, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
- 2004 – Milton Resnick, Russian-American painter (b. 1917)
- 2005 – Bill Cameron, Canadian journalist and producer (b. 1943)
- 2005 – Stavros Kouyioumtzis, Greek composer (b. 1932)
- 2006 – Victor Sokolov, Russian-American priest and journalist (b. 1947)
- 2007 – Arnold Drake, American author and screenwriter (b. 1924)
- 2008 – Jorge Guinzburg, Argentinian journalist and producer (b. 1949)
- 2008 – Lazare Ponticelli, Italian-French soldier and supercentenarian (b. 1897)
- 2010 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author (b. 1920)
- 2011 – Olive Dickason, Canadian historian and journalist (b. 1920)
- 2011 – Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (b. 1919)
- 2012 – Samuel Glazer, American businessman, co-founded Mr. Coffee (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Dick Harter, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
- 2012 – Michael Hossack, American drummer (b. 1946)
- 2012 – Friedhelm Konietzka, German-Swiss footballer and manager (b. 1938)
- 2013 – George Burditt, American lawyer and politician (b. 1921)
- 2013 – Clive Burr, English drummer and songwriter (b. 1957)
- 2013 – Michael Grigsby, English director and producer (b. 1936)
- 2013 – Ganesh Pyne, Indian painter and illustrator (b. 1937)
- 2014 – Věra Chytilová, Czech actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
- 2014 – George Donaldson, Scottish singer-songwriter (b. 1968)
- 2014 – Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923)
- 2014 – Ola L. Mize, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1931)
- 2014 – José Policarpo, Portuguese cardinal (b. 1936)
- 2015 – Willie Barrow, American minister and activist (b. 1924)
- 2015 – Michael Graves, American architect and academic, designed the Portland Building and the Humana Building (b. 1934)
- 2015 – Ada Jafri, Pakistani poet and author (b. 1924)
- 2015 – Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (b. 1948)
- 2016 – Rafiq Azad, Bangladeshi poet and author (b. 1942)
- 2016 – Felix Ibru, Nigerian architect and politician, Governor of Delta State (b. 1935)
- 2016 – Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
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THIS DAY IN MUSIC
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| 1955, American jazz saxophonist and composer Charlie Parker died of a heart attack in New York City while watching Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra on television. He was 34. The coroner who performed his autopsy mistakenly estimated Parker's 34-year-old body to be between 50 and 60 years of age. (After years of drug and alcohol abuse). | |
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| 1963, The Beatles played at the Granada Cinema in Bedford. Also on the bill, Chris Montez and Tommy Roe. John Lennon, suffering from a heavy cold, was unable to perform, so The Beatles set was rearranged so that George and Paul could sing the parts that John usually sang. | |
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| 1967, The Velvet Underground & Nico the debut album by the Velvet Underground was released by Verve Records. Though the record was a commercial failure upon release and was almost entirely ignored by contemporary critics, The Velvet Underground & Nico is now widely recognised as one of the greatest and most influential albums in the history of popular music. | |
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| 1968, The Rolling Stones started recording their next single 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' with new producer Jimmy Miller at Olympic studios in London. Keith Richards has stated that he and Jagger wrote the lyrics while staying at Richards' country house, where they were awakened one morning by the sound of gardener Jack Dyer walking past the window. When Jagger asked what the noise was, Richards responded, "Oh, that's Jack - that's jumpin' Jack." | |
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| 1969, Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman at Marylebone Register Office. They then held a reception lunch at The Ritz Hotel, Paul then went to Abbey Road studios in the evening to work. George Harrison and his wife Patti were arrested on the same day and charged with possession of 120 joints of marijuana. | |
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| 1969, The Temptations became the first Motown recording act to win a Grammy Award - for 'Cloud Nine' for the Best Rhythm & Blues Group Performance. The single which reached No.2 on the US charts was the first of their singles to feature Dennis Edwards instead of David Ruffin in the lineup, and was the first of producer Norman Whitfield's psychedelic soul tracks. | |
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| 1970, James Browns backing band The J.B.'s were formed after most of the members of his previous band walked out on him over a pay dispute. The J.B.'s initial lineup included bassist William "Bootsy" Collins and his guitarist brother Phelps "Catfish" Collins, formerly of the obscure funk band The Pacemakers. | |
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| 1971, The Allman Brothers Band played the first of two nights at the Fillmore East, New York. Both shows were recorded and released as The Allman Brothers live double album, which became the groups breakthrough album. | |
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| 1974, John Lennon made the headlines after an incident at the Troubadour Club, LA. Out on a drinking binge with Harry Nilsson, Lennon hurled insults at the performing Smothers Brothers and punched their manager before being forcibly removed. | |
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| 1977, The Sex Pistols were involved in a fight at London's Speakeasy Club with Bob Harris, presenter of BBC 2's The Old Grey Whistle Test, resulting in one of the shows engineers needing 14 stitches in his head. Two days later Harris's solicitors contact Derek Green at A&M the bands record label. Harris's management also managed Peter Frampton, one of the label's top acts at A&M. Green discussed the matter with the company's two founders, Jerry Moss and Herb Alpert and the decision is made to cancel the Pistols contract and halt production of the bands first single, 'God Save The Queen'. | |
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| 1983, U2 scored their first UK No.1 album with 'War', which went on to spend a total of 147 weeks on the chart. The album featured the singles 'New Years Day' and 'Two Hearts Beat As One'. | |
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| 1983, Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler had her only UK No.1 single with a song written by Meat Loaf's producer, Jim Steinman, 'Total Eclipse Of The Heart'. Also No.1 in the US, (the only Welsh artist to score a US No.1), Canada and Australia, the single sold over 5 million copies. | |
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| 1988, Rick Astley started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Never Gonna Give You Up', also a No.1 in the UK. | |
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| 1994, Swedish group Ace Of Base started a six week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'The Sign', a No.2 hit in the UK. | |
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| 1995, The Spin Doctors played a gig at singer Chris Barron's old School in Princeton and raised $10,000 (£5,882) towards a trip to France and the UK for the school choir. | |
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| 2001, Judy Garland's 'Over The Rainbow' was voted the Song Of The Century in a poll published in America. Musicians, critics and fans compiled the list by the RIA. The highest placed UK act was The Rolling Stones (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction in 16th place. The Beatles had 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' at No. 28. | |
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| 2004, Rosalind Morganfield, the 34 year old daughter of Blues artist Muddy Waters, surrendered to police after a warrant was issued accusing her of being involved in the 1996 murder of 19 year old Timothy Jason Harrington during a drug deal. | |
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| 2006, Former Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour went to No.1 on the UK album chart with his third solo album On An Island. In 2009 UK radio station Planet Rock held a poll asking listeners to name the 'Greatest Solo Album Written By A Former Band Member'. David Gilmour was voted into first place with On An Island. | |
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| 2007, Amy Winehouse made her US television debut on the Late Show with David Letterman performing 'Rehab'. The song went on to win three Grammy Awards, including Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and also won an Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song. | |
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| 2009, Hundreds of fans queued at the O2 arena in London as Michael Jackson tickets went on sale to the public. The 50-year-old pop veteran had confirmed he would be playing a 50-date residency at the venue, beginning on 8 July 2009. Some 360,000 pre-sale tickets had already sold. Organisers said the This Is It tour had become the fastest-selling in history, with 33 seats sold each minute. Prices ranged from £170 to £10,000, but tickets bought directly from the singer's website cost up to £75. Jackson had said this would be the last time he would perform in the UK. | |
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| 2010, Over 130 people were arrested and eight people were hospitalised as fans tried to gatecrash a Metallica show in Colombia. 1,500 police and four tanks were brought in to manage the crowds as property was vandalized and destroyed, as thousands of ticketless fans rioted during Metallica's first Colombian concert in eleven years. | |
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| 2012, Country star Taylor Swift beat Adele and Lady Gaga to be named the highest-earning pop artist of 2011. The 22-year-old earned $35,719,902 (£22.7m) in 2011 from a combination of music sales, royalties and touring. U2 took second place with $32m (£20m) thanks to their 360 tour, seen by more than seven million people while Adele came 10th. | |
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| 2012, Doobie Brothers drummer Michael Hossack died at his home in Dubois, Wyoming at the age of 65. He had been battling cancer for some time and succumbed to complications of the disease with his family at his side. Hossack was a member of the Doobie Brothers between 1971 and 1973, playing on several of the band's best-known hits, including 'Listen to the Music' and 'China Grove'. | |
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| 2013, Bob Dylan was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, marking the first time a rock musician had been chosen for the elite honor society. Officials in the Academy – which recognises music, literature and visual art – were unable to decide if Dylan belonged for his words or his music and instead inducted him as an honorary member like previous honorees Meryl Streep, Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese. | |
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| 2013, Clive Burr, drummer with Iron Maiden died in his sleep in London, four days after his 56th birthday, due to complications related to MS. Iron Maiden had the 1982 UK No.1 album The Number Of The Beast, and the 1991 UK No.1 single 'Bring Your Daughter To The Slaughter'. Burr was a member of up-and-coming British metal band, Samson, before joining Maiden in 1979. | |
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| 2016, Iron Maiden's personal Boeing 747 was badly damaged after colliding with a tow truck while grounded at Santiago, Chile. The band's crew and their twenty tons of equipment were not onboard at the time of the crash, but two ground crew workers were injured. | |
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| March 12th: Born on this day | |
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| 1917, Born on this day, Leonard Chess, the founder of the Chess record label, home to John Lee Hooker, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Jimmy Reed. Chess died of a heart attack on October 16th 1969, aged 52. | |
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| 1940, Born on this day, American singer and musician Al Jarreau. He received a total of seven Grammy Awards and Jarreau is best known for his 1981 album Breakin' Away. He also sang the theme song of the late-1980s television series Moonlighting. He died of respiratory failure on February 12, 2017 at the age of 76, just two days after announcing his retirement. | |
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| 1942, Born on this day, Brian O'Hara, The Fourmost, (1964 UK No.6 single 'A Little Loving'). Hung himself on 27th June 1999. | |
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| 1946, Born on this day, Liza Minnelli, singer, actress, dancer, daughter of Judy Garland and film director Vincente Minnelli. (1970 film 'Cabaret', 1989 UK No.6 single 'Losing My Mind'). | |
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| 1948, Born on this day, James Taylor, US singer, songwriter, (1971 US No.1 & UK No.4 single 'You've Got A Friend'. His first album was released on The Beatles Apple label. Taylor married Carly Simon in 1972. | |
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| 1948, Born on this day, Les Holroyd, Barclay James Harvest, 8 UK Top 40 albums from 1974-87. | |
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| 1949, Born on this day, Bill Payne, Little Feat, two Top 40 albums during the 70's, best-known songs 'Dixie Chicken' and 'Sailin Shoes'. | |
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| 1949, Born on this day, Mike Gibbins, drummer with Badfinger, (1970 UK No.4 & US No.7 single 'Come And Get It'). Gibbins died on 4th Oct 2005. | |
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| 1951, Born on this day, Jack Green, The Pretty Things, (1964 UK No. 10 with 'Don't Bring Me Down'). | |
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| 1956, Born on this day, Steve Harris, bass, Iron Maiden, (1982 UK No.1 album The Number Of The Beast, 1991 UK No.1 with 'Bring Your Daughter ...To The Slaughter'& 25 other Top 40 hits). | |
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| 1957, Born on this day, Marlon Jackson, The Jackson Five, (1970 US No.1 & UK No.2 single 'I Want You Back', The Jacksons, 1977 UK No.1 single 'Show You The Way To Go'). | |
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| 1965, Born on this day, Coleen Nolan, Nolan Sisters, (1980 UK No.3 single 'I'm In The Mood For Dancing'). | |
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| 1969, Born on this day, Graham Coxon, guitarist and singer with Blur who scored the 1994 UK No.1 album 'Parklife' which spent over 2 years on the UK chart, and the 1995 UK No.1 single 'Country House', plus over 12 other UK Top 40 singles. Coxon has also released a series of solo albums. | |
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| 1975, Born on this day, Kelle Bryan, vocals, Eternal, (1997 UK No.1 single 'I Wanna Be The Only One'). | |
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1977, Born on this day, Ben Kenny, bassist, Incubus, (2004 US No.2 and UK No.6 album 'A Crow Left of the Murder, 2006 US No.1 album 'Light Grenades'). | |
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| 1979, Born on this day, Pete Doherty, guitar, vocals, The Libertines, (2004 UK No.1 album ‘The Libertines’), who re-formed in 2010. Doherty was banned from playing with The Libertines until he could overcome his substance abuse problems. Released two albums with Babyshambles, the 2005 'Down in Albion' and 2007 'Shotter's Nation.' | |
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| 1986, Born on this day, Danny Jones, guitar, vocals, McFly, (2004 UK No.1 single ‘Colours In Her Hair’, 2004 UK No.1 album ‘Room On The 3rd Floor’). |
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Article 10
Sir Ken Dodd: Comedy legend dies, aged 90
Sir Ken Dodd, creator of the Diddy Men and one of the most popular comedians of his time, has died aged 90.
The Liverpool legend had recently been released from hospital after six weeks of treatment for a chest infection.
On Friday, he had married Anne Jones, his partner of 40 years, at their house, the same one he grew up in, in the Liverpool suburb of Knotty Ash.
"To my mind, he was one of the last music hall greats," his publicist, Robert Holmes, said.
Sir Ken was famous for his very long stand-up shows - with which he was touring until last year - along with his Diddy Men and the tickling stick.
"He passed away in the home that he was born in over 90 years ago. He's never lived anywhere else. It's absolutely amazing," added Mr Holmes.
GETTY IMAGESSir Ken had been a comedian since 1954 and was born the son of a coal merchant in 1927.
In the 1960s, he made it into the Guinness Book of Records for telling 1,500 jokes in three and a half hours.
After making his name in the music halls, his career in television and radio took off, as he brought national appeal to his regional, perhaps parochial humour.
GETTY IMAGESHe was a chart-topping singer too: his signature tune Happiness was released in 1964 and his single Tears was the third highest-selling song of the 1960s in Britain, beaten only by two Beatles singles.
Tributes have begun to pour in for Sir Ken, with Irish comic Dara O'Briain describing how he was "so happy" to meet him.
Sir Ken made his first professional appearance in 1954 at the Theatre Royal, Stockport, but it would be another decade before he made his West End debut, topping the bill at the London Palladium.
Throughout the 1970s and 80s, he was a regular face on TV and worked to a punishing schedule, which he kept throughout his career, seldom taking a holiday.
GETTY IMAGESBut in 1989 Sir Ken faced the possibility of a fall from grace, during a 23-day trial, charged with eight counts of tax fraud spanning 15 years and involving more than £800,000.
He was later acquitted, but the court heard a range of stories about his eccentricity, including hiding more than £300,000 in wardrobes, cupboards and under stairs.
Taking up his career again on his acquittal, Sir Ken enjoyed another season at the London Palladium in 1990 and won a British Comedy Lifetime Achievement Award as well as being voted Top Variety Performer in 1993.
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Article 9
TSCHUGGEN GRAND HOTEL
Πολυτελης μαγεία στις πλαγιές των Ελβετικών Άλπεων
Σε υψόμετρο 1.775 μέτρων, πνιγμένο μέσα στα έλατα, με 94 δωμάτια και 34 μοναδικές σουίτες...
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Article 8
5 πόλεις που δεν υπάρχουν μόνο σε ταινίες και σειρές…
Το σενάριο μιας ταινίας μπορεί να εφεύρει ένα όνομα τοποθεσίας, το οποίο μπορεί να παίζει ρόλο στην πλοκή ή απλά να είναι λίγο πιο εύηχο. Το πιο πρόσφατο παράδειγμα είναι η πόλη Ebbing του Μιζούρι, η οποία δεν υπάρχει στην πραγματικότητα.
Ωστόσο, θα πρέπει κάπου να γίνουν τα γυρίσματα. Οπότε υπάρχουν και οι αληθινές τοποθεσίες. Μπορεί λοιπόν μερικά μέρη να είναι ανύπαρκτα τουλάχιστον ονομαστικά, αλλά μπορείς αν θες να τα επισκεφτείς.
Το γραφικό Ebbing που βλέπουμε στην ταινία είναι στην πραγματικότητα η πόλη Σίλβα στην Βόρεια Καρολίνα (όχι στο Μιζούρι). Έχει πληθυσμό 3.000 κατοίκων, οι οποίοι ελπίζουν ότι το τριήμερο τουρ που διοργανώνουν πλέον στις τοποθεσίες γυρισμάτων, να προσελκύσει περισσότερους τουρίστες στην περιοχή.
King’s Landing («Game of Thrones») – Ντουμπρόβνικ, Κροατία
Η πρωτεύουσα των «επτά βασιλείων» της σειράς «Game Of Thrones», υπάρχει και ακούει στο όνομα Ντουμπρόβνικ. Η πόλη των 45.000 κατοίκων έχει γίνει άκρως τουριστική, όχι μόνο για να θαυμάσουν οι φανς τις τοποθεσίες των γυρισμάτων, αλλά γιατί πραγματικά το Ντουμπρόβνικ είναι μια πανέμορφη και υπέροχη πόλη.
Ο Peter Jackson ερωτεύτηκε κυριολεκτικά την Νέα Ζηλανδία, όπου έκανε την συντριπτική πλειοψηφία των γυρισμάτων για τις 6 ταινίες του «Lord of the Rings» και του «Hobbit». Το χωριό των Hobbit είναι στην πραγματικότητα η πόλη Ματαμάτα, η οποία τα τελευταία χρόνια δέχεται χιλιάδες επισκέψεις από φανατικούς των βιβλίων και των ταινιών.
Twin Peaks («Twin Peaks») – Σιάτλ, ΗΠΑ
Ναι, δεν υπάρχει Twin Peaks. Όμως όσα είδαμε στην θρυλική σειρά του David Lynch συνέβησαν στα περίχωρα της μεγαλύτερης πόλης της πολιτείας της Ουάσινγκτον, το Σιάτλ. Η πεδιάδα Snoqualmie, που βρίσκεται στους πρόποδες των λόφων ανατολικά του Σιάτλ, ήταν ένα από τα πιο αγαπημένα μέρη του σκηνοθέτη.
Pandora («Avatar») – Καουάι, Χαβάη
Ο πανέμορφος πλανήτης Pandora που είδαμε σε τρισδιάστατη προβολή στην ταινία «Avatar» και μας άφησε με το στόμα ανοιχτό, έχει κι αυτός μια πραγματική τοποθεσία που μπορείτε να επισκεφτείτε. Βρίσκεται στην Χαβάη στο νησί Καουάι, όπου το δάσος είναι παραμυθένιο. Φυσικά, υπάρχουν κι άλλα πράγματα να κάνεις στην Χαβάη και η 50η πολιτεία των ΗΠΑ δεν περίμενε την ταινία του James Cameron για να γίνει τουριστική. Αλλά αυτό το δάσος πρέπει να το ξέρετε.
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Article 7
Ανακαλύφθηκε το 1929
στη Θεσσαλονίκη η
σαρκοφάγος 'Ελλάδα', με στοιχεία για τον Μ. Αλεξανδρο
AEMTHΗ Ελλάδα ήταν -μάλλον- Αθηναία, αλλά έζησε, πέθανε και θάφτηκε, στα Ρωμαϊκά χρόνια, στη Θεσσαλονίκη. 90 χρόνια μετά την ανακάλυψή της, οι αποθήκες οπού ήταν κλεισμένη άνοιξαν, προκειμένου να ψηφιοποιηθούν και να μελετηθούν εκ νέου.
Όπως προέκυψε από τις εισηγήσεις των Π. Αδάμ-Βελένη - Α. Τουλουμτζίδου, «...Το όνομα Ελλάς απαντά μόλις δύο φορές στη Μακεδονία, αλλά πέντε φορές στην Αθήνα. Σε συνδυασμό με την αττική προέλευση της σαρκοφάγου και τις ομοιότητες της παράστασης με χάλκινες κοπές της Αθήνας θα μπορούσε ίσως να υποτεθεί μια καταγωγή της Ελλάδος από την Αθήνα».
AEMTHΗ προϊστορία
Η Ελλάδα (βαπτιστικό όνομα γυναίκας), βρέθηκε ενώ πραγματοποιούνταν εργασίες για τη διάνοιξη της οδού Λαγκαδά το 1929. Στο εσωτερικό της εντυπωσιακής μαρμάρινης, με παράσταση αμαζονομαχίας, σαρκοφάγου βρέθηκε ένα χρυσό δακτυλίδι με έγγλυφη προτομή Αθηνάς στη σφενδόνη του και χαραγμένο γύρω της το όνομα της κατόχου του στην δοτική (ΕΛΛΑΔΙ). Η ογκώδης και βαρύτατη σαρκοφάγος μεταφέρθηκε στο Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο Θεσσαλονίκης (αρχικά στο Γενί Τζαμί και ύστερα από 33 χρόνια, το 1962, στο σημερινό Αρχαιολογικό Μουσείο της πόλης), τα λιγοστά κτερίσματα συγκεντρώθηκαν πρόχειρα, καταγράφηκαν και «καταχώθηκαν» στις αποθήκες του, κοντά στην Πύλη της Καλαμαριάς, και περιείχε οστά ζεύγους και ξύλινο κιβώτιο με χρυσά κοσμήματα.
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AEMTHΤα κοσμήματα
Κάτοχοι των ενεπίγραφων και μη σαρκοφάγων ήταν Ρωμαίοι πολίτες της εποχής (1ος-3ος μ.Χ αιώνας) με εξέχουσες θέσεις που τους επέτρεπαν να «κοσμούνται» και μετά θάνατο με χρυσά δακτυλίδια, διπλές χρυσές δανάκες (με κεφαλή μάλιστα Μ. Αλεξάνδρου), περίαπτα με απεικονίσεις της Τύχης - Fortuna με πηδάλιο και κέρας Αμάλθειας, ένα περίαπτο σε σχήμα λύχνου, κοσμήματα με τη μορφή του Θεού (υγείας) Ασκληπιού, ένα χρυσό δακτυλίδι με γαλάζιο ζαφείρι σπάνιου τύπου καθώς αρχικά ανήκε σε ενώτιο, όπως δηλώνει το σχεδόν δακρυόσχημο σχήμα του και μια μικρή οπή στο στενότερο άκρο του, διπλή χρυσή δανάκη (νόμισμα) με κεφαλή Μ. Αλεξάνδρου στη μία όψη και γυμνού Μ. Αλεξάνδρου καθισμένου σε βράχο και Βουκεφάλα στην άλλη. Περιμετρικά υπάρχει η επιγραφή ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ, αλλά κι ένα χρυσό δακτυλίδι με δακτυλιόλιθο από σαρδόνυχα, που απεικονίζει ανάγλυφα τη χειραψία ενός ανδρικού και ενός γυναικείου χεριού, συνοδευόμενη από την επιγραφή ΟΜΟΝΟΙΑ.
Όπως τονίστηκε στην εισήγηση, «Γενικά η χειραψία των δεξιών χεριών στον ρωμαϊκό κόσμο, συμβόλιζε την αμοιβαία πίστη στο κλείσιμο μιας συμφωνίας ή συμβολαίου. Δακτυλίδια με όμοιες απεικονίσεις, συχνά συνοδευόμενα από την επιγραφή ΟΜΟΝΟΙΑ αποτελούσαν ωστόσο δακτυλίδια γάμου που δίδονταν από τον μέλλοντα σύζυγο στη γυναίκα, για να φορεθεί στο μεσαίο δάκτυλο του αριστερού χεριού καθώς η φλέβα που ξεκινούσε από αυτό το δάκτυλο θεωρούνταν πως κατέληγε στην καρδιά...».
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AEMTH«Συνοψίζοντας, ο μικρός αριθμός των χρυσών κοσμημάτων στις ασύλητες σαρκοφάγους δεν συνιστά ένδειξη ένδειας των κατόχων τους αλλά πιθανότατα σχετίζεται με τη μαρτυρημένη κληροδότηση των περιουσιακών στοιχείων στους συγγενείς, αφήνοντας στους νεκρούς την πολυτέλεια της κατοχής των απολύτως προσωπικών αντικειμένων, όπως των σφραγιστικών δακτυλιδιών. Στις δύσκολες οικονομικές συνθήκες που επικρατούσαν στη Μακεδονία κατά τον 3ο αι. μ.Χ., στη σκιά των βαρβαρικών επιδρομών, τη θέση του χαρώνειου οβολού λαμβάνουν σπανιότερα τα χρυσά νομίσματα και συχνότερα οι δανάκες, οι οποίες αποτυπώνουν με ενάργεια στην περίπτωση αυτών που απεικονίζουν τον Μ. Αλέξανδρο, την παραμυθία που αναζητά η άρχουσα τάξη στην αναπόληση του ένδοξου παρελθόντος».
(Με πληροφορίες από ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ)
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Article 6
Βράβευση του Δήμου Θεσσαλονίκης για την Ανακύκλωση Ειδικών Ρευμάτων
Με το βραβείο για την Ανακύκλωση Ειδικών Ρευμάτων, στην κατηγορία διαχείρισης αστικών στερεών αποβλήτων, τιμήθηκε ο Δήμος Θεσσαλονίκης στη 2η Διεθνή Έκθεση Verde – Tec 2018, που πραγματοποιήθηκε στο ΜEC Παιανίας (υπό την αιγίδα του Υπουργείου Περιβάλλοντος και Ενέργειας, της ΚΕΔΕ, του ΤΕΕ, του ΕΟΑΝ και λοιπών φορέων).
Ο Δήμος παρουσίασε το πρωτοποριακό πρόγραμμά του για την ανάπτυξη πληθώρας ειδικών ρευμάτων ανακύκλωσης, που αξιολογήθηκε από την ειδική επιστημονική επιτροπή της διοργάνωσης (μεταξύ άλλων, ελαστικά και μπαταρίες δημοτικών οχημάτων, οχήματα τέλους κύκλου ζωής, απόβλητα εκσκαφών – κατασκευών – κατεδαφίσεων, ρούχα – υποδήματα, πλαστικά καπάκια, σχολικά βιβλία και χαρτί, φελιζόλ).
Το βραβείο απονεμήθηκε στο Γενικό Γραμματέα, κ. Θωμά Ψαρρά, υπεύθυνο του Δήμου για τον τομέα Καθαριότητας και Ανακύκλωσης, από τον κ. Γ. Πατούλη, πρόεδρο της ΚΕΔΕ.
Ο Δήμος Θεσσαλονίκης εντείνει την προσπάθεια προκειμένου η ανακύκλωση να ενσωματωθεί στην καθημερινότητα των δημοτών.
Πληροφορίες για δράσεις ανακύκλωσης και κυκλικής οικονομίας: εδώ
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Article 5
What Is It Like to Live
Alone on an Island
for 30 Years?
Mauro Morandi has been the sole resident of Budelli, Italy, for
decades, but that time may be coming to an end.
In 1989, Mauro Morandi set sail from Gallipoli, in Apulia, southern Italy, with the goal of reaching Polynesia. “I had enough of society,” the now 79-year-old Morandi says. “I was dreaming of a desert island in the Pacific where to start life anew.”
A few days after leaving, he landed on Budelli, less than a square mile in Italy’s Maddalena archipelago, in the Strait of Bonifacio between Sardinia and Corsica.“There were a lot of tourists, so I thought I could make some money taking them around the islands,” he says. “I owed some money to the bank.”
At the time, Budelli was owned by a property firm that employed a caretaker and his wife to watch over it. Morandi met the couple and started to wonder if he could take over for them. “He told me his wife did not like the lifestyle,” Morandi says. “Some find it too crowded in the summer and too lonely during winter, but I do not mind.”
A few weeks later, he had the job. He has been living and working on Budelli as its sole official guardian ever since. But now his cherished autonomy may be coming to an end. “It’s been two years that I don’t leave Budelli, as I am not sure they would let me go back,” he says, concern in his voice.
Before the dispute started, Morandi used to break his isolation twice a year to visit his daughters in central Italy. Because he was legally employed by the owner, he was assured of his return to his solar-fueled hut. In 2011, however, the island was put up for sale. That’s when his trouble started. Two years later it was purchased, only to be later taken over by the government and made part of a national park. “I now live in a state of uncertainty,” he says. “The island is owned by La Maddalena National Park and they could kick me out anytime.” Morandi has returned to the fold of Italy’s Kafkaesque bureaucracy—part of the reason he left on his sailboat in the first place.
He had none of these concerns in his first, idyllic winter on the island, in 1989. “At the time I hated people,” he says. “During winter I could finally enjoy the beauty of this island by myself.” Sometimes, during the cold season, sunlight shines in a way the reminds him of some his favorite paintings by German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich.
But winters can also be cruel, with punishing winds wreaking havoc on the few short shrubs that grow among the rocks. To Morandi, this harsh side of nature is part of its beauty. “My best memory here is a storm in 1991,” he recalls. On that occasion winds reached a speed of 104 knots—an intensity that hadn’t been seen in 200 years.
“The wind was so strong and made a howling sound that I have never heard before,” he says. Waves reached 18 feet and were breaking far beyond the beach. “I realized that humans are nothing against nature,” he says, with a taut voice. “Even with all of our technology, we are nothing but small ants.”
But technology did penetrate Morandi’s isolation over the years. Three years ago, a private company installed a wireless router nearby to provide a internet access to tourists visiting the park. “I did not even know what an iPad was,” he says, “but now I have accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.”
Morandi’s primary creative outlet used to be crafting design objects out of juniper logs that washed on the beach. It has since been replaced by photography to fuel his social feeds. “I used to be more egoistic,” he admits. “But now I want to share this beauty with everyone around the world.” His social media output now reaches hundreds of thousands of people all over the world.
On a typical winter day, Morandi wakes up around 7:30 in the morning, makes some coffee, and begins the workday in and around his hut, from cutting up logs for heating to cleaning and cooking. After lunch, he wanders his personal paradise, taking photos of sandy beaches, rocky inlets, and the ever-changing Mediterranean sky. “I used to read a lot, mainly Mitteleuropean thinkers like Kant and Schopenhauer,” he says. “But now I mostly take photos and then go back to edit them.”
Friends on a nearby island come by every ten days to bring him groceries and supplies, but less frequently in the winter. “Friends come all the time during summer,” he says, at that moment 25 days from his last supply drop. “In winter, not so much. So tonight I am going to eat wild nettles sauteed with some butter.”
During fall, winter, and spring, he can forage for the wild herbs typical of the macchia, or the shrubland biome characteristic of the Mediterranean: wild beets, asparagus, garlic, rosemary, leeks. “Spring is when everything blossoms,” he says. “Starting from the end of February you get a strong scent of wild rosemary.” During the summer, the strong sunshine and stiff wind dries out everything apart from few evergreen shrubs such as rock roses and the occasional wild white lily. “Lillies have such as strong smell,” he says. “In the summer the evening breeze takes the scent right into my hut.”
Myrtle, from which local herbal digestive Mirto is made, are another sight. “Myrtle berries are usually harvested in fall, but this year it did not rain for 10 months straight, so there were very few berries.”
Morandi has seen, year on year, changes in his corner of the world. Last summer was an abnormally hot one, he says. “Temperatures reached 116 degrees in inland Sardinia and around 109 here in Budelli.” He has noticed fewer fish in the shallow waters around the island. “I spoke to some fishermen and they told me it’s because coastal water gets too hot so fish go deeper to look for cooler temperatures.”
Winds are changing, too. Usually, his part of the archipelago is swept by westerly winds, but now the breeze is coming from the other direction. “Easterly winds erode the beach,” he says. “You can already see the impact.” The storms have grown longer and stronger, too.
So during high season, when tourists visit the island by boat, Budelli’s caretaker spends his days talking to visitors about conservation. “In the summer my life changes completely,” he says. “I am busy lecturing and giving tours of the island from dawn to sunset.” Lectures take place in a separate small hut equipped with wooden benches and samples of rocks and corals. Sometimes, a friend translates his words into English. “Children are more receptive than adults,” he notes. “They like to hear this sort of Robinson Crusoe guy talking about nature.”
“I teach kids that nature is not something to be used,” Morandi says. “It’s something we need to to protect.” He is mainly referring to one of Budelli’s most famous and infamous features, its pink beach, one reason that some consider it one of the most beautiful islands in the world.
Famously featured in Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1976 film Red Desert, the pink beach, or spiaggia rosa, owes its color to a distinctive blend of crystals, fossils, and corals such as Miriapora truncata and Miniacina miniacea.
When Sardinia and its surrounding archipelagos became an emerging tourist destination during the 1980s, masses of tourists flowed to Budelli to see its famous spiaggia rosa, and many took handfuls of the sand home with them. By 1994, this practice was taking a toll. The beach turned whitish, and soon tourists were no longer allowed to set foot on it. Part of Morandi’s job became to enforce the ban. “In the past three or four years the pink started to come back,” he says. But now he is worried that he won’t be there to see the beach return completely to its former glory.
After Budelli was put up for auction in 2011 following the bankruptcy of the property firm that owned it, it was eventually sold to Michael Harte, a banker from New Zealand, who allegedly wanted to convert it into biological preserve with an eco-resort. The plan did not go over well with local authorities. The dispute went on for years, during which time Morandi did not hide his support for Harte. “I know perfectly well that things run by the government do not work,” he explains, “while this guy, Michael Harte, had already done eco-reserves in New Zealand.”
In 2016, Harte withdrew his proposal and the island officially became Italian property. Morandi thinks that his open support for Harte put him in a bad light with authorities. “I was sure they would have tried to kick me out,” he says. Indeed, about a year ago, he received a notice of eviction due to some irregularities with the way his hut was built prior to his arrival on the island. “But I know how long these kind of legal matters take,” he says. “I am not going anywhere.”
Currently, the national park has nominated a new president, who may change his view over the caretaker’s right to stay. In the meantime, the man who has spent most of his adult life living there, and some of his followers, have started petitions to support his right to live there. One was titled, “I would like that Mauro Morandi, former caretaker of Budelli, could stop living in terror.”
He doesn’t really find “terror” an apt description of his current situation. “I am not afraid,” he says. “I am used to living in uncertainty.” The first owner of the island apparently had stopped paying him after five years, so he has faced the prospect of leaving—for financial reasons, in that case—before. But this time is different, in part because the freedom he had once so coveted there is now twisted in on itself. “I could always leave and come back before,” he says. “Now, I depend on people to come here.”
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Article 4
A BBC Radio Show
Asks Celebrities to Pick
Desert Island Discs
IF THE PRODUCER SIMON COWELL were cast away on a desert island, he told the BBC in 2006, choosing a luxury item to while away the days with would be an easy task. “A mirror,” he told the English broadcaster Sue Lawley, who wondered aloud if he were joking. “It’s true,” he replied. “Because I’d miss me.” “Are you going to let us broadcast that?” she asked. “I don’t care,” said Cowell. “What, I’m on my own, no one else is around, I might as well have something, I’ll have a mirror.”
For 76 years, these kinds of extraordinary exchanges have taken place on a British radio show called Desert Island Discs, where famous, illustrious, or just plain interesting people are tasked with imagining themselves as island “castaways.” Every Sunday morning, over the course of an hour-long interview, these guests choose eight records to share with the public, as a kind of soundtrack to their lives. At the end at the program, they must choose just one piece of music—these days, often a pop song; when the show started, usually a longer piece of a classical music—to take to an unspecified desert island, along with a work of literature and a luxury item of their choosing. They are also given the Complete Works of Shakespeare and the Bible (or an equivalent religious text) as freebies.
The show plays each week on the BBC’s Radio 4, a primarily spoken-word channel that bookends drama, comedy, science, and history with snippets of news. For many Brits, it is part of the aural tapestry of being in the kitchen at home: the gurgle of an electric kettle, drizzle outside the window, and the quiet hum of Radio 4. Each week, around 3 million people will listen to Desert Island Discs, which has been hosted by the Scottish broadcaster Kirsty Young since 2006. Some do actively tune in, but many will simply wander into the kitchen at some point during the program and decide to keep on listening—depending on the guest.
The program was created in 1942 by its first presenter, Roy Plomley, whose interviews often dwelled on the specifics of life on the island, and whether his guests, like Margaret Thatcher in 1978, were any good at camping. For the entirety of its run, the show has opened to the strains of a sing-song orchestral valse, By the Sleepy Lagoon, by the composer Eric Coates, who himself appeared on the program in 1951. Herring gulls shriek over the top of the music, to give a desert island “feel.” When it was pointed out in the 1960s that they were native to the northern hemisphere, and would not have been found on a tropical island, they were briefly replaced with more authentic sooty terns. Listeners complained, and the gulls returned for good.
More than 3,000 people have appeared on the program in these nearly eight decades. Among the ‘D’s alone are Davids Attenborough (three times!), Walliams, Mitchell, and Beckham; Dames Judi Dench and Zaha Hadid; Dukes and Duchesses of Devonshire and Westminster. In the show’s back catalog are musicians, actors, authors, and doctors; politicians, pundits, designers, and tycoons. Some guests have mass appeal, like the actors Tom Hanks or George Clooney. Others have simply lived extraordinary lives, like the Wales-born vascular surgeon, David Nott. He described making life or death decisions in Aleppo and nearly broke down in tears as he told Young about returning home to his wife, after being in Syria.
Appearing on the show has become a point of pride. Speaking at the Cheltenham Literary Festival in 2012, the producer Leanne Buckle told the audience that celebrities often wrote in to the program, asking to appear on it. “I wrote a really kind letter saying we were pleased they liked the program,” she said of one anonymous letter-writer. “The person wrote back to say really I ought to reconsider my decision because they were very interesting. I wrote back again politely declining. Then their daughter wrote and said, ‘If my father has a heart attack it will be your fault!’”
But there are still a few hold-outs. At the same festival, Young described Elizabeth IIas her dream guest. “There is quite a long list. It’s never going to happen, but Her Majesty would be wonderful.” The playwright Sir Alan Bennett, who last appeared on the program in 1967, is high up on the list, she said, as was Rolling Stone Mick Jagger.
For its audience, part of the pleasure of the show lies in choosing your own imaginary songs. Would you opt for your all-time favorites, or the ones that had really summed up your life, no matter how questionable? (An even greater pleasure, perhaps, is knowing that you probably won’t ever have to appear on the show, and reveal your musical tastes to the world.) Speaking on the show in 2006, the restaurant critic A. A. Gill said he’d been planning his list since he was a child, while the actor Patrick Stewart claimed to have carried round a list of his top eight song choices, on the off-chance he was asked to appear.
But listeners don’t necessarily tune in for the music choices. Instead, it’s the interviews which often draw people in, to reap moments of incredible personal candor from the guests. Sometimes, these come in the choice of a luxury item—a worrying number of people have asked for a blow-up doll. At other times, such moments arrive simply through beautiful, considered answers. Behind the scenes, Young and her producers will spend hours researching the lives of the people they’ll interview, so that the perfect, searching question, when it comes, is almost never an accident. She’ll prepare sartorially too, she told Radio Times, donning an open-neck shirt for Bill Gates and a sharp suit for Paul Weller. “And we had it on good authority that Morrissey drinks neat vodka, so we made sure we had a bottle,” Young told the magazine. “When my producer said, ‘Would you like some tea or coffee… or vodka?’ Morrissey said, ‘Vodka.’ I had one as well. I wasn’t going to have a cup of tea when Morrissey was having a vodka. I didn’t drink it, he did.”
At the end of the program, having chosen their eight records, guests must select just one song with which to spend eternity on a desert island. Sometimes, this is the hardest part—harder, even, than choosing the original eight, or engaging with Young’s courteous cross-examination. For the actress Judi Dench, it was near-impossible. “I will take…” she began. “Hm. I don’t want any of these. I don’t want to go to the island. I don’t want any of those records with me. What’ll I take?” She paused, startled by the question. “I’ll take… Sinatra. … What a nightmare.”
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Article 2
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Article 6
GOTHAM PROJECT
Αριστούργημα ναυπηγικής επηρεασμένοσχεδιαστικά από τη μάσκα του Batman
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