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 Topic: Today in History of CulturePosted: 05-Mar-2012 at 20:09 |
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I'm making this thread for the same reason I opened the American History one - there are too many events to post in one post. This one is only for events that happened in history on music, art, literature, etc, cultural events; I will do some events ins science too, but not spor events because this will result in too long posts, something I want to avoid. I'm going to use one and the same link http://www.historyorb.com/events/march/5 just skimming the cultural event - I want to save some time while posting, so instead of quoting the same link every day, I'll just say "ibid".
March 5th: 1616 - Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index 1743 - 1st US religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston 1750 - 1st American Shakespearean production-"altered" Richard III, NYC 1807 - 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B 1856 - Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire 1868 - Arrigo Boito's opera "Mefistofele," premieres in Milan 1897 - American Negro Academy forms 1899 - 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Concerto in D 1900 - American Hall of Fame found 1904 - Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of the ball lightning formation. 1907 - 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired 1910 - Ramon Inclan's "La Farsa Infantil de la Cabeza del Dragon," premieres 1922 - "Nosferatu" premieres in Berlin 1942 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony, premieres in Siberia 1952 - Terence Rattigan's "Deep Blue Sea," premieres in London 1954 - "Girl in Pink Tights" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 115 perfs 1955 - Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance on "Louisiana Hayride" show 1955 - WBBJ TV channel 7 in Jackson, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting 1956 - "King Kong," 1st televised 1960 - The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis originates when Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase. 1965 - 1st performance of Walter Piston's 8th Symphony 1978 - "Hello, Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 152 perfs 1979 - Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles) 1980 - Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49 1981 - "Bring Back Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 4 perfs 1995 - Graves of czar Nicholas & family found in St Petersburg |
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Posted: 06-Mar-2012 at 23:46 |
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Today, March 6th:
1079 - Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar 1447 - Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V 1521 - Magellan discovers Guam 1646 - Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent 1665 - Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing 11808 - 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard 1831 - Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula," premieres in Milan 1831 - Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point milt academy 1831 - Vincenzo Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula," premieres in Milan 1836 - HMS Beagle/Darwin reaches King George's Sound, Australia 1838 - Franz Grillparzer's "Weh dem, der Lugt," premieres in Vienna 1851 - Dion Boucicault's "Love in a Maze," premieres in London 1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata," premieres in Venice 1855 - Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to Louise Colet 1869 - Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society. 1899 - "Asprin" patented by Felix Hoffmann 1909 - Gerhart Hauptmann's "Griselda," premieres in Vienna 1921 - Police in Sunbury Penn issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee 1922 - GB Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh III/IV," premieres in NYC 1945 - Federico Garcia Lorca's "La Casa," premieres in Buenos Aires 1955 - Dutch premiere of Samuel Becketts' "Waiting for Godot" 1967 - Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US 1967 - WACS TV channel 25 in Dawson, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting 1970 - Beatles release "Let it Be" in UK 1974 - "Over Here" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 341 performances 1980 - Princess Theater (Latin Quarter, Cotton Club) opens at 200 W 48th NYC 1980 - French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar) 1981 - Soyuz 39 returns to Earth 1986 - Ken Ludwig's "Lend me a Tenor," premieres in London 1986 - USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km |
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Posted: 07-Mar-2012 at 21:16 |
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March 7th
321 - Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire. 1277 - Condemnation of 219 philosophical and theological theses by Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris. 1530 - King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church 1778 - Capt James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay 1824 - Meyerbeers opera "Il Crociati in Egitto," premieres in Venice 1835 - HMS Beagle returns from Concepcion to Valparaiso 1852 - Dutch telegraph traffic regulated by law 1854 - Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes 1896 - Gilbert & Sullivan's last operette "Grand Duke," premieres in London 1906 - Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor 1917 - 1st jazz record "Dixie Jazz Band One Step," recorded by Nick LaRocca Original Dixieland Jazz Band, released by RCA Victor in Camden NJ 1925 - American Negro Congress organizes 1926 - 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-NY) 1939 - Guy Lombardo & Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne" 1946 - Max Frisch' "Santa Cruz," premieres in Zurich 1951 - Lillian Hellman's "Autumn Garden," premieres in NYC 1955 - Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised 1959 - "Bells Are Ringing" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 925 perfs 1959 - 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow) 1962 - Beatles made their broadcasting debut on BBC radio 1966 - "Wait A Minim!" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 457 performances 1968 - The BBC broadcasts the news for the first time in color on television. URS) 1981 - "Bring Back Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 4 perfs 1994 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use. 1995 - Dollar worth 1.5330 Dutch guilder (record) 1995 - NY becomes 38th state to have the death penalty 1996 - 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope) |
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Posted: 09-Mar-2012 at 01:16 |
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Today, March 8th:
1813 - 1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic 1884 - 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Piano suite 1898 - Richard Straus' "Don Quixote," premieres in Keulen 1902 - 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony 1908 - Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, NY 1939 - Lenore Coffee & William Joyce Cowan's "Family Portrait," premieres 1945 - "Kiss Me Kate" opens in Britain 1948 - Supreme Court rules relg instructions in pub schools unconstitutional 1953 - "Two's Company" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 90 performances 1957 - 1st performance of David Diamond's 6th Symphony in Boston 1960 - "Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 95 performances 1961 - Jean Kerr's "Mary, Mary," premieres in NYC 1966 - "Golden Boy" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 569 performances 1980 - The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union. 1981 - "Shakespeare's Cabaret" closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 54 perfs 1987 - "A Team," last aired on NBC-TV after 4 years 1989 - "Heidi Chronicles" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 621 performances |
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Posted: 10-Mar-2012 at 00:45 |
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March 9th:
1497 - Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation 1500 - Pedro Cabral departs with 13 ships to India 1522 - -16] Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit 1562 - Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death) 1640 - Pierre Corneilles "Horace," premieres in Paris 1697 - Czar Peter the Great begins tour of West-Europe 1765 - After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son had actually committed suicide. 1776 - Publication of the economics book The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. 1842 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Nabucco," premieres in Milan 1844 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Hernani," premieres in Venice 1849 - Carl Nikolais opera "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor," premieres 1858 - Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox 1868 - The opera "Hamlet" premieres in Paris 1882 - False teeth patented 1897 - Premiere of (parts of) Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony (Berlin) 1907 - Lady Gregory's "Rising of the Moon," premieres in Dublin 1961 - Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit 1963 - Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe & Chris Montez 1964 - 1st Ford Mustang produced 1984 - John Lennon releases "Borrowed Time" 1986 - Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km |
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Posted: 10-Mar-2012 at 22:24 |
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Today, March 10th:
418 - Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire 1535 - Bishop Tomés de Berlanga discovers Galapagos Islands 1578 - Queen Elizabeth I gives Johan Casimir £20,000 to aid Dutch rebellion 1629 - King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later 1661 - French King Louis XIV ends office of premier 1791 - Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy 1847 - 1st money minted in Hawaii 1888 - 1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Psyche" 1906 - 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Sonatine" 1940 - 1st US opera telecast, W2XBS, NYC, I Pagliacci 1948 - 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound-Herb H Hoover, Edwards AFB Ca 1951 - "Where's Charley?" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 56 perfs 1973 - Morocco adopts constitution 1975 - "Rocky Horror Show" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances 1975 - Dog spectacles patented in England 1977 - Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO 1978 - Soyuz 28 returns to Earth 1990 - 4th American Comedy Award: When Harry Met Sally 1994 - 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral 2006 - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars. |
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Posted: 11-Mar-2012 at 20:10 |
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Today, March 11:
843 - Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia Constantinople 1302 - Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare 1513 - Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X 1702 - 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant," publishes 1708 - Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation. 1791 - Samuel Mulliken, Phila, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent 1794 - Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens 1810 - Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise 1812 - Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews 1823 - 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt 1835 - HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile 1850 - Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school) 1851 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto," premieres in Venice 1851 - The first performance of Rigoletto, written by Verdi. 1867 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos," premieres in Paris 1918 - Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia 1924 - Eden Phillpotts' "Farmer's Wife," premieres in London 1959 - "Raisin in the Sun," 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens 1967 - Pink Floyd releases their 1st single (Arnold Layne) 1968 - Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting 1968 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet 1968 - Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for " Dock of the Bay" 1972 - "Inner City" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 97 performances 1995 - Pres Nazarbajev disbands Kazachstan parliament 1996 - The EU Database Directive is passed. 1997 - Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space 1997 - Beatle McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen 2003 - The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague. |
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Posted: 13-Mar-2012 at 00:02 |
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Today, March 12:
1365 - University of Vienna founded 1572 - Luis Vaz de Camoes publishes "Os Lusíados" in Portugal 1642 - Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand 1664 - 1st naturalization act in American colonies 1737 - Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy 1755 - 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine 1832 - The ballet La Sylphide first premieres at the Opéra de Paris. 1857 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra," premieres in Venice 1884 - Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women 1894 - In Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time. 1896 - 1st movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220) 1897 - Vincent d'Indy's opera "Fervaal," premieres in Brussel 1904 - Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund 1934 - Paul Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Berlin 1947 - "Chocolate Soldier" opens at Century Theater NYC for 69 performances 1950 - Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda" 1954 - 1st performance of Arnold Schoenberg's "Moses und Aaron" 1958 - British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day" 1963 - Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold 1966 - Pioneer Plaza dedicated 1981 - Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station 1981 - Stephen Sondheim's musical "Marry Me a Little," premieres in NYC 1982 - PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline" 1998 - "Sound of Music," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC 1999 - Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO. |
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Posted: 13-Mar-2012 at 21:15 |
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March 13:
483 - St Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope 607 - 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1519 - Cortez lands in Mexico 1634 - Academie Francaise opens
1639 - Cambridge College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard |
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Posted: 15-Mar-2012 at 18:01 |
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Today, March 15
1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage 1545 - First meeting of the Council of Trent. 1778 - Nootka Sound, Vancouver Is discovered by Capt Cook 1812 - 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River 1827 - Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes 1827 - University of Toronto is chartered 1867 - Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university 1875 - 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested 1885 - 1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Lesson Djinns" 1887 - 1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan) 1892 - 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC) 1908 - 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole" 1916 - University of Gent goes under Dutch control 1922 - 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia) 1934 - US Information Service opens 1937 - 1st blood bank forms (Chicago IL) 1937 - 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh NC) 1940 - Goering says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest 1945 - Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens 1950 - "Consul" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 269 performances 1950 - Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Consul," premieres in NYC 1956 - "My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 perfs 1958 - "Body Beautiful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 60 performances 1959 - Richard Rogers' "No Strings" opens on Broadway 1960 - Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park) 1960 - National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated 1962 - 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter 1964 - LBJ asks for a War on Poverty 1965 - LBJ asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote 1968 - Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept," but wouldn't prohibit rock & roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri 1970 - Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan 1970 - Gary Geld & Peter Udell's "Purlie," premieres in NYC 1988 - Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop 1988 - NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK 1989 - "Les Miserables," opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto 1998 - "Cabaret," opens at Club Expo Theater NYC Edited by Don Quixote - 15-Mar-2012 at 19:56 |
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Posted: 16-Mar-2012 at 14:09 |
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March 16
1079 - Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar 1190 - Jews of York England commit mass sucide rather than submit to baptism 1249 - The Servite Order is officially approved by Cardinal Raniero Capocci, papal legate in Tuscany. 1345 - Holy spirit glides above fire: "the miracle of Amsterdam" (legend) 1517 - Pope Leo X signs 5th Council of Lateranen 1521 - Magelhaes' fleet discovers Zamal (Samar) 1521 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines 1822 - Composer Gioacchino Rossini marries Spanish soprano 1827 - 1st US black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (NYC), begins publishing 1829 - Ohio authorizes high school night classes 1834 - HMS Beagle anchors at Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands 1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published 1867 - First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet. 1871 - 1st fertilizer law enacted 1882 - US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross 1894 - Jules Massenet's opera "Thaïs," premieres in Paris 1896 - Premiere of Mahler's "Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen" 1897 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Devil's Foot" (BG) 1900 - Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus 1916 - James Barries' "Kiss for Cinderella," premieres in London 1938 - Noel Coward's musical "Operette," premieres in London 1941 - Dmitri Shostakovitch receives the Stalin Prize 1941 - National Gallery of Art opens in Wash DC 1962 - 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket 1969 - "1776" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1217 performances 1970 - New English Bible published 1975 - "Lieutenant" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 9 performances 1978 - Soyuz 26 returns to Earth |
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Posted: 17-Mar-2012 at 22:21 |
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Today, March 17th:
432 - St Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines 1521 - Magelhaes lands on Homohon 1753 - 1st official St Patrick's Day 1804 - Friedrich Schiller's play "Wilhelm Tell" premieres 1847 - "Macbeth" opera premieres in Florence 1906 - The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. 1917 - Delta Phi Epsilon is founded at New York University Law School. 1924 - Eugene O'Neill's "Welded," premieres in NYC 1926 - Richard Rodgers & L Hart's musical "Girl Friend," premieres in NYC 1943 - F Hugh Herbert's "Kiss & Tell," premieres in NYC 1950 - Element 98 (Californium) announced 1959 - Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India 1972 - Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK 1978 - Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre," premieres in Stockholm 1988 - "Les Miserables," opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo 1989 - "Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances 1991 - John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire," premieres in NYC 1991 - NJ raises turnpike tolls 70% 1992 - "Death & the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 159 perfs 1994 - "Little More Magic" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 30 performances 1995 - USt approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck & Co 1996 - "Bus Stop" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 29 performances 1996 - "Getting Away With Murder" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 17 perfs |
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March 18:
1541 - Hernan de Soto observes 1st recorded flood in America (Mississippi R) 1773 - Oliver Goldsmith' "She Stoops to Conquer," premieres in London 1810 - "Converse," 1st US opera, premieres in NY 1813 - David Melville, Newport, RI, patents apparatus for making coal gas 1834 - 1st railroad tunnel in US completed, in Penn (275 m long) 1847 - 1st Dutch public telegram 1850 - Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American Express in Buffalo 1891 - Britain is linked to the continent by Telephone 1895 - 200 blacks leave Savannah, Ga for Liberia 1899 - Phoebe, a moon of Saturn is discovered by Pickering 1902 - Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record 1902 - Schoenberg's "Verklärte Nacht," premieres in Vienna 1904 - 1st performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)" 1909 - Einar Dessau of Denmark makes 1st ham broadcast 1910 - 1st opera by an US composer (Converse) performed at the Met, NYC 1920 - Greece adopts the Gregorian calendar 1929 - Dmitri Shostakovitch' "The new Babylon," premieres in Leningrad 1931 - 1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick) 1933 - Radio Clube de Mocambique's, 1st radio transmission 1950 - "Touch & Go" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 176 performances 1963 - "Tovarich" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 264 performances 1965 - "Do I Hear a Waltz?" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 220 performances 1965 - USSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes 1st spacewalk (20 mins) 1965 - Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space. 1966 - "Pousse Cafe" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 3 performances 1979 - "On the 20th Century" closes at St James Theater NYC after 460 perfs 1980 - Vostok rocket exploded on launch pad while being refueled, killing 50 1989 - 27th space shuttle mission, STS-29 (Discovery 8), returns to Earth 1989 - California Quake amusement ride opens at Universal Studios 1989 - In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Pyramid of Cheops. 1990 - 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists 1992 - "4 Baboons Adoring the Sun" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 38 perf 2003 - British Sign Language is recognised as an official British language. Edited by Don Quixote - 19-Mar-2012 at 01:08 |
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Today, March 19th:
1227 - Count Ugolino of Segna elected Pope Gregory IX 1524 - Giovanni de Varrazano of France sights land around area of Carolinas 1540 - Court of Holland names Amsterdam sheriff John Hubrechtsz a "heretic" 1563 - Peace of Amboise: Rights for Huguenots 1799 - Joseph Haydn's "Die Schopfung," premieres in Vienna 1803 - Friedrich Schiller's "Die Braut von Messina," premieres in Weimar 1822 - Boston, Mass incorporated as a city 1859 - Opera "Faust" by Charles Gounod premieres in Paris 1864 - Opera "Mireille" premieres in Paris 1870 - The opera "Guarany," premieres in Milan 1883 - Jan Matzeliger invents 1st machine to manufacture entire shoes 1906 - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's "Quattro Rusteghi," premieres in Munich 1915 - Pluto photographed for 1st time (although unknown at the time) 1918 - Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight saving time 1928 - "Amos & Andy" debuts on radio (NBC Blue Network-WMAQ Chicago) 1941 - Jimmy Dorsey & orchestra record "Green Eyes" & "Maria Elena" 1944 - Tippett's oratorium "Child of Our Time," premieres in London 1951 - Herman Wouk's "Caine Mutiny," published 1958 - Britain's 1st planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud's in London 1959 - "1st Impressions" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 84 performances 1960 - "Redhead" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 455 performances 1962 - "All American" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 80 performances 1964 - Sean Connery's 1st day of shooting on "Goldfinger" 1965 - Rembrandt's "Titus" sells for then record 7,770,000 gulden 1966 - "Pousse Cafe" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 3 performances 1968 - Howard University students seize administration building 1972 - "To Live Another Summer" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 173 perfs 1975 - "Dr Jazz" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 5 performances 1975 - Penn is 1st state to allow girls to compete with boys in HS sports 1977 - "Side by Side by Sondheim" closes at Music Box NYC after 390 perfs 1984 - "Kate & Allie," premieres 1985 - "Spin Magazine" begins publishing 1992 - "Master Builder" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances 1995 - "Translations" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 25 performances 1995 - "Uncle Vanya" closes at Circle in Sq Theater NYC after 29 performances 1998 - "Ah Wilderness!," opens at Vivian Beaumont theater 2008 - GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye was briefly observed on this day. |
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1649 - Parliament abolishes the House of Lords
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March 20th:
141 - 6th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1345 - Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction: thought "cause of plague epidemic" 1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published (Boston) 1885 - Yiddish theater opens in NY with Golldfaden operetta 1888 - Start of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure, "A Scandal in Bohemia" 1888 - The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta was staged in Moscow, Russia. 1897 - 1st US orthodox Jewish Rabbinical seminary (RIETS) incorporates in NY 1906 - George B Shaws "Captain Brassbound's Conversion," premieres in London 1914 - 1st international figure-skating tournament held in US, New Haven 1920 - 1st flight from London to South Africa lands (took 1½ months) 1935 - "Your Hit Parade" made its debut on radio 1952 - 24th Academy Awards - "American in Paris," H Bogart & Vivian Leigh win 1954 - "King & I" closes at St James Theater NYC after 1246 performances 1958 - Clandestine Burasi Bizim Radio (communist) begins transmitting 1958 - Greek Clandestine Radio (communist), Voice of Truth 1st transmission 1963 - 1st "Pop Art" exhibition (NYC) 1987 - Soviet filmmakers arrive in Hollywood for an entertainment summit 1994 - "Cyrano - The Musical" closes at Neil Simon NYC after 137 perfs 1994 - "Flowering Peach" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 41 performances 1994 - "No Man's Land" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 61 performances 1994 - 14th Golden Raspberry Awards: Indecent Proposal wins 1996 - "Love Thy Neighbor," opens at Booth Theater NYC 1997 - "Play On!," opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 61 performances |
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March 21th:
630 - Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem. 1492 - Alonzo Pietro, pilot, sailed with Columbus 1697 - Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe 1702 - Queen Anne Stuart addresses English parliament 1804 - French civil Code of Napoleon adopted 1826 - Beethoven's Quartet #13 in B flat major (Op 130) premiered in Vienna 1835 - Charles Darwin & Mariano Gonzales meet at Portillo Pass 1843 - Preacher William Miller of Mass predicts the world will end today 1844 - Origin of Baha'i Era-Baha'i calendar starts here (Baha 1, 1) 1851 - Yosemite Valley discovered in California 1859 - 1st Zoological Society incorporates (Phila) 1859 - Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh 1871 - Journalist Henry M Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa 1888 - Arthur Pinero's "Sweet Lavender," premieres in London 1925 - Iran adopts Khorshidi solar Hijrah calendar 1947 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Fulgens radiatur 1948 - "Stop the Music" with Bert Parks premieres on ABC radio 1952 - "3 Wishes for Jamie" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 94 perfs 1959 - "Juno" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 16 performances 1962 - A bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds 1965 - Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama 1966 - Supreme Court reverses Mass ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene 1982 - "Little Johnny Jones" opens & closes at Alvin Theater NYC 1990 - "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens at Eugene O'Neill NYC for 149 perfs 1990 - "Normal Life" starring Moon Unit & Dweezil Zappa premieres on CBS-TV 1990 - "Sydney" starring Valerie Bertinelli premieres on CBS-TV 1996 - "Night of the Iguana" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 68 perfs |
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Posted: 22-Mar-2012 at 19:40 |
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March 22nd:
752 - Stephen II elected Catholic Pope (or 23rd) 1457 - Gutenberg Bible became the 1st printed book 1733 - Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer) 1784 - The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand. 1822 - NY Horticultural Society founded 1841 - Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones) 1861 - 1st US nursing school chartered 1927 - Federico Garcia Lorca's "El Maleficio," premieres in Madrid 1928 - Noel Coward's musical "This Year of Grace," premieres in London 1935 - Blood tests authorized as evidence in court cases (NY) 1946 - 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up) 1954 - 1st shopping mall opened in Southfield, Mich 1956 - "Mr Wonderful" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 383 performances 1956 - Musical "Mr Wonderful" with Sammy Davis Jr premieres in NYC 1957 - Republic of India adopts Saka calendar along with Gregorian 1962 - "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" opens at Shubert NYC for 300 perfs 1963 - Beatles release 1st album, "Please Please Me" Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand 1964 - Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of NY Times 1969 - "Billy" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 1 performance 1969 - "Come Summer" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 7 performances 1970 - "Blood Red Roses" opens & closes at John Golden Theater NYC 1972 - "Selling of the President" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 5 perfs 1975 - "Dinge-competed" wins Eurovisie Song festival 1975 - "Dr Jazz" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 5 performances 1975 - "Letter for Queen Victoria" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 18 perfs 1978 - Rutle's "All You Need is Cash" is show on NBC-TV 1981 - Soyuz 39 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Mongolian) to Salyut 6 1981 - Toshihiko Seko runs world record 25k (1:13:55.8)/30k (1:29:18.8) 1990 - "Grapes of Wrath" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 188 performances 1990 - "Les Miserables," opens at Shunert Theatre, Boston 1991 - NY Daily News begins using motto "Forward with NY" 1992 - "Private Lives" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 37 performances 1997 - "Sunset Boulevard," closes at Minskoff NYC after 977 performances 1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU) |
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Don Quixote
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Posted: 23-Mar-2012 at 23:34 |
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March 23rd:
1066 - 18th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1174 - Jocelin, abbot of Melrose, is elected bishop of Glasgow. 1490 - 1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" published 1534 - Aragonese legal code formally recognised 1743 - George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London 1752 - Pope Stephen II elected to succeed Zacharias, died 2 days later 1775 - Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" 1794 - 1st US patent (Joseph G Pierson for a riveting machine) 1794 - Josiah Pierson patents a "cold-header" (rivet) machine 1839 - 1st known use of term OK (Boston) 1840 - Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype) 1857 - Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC) 1858 - Streetcar patented (E A Gardner of Phila) 1868 - University of California founded (Oakland California) 1880 - Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisc) 1889 - The free Woolwich Ferry officially opens in east London. 1889 - The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India. 1896 - Umberto Giordano's opera "Andrea Chénier," premieres in Milan 1929 - 1st telephone installed in White House 1933 - Kroll Opera in Berlin opens 1934 - US Congress accepts Philippines independence in 1945 1940 - 1st radio broadcast of "Truth or Consequences" on CBS 1949 - Sidney Kingsley's "Detective Story," premieres in NYC 1950 - "Great to Be Alive" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 52 perfs 1950 - 22rd Academy Awards - "All King's Men," Crawford & De Havilland win 1950 - UN World Meteorological Org established 1951 - Wages in France increase 11% 1973 - After a 5½ year run soap "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" ends 1976 - International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying) 1979 - Wings release "Goodnight Tonight" 1981 - Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men 1981 - Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought abortions 1985 - Julian Lennon's 1st concert (San Antonio Texas) 1987 - Soap "Bold & Beautiful" premieres 1989 - 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature 1995 - "How To Succeed in Business..." opens at R Rodgers NYC for 548 perfs 1997 - "Mandy Patinkin in Concert," closes at Lyceum Theater NYC 2001 - The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji. |
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Don Quixote
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Retired AE Moderator Joined: 29-Dec-2010 Online Status: Offline Posts: 4734 |
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Posted: 24-Mar-2012 at 12:05 |
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March 24st:
1721 - Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts 1792 - Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London 1837 - Canada gives blacks the right to vote 1883 - 1st telephone call between NY & Chicago 1887 - Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey) 1890 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" (BG) 1930 - Planet Pluto named 1932 - 1st US radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD) 1935 - Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network 1937 - National Gallery of Art established by Congress 1941 - Richard Wright & Paul Green's "Native Son," premieres in NYC 1979 - "Ballroom" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 116 performances 1981 - "Nightline with Ted Koppel" premieres on ABC 1988 - "Gospel at Colonus" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 61 perfs 1989 - Mary Martin in "Peter Pan," 1st seen on TV since 1973 1991 - "Les Miserables," opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago 1992 - "Jake's Women" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 245 performances 1994 - "Carousel" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 322 performances 1994 - "Song of Jacob Zulu" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 53 performances |
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