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On this day in 1948, the pianist Mitsuko Uchida is born in Atami, Japan.
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December 22On this day in 1639, the playwright Jean Racine is born in La Ferté-Milon, France.
On this day in 1883, the composer Edgard Varèse is born in Paris, France.
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December 23On this day in 1955, the poet Carol Ann Duffy is born in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She is the current Poet Laureate.
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December 24On this day in 1943, the politician Tarja Halonen is born in Helsinki, Finland. She was the first female President of Finland (2000–12).
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December 25On this day in 1984, the cricketer Alastair Cook is born in Gloucester, England, UK.
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January 1
On this day in 1992, the Arsenal footballer Jack Wilshere is born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England, UK.
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January 3On this day in 1969, the retired racing driver Michael Schumacher is born in Hürth, Germany.
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January 5On this day in 1931, the pianist Alfred Brendel is born in Loučná nad Desnou, Czech Republic.
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A moment ago, I watched The Hurt Locker on e123movies.com. This 2008 film won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win a Best Director Oscar – while Jeremy Renner was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar.
January 7
On this day in 1971, Renner is born in Modesto, California, USA.
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January 8On this day in 1942, the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is born in Oxford, England, UK.
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January 8On this day in 1896, the French poet Paul Verlaine dies in Paris, France.
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January 10On this day in 1903, the sculptor Barbara Hepworth is born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK.
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January 10On this day in 1945, the singer and songwriter Sir Roderick David Stewart, better known as Rod Stewart, is born in Highgate, N London, England, UK. Football played a major role in his early life, according to Wikipedia:
The family was mostly focused on football; Stewart’s father had played in a local amateur team and managed some teams as well, and one of Stewart’s earliest memories were the pictures of Scottish players such as George Young and Gordon Smith that his brothers had on the wall. Stewart was the most talented footballer in the family and was a strong supporter of Arsenal F.C. at the time. Combining natural athleticism with near-reckless aggression, he became captain of the school football team and played for Middlesex Schoolboys as centre-half.
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January 19On this day in 1955, the conductor Sir Simon Rattle is born in Liverpool, England, UK.
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January 19On this day in 1946, the country singer Dolly Parton is born in Locust Ridge, Tennessee, USA.
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January 19On this day in 1809, the writer Edgar Allan Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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January 22On this day in 1849, the playwright August Strindberg is born in Stockholm, Sweden.
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January 22On this day in 1788, the poet Lord Byron is born in England, UK.
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January 24On this day in 1920, the Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani dies in Paris, France.
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January 25On this day in 1759, the poet Robert Burns is born in Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK.
On this day in 1882, the writer Virginia Woolf is born in Kensington, W London, England, UK.
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January 26On this day in 1911, the opera Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauß is premiered at the Semperoper in Dresden, Germany.
On this day in 1945, the cellist Jacqueline du Pré is born in Oxford, England, UK.
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January 27On this day in 1945, the notorious concentration camp of Auschwitz, Poland, is liberated from the Nazis.
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January 27On this day in 1756, the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in Salzburg, Austria.
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January 28On this day in 1912, the abstract-expressionist painter Jackson Pollock is born in Cody, Wyoming, USA. He is not related to the South African father & son cricketers Graeme and Shaun Pollock.
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Solution: NONO.Italian composer in double denial (4)
January 29On this day in 1924, the composer Luigi Nono is born in Venice, Italy.
Also, on 29 January 1860 (New Style) the playwright Anton Chekhov is born in Taganrog, Russia.
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Solution: EDEN.British politician in double denial (4)
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January 31On this day in 1797, the composer Franz Schubert is born in Vienna, Austria – where he lives and works all through his very short life.
His life was very short indeed: he died at the age of just 31. Among all the famous composers I know of, only Giovanni Battista Pergolesi died younger – aged 26.
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February 2On this day in 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad. a major confrontation in WWⅡ, comes to an end.
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February 3On this day in 1809, the composer Felix Mendelssohn is born in Hamburg, Germany.
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February 7On this day in 1812, the novelist Charles Dickens is born in Portsmouth, England, UK.
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February 10On this day in 1996, the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue wins a game of chess against Garry Kasparov in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, becoming the first computer program to beat a world champion in a classical game under tournament regulations.
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February 12On this day in 1809, the future US President Abraham Lincoln is born near Hodgenville, Kentucky, USA.
Also on this very day in the same year, the naturalist Charles Darwin is born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, UK! Two famous people born on one and the same day – what are the chances!
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February 15On this day in 1748 (New Style) the philosopher Jeremy Bentham is born in London, England, UK.
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February 21On this day in 1924, the statesman Rubert Mugabe is born in Kutama, Zimbabwe.
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February 27On this day in 1902, the writer John Steinbeck is born in Salinas, California, USA.
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March 6On this day in 1957, Ghana gains independence from British colonial rule.
[This is yesterday’s date – I forgot to come and post yesterday.]
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March 13On this day in 1781, the planet Uranus is discovered by William Herschel.
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March 13On this day in 1996, tragedy strikes as a gunman opens fire and kills sixteen children and a teacher at a school in Dunblane, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK.
The British tennis star Andrew Murray was a schoolboy at that school on that very day, but happened to be in another part of the building when the horrible incident took place. He has been much affected by that upsetting childhood experience. It is something he has never felt like talking about to the media since he became a sports celebrity.
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March 14On this day in 1879, the theoretical physicist Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Germany.
The genius of the 20th century, Einstein is chiefly remembered for his special and general theories of relativity, but let us not forget that he has made other contributions to modern physics – particularly the photoelectric effect, which was what he received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for.
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March 20On this day in 1828, the playwright Henrik Ibsen is born in Skien, Norway.
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March 27On this day in 1971, the motor-racing driver David Coulthard is born in Twynholm, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, UK.
Coulthard has appeared as a rogue taxi driver in an advert for the car-insurance company Aviva. The advert is now banned.
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April 7On this day in 1770, the poet William Wordsworth is born in Cockermouth, Cumbria, England, UK.
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August 19On this day in 1946, Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the USA (1993–2001), is born in Hope, Arkansas.
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November 3
On this day in 1971, the current Arsenal manager Unai Emery is born in Hondarribia, Spain.
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Technically, Unai Emery is the head coach (rather than manager) of Arsenal.
November 3 is also the birthday of another Arsenal legend: Ian Wright.
November 3 is also the birthday of another Arsenal legend: Ian Wright.
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February 16On this day in 1918, the Act of Reinstating Independence of Lithuania is “signed by the Council of Lithuania … proclaiming the restoration of an independent State of Lithuania, governed by democratic principles, with Vilnius as its capital” – Wikipedia.
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April 29On this day in 1899, the jazz pianist Duke Ellington is born Edward Kennedy Ellington in Washington DC, USA.
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April 30On this day in 1946, the present King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, is born Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus in Solna, Stockholm County.
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April 30On this day in 1777, the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss is born Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß in Braunschweig, present-day Germany.
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May 2On this day in 1969, the West Indian former cricketer Brian Lara is born Brian Charles Lara in Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago. His cricketing records include (but are not limited to) the following:
- highest individual score in a Test innings (400 not out),
- highest individual score in a first-class innings (501 not out),
- highest number of runs scored in a single Test-match over (28).
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