12th September
The Feast Day of Saint Elvis - or, to give him his Celtic spelling, Ailbe - a late 5th -early 6th Century bishop, regarded as the founder of Emly in County Tipperary. A colourful early life, according to the legends - nursed by a wolf as a baby after his mother's servants left him abandoned on a rock (they were being kind - they'd been ordered to kill him), he was discovered by visiting Britons who brought him up. When the time came for them to return to "Wales", they had thought to leave Ailbe in Ireland, but many misfortunes prevented their departure until they decided to take him with them. Years later, when he was a bishop, an elderly wolf being pursued by hunters placed her head on his chest [the legends don't explain how she managed this] and the Bishop, recognising his "foster-mother" took her into his protection and fed her cubs in his abbey. Also recognising his [other] foster-parents, he is said to have baptized St David.
It's also Conception Day in Russia - commemorating the date when Lenin was conceived, and inaugurated to encourage Russian couples to increase the birth rate: those who give birth on 12th June are rewarded by the government, with cash payments for anyone having more than one child. An off-shoot, obviously, from the Soviet Era? Well, no - it was introduced by Putin in 2006.
Totally inconnected - it's also National Day of Encouragement in some of the United States. Don't get your hopes up.
Also on This Date: Athenian forces and their allies defeat the Persian forces of Darius I at the Battle of Marathon (490BCE - possibly); Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the river now named after him (1609); the forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat those of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vienna, ending the siege of the city and marking the decisive turning point in the Ottoman-Hapsburg Wars (1683); Casanova is imprisoned without trial in solitary confinement [apart from "millions of fleas"] (1755 - he is sentenced to 5 years' imprisonment, but escapes the following year); Switzerland becomes a Federal state after the adoption of a federal constitution (1848); US steamship SS Central America runs into a hurricane and is sunk, with the deaths of 425 passengers, and the loss of its cargo of 15 toms of gold (1857); Cleopatra's Needle is erected on the Victoria Embankment in London (1878 - concealed in one of the pedestals is a Time Capsule containing a box of hairpins, a box of cigars, several tobacco pipes, a set of imperial weights, a baby's bottle, some children's toys, a shilling razor, a hydraulic jack and some samples of the cable used in the erection, a 3 ft bronze model of the monument, a complete set of contemporary British coins, a rupee, a portrait of Queen Victoria, a written history of the transport of the monument, plans on vellum, a translation of the inscriptions, copies of the Bible in several languages, a copy of John 3:16 in 215 languages,[7] a copy of Whitaker's Almanack, a Bradshaw Railway Guide, a map of London and copies of 10 daily newspapers, and a set of 12 photographs of the best-looking English women of the day); Arbroath FC defeats Bon Accord Aberdeen FC 36 - nil; the largest marginal defeat of any match in which both sides are playing to win (1885); Fort Salisbury is founded by Cecil Rhodes (1890 - subsequently Harawe, the capital city of Zimbabwe. Exactly 33 years later to the day, Britain annexes the territory); Mahler conducts the premiere of his 8th Symphony [with forces of just under 1030 performers] in the recently-opened Neue Musik-Festhalle in Munich (1910 - the Hall, with a seating capacity of 3,200 is sold out, and the performance takes 85 minutes: it is the last premiere of one of his own works that the composer conducts - the second performance is the following evening); an intelligence officer in the German Army is instructed to report on a meeting of the German Workers' Party - the officer is Adolf Hitler, and he makes such an impressive speech at the meeting that he is invited to join the party (1919); nuclear physicist Leo Szilard reads a newspaper article by Ernest Rutherford which dismisses the possibility of using nuclear fission as a source of energy ["very poor and inefficient ... moonshine"] - Szilard is so disturbed by Rutherford's rejection that he goes for a walk, and, whilst he waits fro a pedestrian crossing light to change, he conceives the idea of the Nuclear Chain Reaction (1933); Jean Vigo's film L'Atalante goes on general release (1934); Michel Ravidat's dog, Robot, falls down a hole as they take a walk in the village of Montignac - returning with friends to rescue the animal, he discovers the caves of Lascaux Cave and their Paleolithic wall paintings (1940); SS Commandos rescue Mussolini from house arrest (1943); the Soviets launch Luna 2 from Baikonur Cosmodrome (1959); President Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at a football stadium in Houston, Texas (1962); the first episode of The Monkees is broadcast on NBC in the United Staes (1966); at Dawson's Field, a remote desert airstrip in Jordan, Palestinian terrorists blow up three empty passenger aircraft that they had hijacked 5 days earlier (1970); Haile Selassie is deposed as Emperor of Ethiopia in a military coup (1974); anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies ina South African hospital after having been beaten to death by police officers whilst in custody (1977); a drunken American truck driver steals a civilian plane and crashes it into the grounds of the White House (1994 - he is the only casualty); the University of Leicester announces that skeletal remains uncovered the week earlier in a public Car Park in Leicester were "a possible candidate" for being those of Richard III (2012); ... and, this time last year, scientists working in Blombos Cave in South Africa discover the oldest known "drawing", dating from 73,000 years ago (it's a series of six nearly parallel lines crossed by three curved ones, so it might be what we'd describe as "writing" as much as "drawing").
Birthdays Today include: William Dugdale (1605); Anselm Feuerbach (1829); Herbert Asquith (1852); Maurice Chevalier (1888); Alfred A Knopf (1892); Ernst Pepping (1901); Louis MacNeice (1907); Jesse Owens (1913); Desmond Llewelyn (1914); Jackson Mac Low (1922); Larry Austin (1930); Ian Holm (1931); Tatiana Troyanos (1938); Barry White (1944); John Mauceri (1945); Hans Zimmer (1957); Tarana Burke (1973) ( ... and, on the same day in 1950, Gustav Brummer and Bruce Mahler who between them have a composer and [almost] The Incredible Hulk).
Final Days for: Blanche of Lancaster (1368 - Bbm's Xtimes great-grandmother); Jan van der Heyden (1710); Jean-Philippe Rameau (1764); Franz Xaver Richter (1789); Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1819); Leonid Andreyev (1919); Robert Lowell (1977); Anthony Perkins (1992); Raymond Burr (1994); Jeremy Brett (1995); Stanley Turrentine (2000); Johnny Cash (2003); John Buller (2004).
... and the R3 Schedules for the Morning of Monday, 12th September, 1989 were:
Morning Concert: Boccherini Sinfonia in C, Op21 #3; Delius Brigg Fair; Schubert Rosamunde Ovt; Franck Symphonic Variations; Berwald Symph #4 in Eb.
Composers of the Week: Les Six (Durey 3 Poemes de Petrone; Tailleferre Premieres prouesses, Pastorale; Honegger Toccata & Variations; Milhaud Printemps, Pastorale; Auric 3 Interludes; Poulenc Rapsodie Negre)
Iberian Connections: Falla Allegro de concierto, Serenata; Lacerda Songs; Castelnuovo-Tedesco Guitar Concerto; Granados Goyescas, Escenas romanticas; Rodrigo Sonada de adios, Danza de la amapola; Villa Lobos Chromo Ovalle Azulao.
BBCSSO conducted by Louis Fremaux: Offenbach Orpheus in the Underworld Ovt; Saint-Saens Danse Macabre; Roussel Le Festin de l'araignée.
The Feast Day of Saint Elvis - or, to give him his Celtic spelling, Ailbe - a late 5th -early 6th Century bishop, regarded as the founder of Emly in County Tipperary. A colourful early life, according to the legends - nursed by a wolf as a baby after his mother's servants left him abandoned on a rock (they were being kind - they'd been ordered to kill him), he was discovered by visiting Britons who brought him up. When the time came for them to return to "Wales", they had thought to leave Ailbe in Ireland, but many misfortunes prevented their departure until they decided to take him with them. Years later, when he was a bishop, an elderly wolf being pursued by hunters placed her head on his chest [the legends don't explain how she managed this] and the Bishop, recognising his "foster-mother" took her into his protection and fed her cubs in his abbey. Also recognising his [other] foster-parents, he is said to have baptized St David.
It's also Conception Day in Russia - commemorating the date when Lenin was conceived, and inaugurated to encourage Russian couples to increase the birth rate: those who give birth on 12th June are rewarded by the government, with cash payments for anyone having more than one child. An off-shoot, obviously, from the Soviet Era? Well, no - it was introduced by Putin in 2006.
Totally inconnected - it's also National Day of Encouragement in some of the United States. Don't get your hopes up.
Also on This Date: Athenian forces and their allies defeat the Persian forces of Darius I at the Battle of Marathon (490BCE - possibly); Henry Hudson begins his exploration of the river now named after him (1609); the forces of the Holy Roman Empire defeat those of the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vienna, ending the siege of the city and marking the decisive turning point in the Ottoman-Hapsburg Wars (1683); Casanova is imprisoned without trial in solitary confinement [apart from "millions of fleas"] (1755 - he is sentenced to 5 years' imprisonment, but escapes the following year); Switzerland becomes a Federal state after the adoption of a federal constitution (1848); US steamship SS Central America runs into a hurricane and is sunk, with the deaths of 425 passengers, and the loss of its cargo of 15 toms of gold (1857); Cleopatra's Needle is erected on the Victoria Embankment in London (1878 - concealed in one of the pedestals is a Time Capsule containing a box of hairpins, a box of cigars, several tobacco pipes, a set of imperial weights, a baby's bottle, some children's toys, a shilling razor, a hydraulic jack and some samples of the cable used in the erection, a 3 ft bronze model of the monument, a complete set of contemporary British coins, a rupee, a portrait of Queen Victoria, a written history of the transport of the monument, plans on vellum, a translation of the inscriptions, copies of the Bible in several languages, a copy of John 3:16 in 215 languages,[7] a copy of Whitaker's Almanack, a Bradshaw Railway Guide, a map of London and copies of 10 daily newspapers, and a set of 12 photographs of the best-looking English women of the day); Arbroath FC defeats Bon Accord Aberdeen FC 36 - nil; the largest marginal defeat of any match in which both sides are playing to win (1885); Fort Salisbury is founded by Cecil Rhodes (1890 - subsequently Harawe, the capital city of Zimbabwe. Exactly 33 years later to the day, Britain annexes the territory); Mahler conducts the premiere of his 8th Symphony [with forces of just under 1030 performers] in the recently-opened Neue Musik-Festhalle in Munich (1910 - the Hall, with a seating capacity of 3,200 is sold out, and the performance takes 85 minutes: it is the last premiere of one of his own works that the composer conducts - the second performance is the following evening); an intelligence officer in the German Army is instructed to report on a meeting of the German Workers' Party - the officer is Adolf Hitler, and he makes such an impressive speech at the meeting that he is invited to join the party (1919); nuclear physicist Leo Szilard reads a newspaper article by Ernest Rutherford which dismisses the possibility of using nuclear fission as a source of energy ["very poor and inefficient ... moonshine"] - Szilard is so disturbed by Rutherford's rejection that he goes for a walk, and, whilst he waits fro a pedestrian crossing light to change, he conceives the idea of the Nuclear Chain Reaction (1933); Jean Vigo's film L'Atalante goes on general release (1934); Michel Ravidat's dog, Robot, falls down a hole as they take a walk in the village of Montignac - returning with friends to rescue the animal, he discovers the caves of Lascaux Cave and their Paleolithic wall paintings (1940); SS Commandos rescue Mussolini from house arrest (1943); the Soviets launch Luna 2 from Baikonur Cosmodrome (1959); President Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at a football stadium in Houston, Texas (1962); the first episode of The Monkees is broadcast on NBC in the United Staes (1966); at Dawson's Field, a remote desert airstrip in Jordan, Palestinian terrorists blow up three empty passenger aircraft that they had hijacked 5 days earlier (1970); Haile Selassie is deposed as Emperor of Ethiopia in a military coup (1974); anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko dies ina South African hospital after having been beaten to death by police officers whilst in custody (1977); a drunken American truck driver steals a civilian plane and crashes it into the grounds of the White House (1994 - he is the only casualty); the University of Leicester announces that skeletal remains uncovered the week earlier in a public Car Park in Leicester were "a possible candidate" for being those of Richard III (2012); ... and, this time last year, scientists working in Blombos Cave in South Africa discover the oldest known "drawing", dating from 73,000 years ago (it's a series of six nearly parallel lines crossed by three curved ones, so it might be what we'd describe as "writing" as much as "drawing").
Birthdays Today include: William Dugdale (1605); Anselm Feuerbach (1829); Herbert Asquith (1852); Maurice Chevalier (1888); Alfred A Knopf (1892); Ernst Pepping (1901); Louis MacNeice (1907); Jesse Owens (1913); Desmond Llewelyn (1914); Jackson Mac Low (1922); Larry Austin (1930); Ian Holm (1931); Tatiana Troyanos (1938); Barry White (1944); John Mauceri (1945); Hans Zimmer (1957); Tarana Burke (1973) ( ... and, on the same day in 1950, Gustav Brummer and Bruce Mahler who between them have a composer and [almost] The Incredible Hulk).
Final Days for: Blanche of Lancaster (1368 - Bbm's Xtimes great-grandmother); Jan van der Heyden (1710); Jean-Philippe Rameau (1764); Franz Xaver Richter (1789); Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1819); Leonid Andreyev (1919); Robert Lowell (1977); Anthony Perkins (1992); Raymond Burr (1994); Jeremy Brett (1995); Stanley Turrentine (2000); Johnny Cash (2003); John Buller (2004).
... and the R3 Schedules for the Morning of Monday, 12th September, 1989 were:
Morning Concert: Boccherini Sinfonia in C, Op21 #3; Delius Brigg Fair; Schubert Rosamunde Ovt; Franck Symphonic Variations; Berwald Symph #4 in Eb.
Composers of the Week: Les Six (Durey 3 Poemes de Petrone; Tailleferre Premieres prouesses, Pastorale; Honegger Toccata & Variations; Milhaud Printemps, Pastorale; Auric 3 Interludes; Poulenc Rapsodie Negre)
Iberian Connections: Falla Allegro de concierto, Serenata; Lacerda Songs; Castelnuovo-Tedesco Guitar Concerto; Granados Goyescas, Escenas romanticas; Rodrigo Sonada de adios, Danza de la amapola; Villa Lobos Chromo Ovalle Azulao.
BBCSSO conducted by Louis Fremaux: Offenbach Orpheus in the Underworld Ovt; Saint-Saens Danse Macabre; Roussel Le Festin de l'araignée.
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] are used on Carnagie Mellon University Bulletin Board (1982); a US Senate hearing is held to address "Porn Rock", with "the subject of the content of certain sound recordings and suggestions that recording packages be labeled to provide a warning to prospective purchasers of sexually explicit or other potentially offensive content" (1985 - with opposing testimony from Frank Zappa ["the proposal is an ill-conceived piece of nonsense which fails to deliver any real benefits to children, infringes the civil liberties of people who are not children, and promises to keep the courts busy for years dealing with the interpretation and enforcement problems inherent in the proposal's design."] and John Denver, whose Rocky Mountain High had been misinterpreted by the supporters of the censorship) - on the same day , a violent earthquake in Mexico City causes the deaths of at least 5,000 people, including Placido Domingo's Aunt, Uncle, Cousin, and his 2-year-old nephew (exactly 32 years to the day later, a smaller earthquake in the Mexican city of Puebla causes the deaths of 370 people); German tourists Helmut & Erika Simons discover the frozen mummified remains of a man whom they believe to be a recently diceased mountaineer as they holiday in the Italian Alps - it turns out to be over 5,000 years old, and is named by archaeolgists Ötzi the Iceman (1991); the Thai Royal Army stages a coup against the elected government (2006); the BP Oil Spill at the Macondo Oil Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico is finally sealed - after 5 months spillage of 175,000,000 gallons of oil (2010); an al-Qaeda-influenced terrorist is arrested in New Jersey after a shoot-out with police, following a 3-day bombing campaign (2016).
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