Events
1901 - The second treaty Hey - Paunsfota between the USA and The Great Britain, according to which America had a right to build a channel on the Isthmus of Panama.
1928 – The release of the first sound
cartoon «Steamboat Willie» with a favourite hero Mickey Mouse, who has appeared
in two silent cartoons.
1961 – A start
of the American automatic station “Rangers-2” to test the device on the high near-earth
orbit.
1965 – A start
of the American Earth-satellite vehicle “Explorer-30” to inspect solar emission.
1977 - The first national conference of women, Houston, Texas, USA.
1981- the President
of the USA Reagan proposed to stop placing aerodynamic missiles if the USSR dismantles its intermediate-range ballistic
missiles targeted to Western Europe’s countries.
2003 - The
Supreme Court of Massachusetts found unlawful deprivation of right to get
married members of sexual minorities. It became the first state in the USA which legalised
a marriage between gays.
Birthdays
1899
Eugene Ormandy was a Hungarian-born
conductor and violinist
1901 George Horace Gallup was an American pioneer of survey sampling techniques and inventor of the Gallup poll, a successful statistical method of survey sampling for measuring public opinion
1923
Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr. was an American
naval aviator, test pilot, flag officer, NASA astronaut,
and businessman, who in 1961 became the second person, and the first American,
to travel into space
1968
Owen Cunningham Wilson is an American
actor and screenwriter. Born in Dallas, Texas to an Irish American family from Massachusetts, he was the middle child, and
has two brothers who are also actors, Andrew and Luke Wilson. He received his
distinctive twice-broken nose during childhood
Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer of Hungarian origin who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc., in 1968. In addition to clothing, Klein has also given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewelry.
ReplyDeleteI couldn't help but add that Calvin Klein brand is probably one of the most successful in the fashion industry. International Calvin Klein Jeans stores exist around the globe (a sign of success). 'Wanna wear my Calvin Kleins then the world will be all mine' these lines of the well known Green Day song come up to my mind when I hear 'Calvin Klein' ))
DeleteThe musical career of the outstanding Hungarian-born American conductor, Eugene Ormandy (real name, Jenö Blau), began at a surprisingly young age. He could identify symphonies at the age of 3 and could play the violin at the age of 4. When he was 5, he became the youngest pupil in the history of the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest. By the time he was 10, he was performing for the royal family of Austria-Hungary. Ormandy's early musical experiences were made possible by his father, who wanted his son to become a world-renowned violinist.
ReplyDeleteMickey Mouse is one of favourite cartoons of children of our generation)))
ReplyDeleteWhat about "The first national conference of women", I^ve found some information of the National Plan of Action was submitted to the president and Congress in March 1978, and a month later Carter established the National Advisory Committee for Women. The Senate granted a three-year extension for ratification of the ERA within a year of the Houston meeting; this unprecedented move was viewed as a major postconference achievement, despite the final failure of the amendment in 1982."
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
ReplyDeleteOrmandy served until 1936 as conductor of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, now the Minnesota Orchestra. During the depths of the Great Depression, RCA Victor contracted Ormandy and the Minneapolis Symphony for many recordings. A clause in the musicians' contract required them to earn their salaries by performing a certain number of hours each week (whether it be rehearsals, concerts, broadcasts, or recording). Since Victor did not need to pay the musicians, it could afford to send its best technicians and equipment to record in Minneapolis. Recordings were made between January 16, 1934, and January 16, 1935. There were several premiere recordings made in Minneapolis: John Alden Carpenter's Adventures in a Perambulator; Zoltán Kodály's Háry János Suite; Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht and a specially commissioned recording of Roy Harris's American Overture based on "When Johnny Comes Marching Home". Ormandy's recordings also included readings of Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 and Mahler's Symphony No. 2, which became extremely well known.
What a funny pic. you've published for the event '1977 - The first national conference of women, Houston, Texas, USA.':D
ReplyDeleteNevertheless, from November 18 to 21, 1977, over 20,000 people gathered in Houston, Texas to celebrate International Women's Year and identify goals for women for the next decade. This was the first and only national women's conference to be sponsored by the federal government;)
Justin Raimondo (born Dennis Raimondoon November 18, 1951) is an American author and the editorial director of the website Antiwar.com. He describes himself as a "conservative-paleo-libertarian."
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