Birthdays: Leopold Delibes, C. Brancusi, Anais Ninn, W.H.
Auden, Hubert de Givenchy, Era Bombeck, Sam Peckinpah, Nina
Simone, Robert Mugabe, Joe Oriolo, David Geffen, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Kelsey Grammar is 62, Jennifer Love Hewitt is 38, Alan
Rickman, Ellen Page is 30.
Pebble Flintstone is 53
Pebble Flintstone is 53
1719- A London weekly announced “Mr Handel, a Famous Master of Music, is gone beyond the sea, by order
of His Majesty, to collect a company of the choicest singers in Europe for the
Opera in the Haymarket.” The London Opera is born. On his recruiting trip
George Frederich Handel passed through his hometown of Halle.
A few hours after he was gone another musician came to town,
having walked 25 miles to meet this great German who had conquered England. He
was Johann Sebastian Bach. But he was too late.
The two giants of classical music would never meet.
1838- The first telegraph message sent by Samuel Morse
"What hath God wrought?" He strung electric cables up and down
several floors of his art studio using wood stretchers normally used for oil
paintings. Morse was an artist and never wanted to be an inventor, he just did
it to finance his painting.
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