Karl of Austria - historians as an honourable figure who tried as emperor-king to halt World War I. On 14 April 2003 the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints, in the presence of Pope John Paul II, promulgated Karl of Austria's "heroic virtues", a step on the road to sainthood in Roman Catholicism. Karl was the son of Archduke Otto Franz Joseph, younger brother of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand (whose assassination triggered off World War I), and of Princess Josepha of Saxony. In 1911 he was married to Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma, a daughter of the exiled Duke of Parma. Their oldest son and current head of the Habsburg family is Otto von Habsburg, who served as a German Member of the European Parliament. Names in other languages of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: German: Karl.
Veneration of the dead - in connection with, and festivals of the dead see Samhain Greek attitudes toward, practices in connection with, and festivals of the dead Hebrew attitudes toward, practices in connection with, and festivals of the dead Rabbinical Judaism's attitudes toward, practices in connection with, and festivals of the dead Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early Christianity's attitudes toward, practices in connection with, and festivals of the dead 2 Catholicism's attitudes toward, practices in connection with, and festivals of the dead 3 Chinese attitudes toward, practices in connection with, and festivals of the dead 4 Egyptian attitudes toward, practices in connection with, and festivals of the dead 5 Roman attitudes toward, practices in connection with, and festivals of the dead Early Christianity's attitudes toward, practices in connection with, and festivals of the dead Many.
Ken Russell - homosexuality, and The Devils, based on Aldous Huxley's book The Devils of Loudun, starring Vanessa Redgrave in a highly controversial role as a nun. By the 1990s, Russell's work had attracted so much media attention that he was widely regarded as unemployable, and he is now largely reliant on his own finances to continue making films. He and late ex-wife, Shirley (now deceased), converted to Roman Catholicism together..
Kenelm Digby - of gentry stock, but his family's adherence to Roman Catholicism coloured his career. His father, Sir Everard, had been executed in 1606 for his part in the Gunpowder Plot. He went to Gloucester Hall, Oxford in 1618, but left without taking a degree. He spent three years in Europe between 1620 and 1623, where Marie de Medici fell madly in love with him (as he later recounted). He married in 1625 Venetia Hanley, a racy beauty whose wooing he cryptically described in his memoirs. In 1628, Digby became a privateer, with some success: on January 18 he arrived off Gibraltar and captured several Spanish and Flemish vessels. From February 5 toMarch 27 he remained at anchor off Algiers on account of the sickness of his men, and extracted a promise from.
Know-Nothing movement - and entangled themselves in wars and political disputes was frequently pointed to as evidence that the Pope was simply waiting for the right time to regain his lost temporal power, and served to further cement this notion in the minds of many Americans. Culture Clash While significant in their own right, the concerns about the Pope largely exacerbated already-present anti-immigrant and anti-Catholic feelings held by many Americans. The newcomers differed culturally from most Americans, so their influx was seen as a threat to maintaining American culture. The immigrants brought with them their strong accents, Irish traditions and culture, and Roman Catholicism, and didn't seem likely to become "Americanized" anytime soon. A vocal minority of American Puritans also protested against the immigrants' alcohol consumption. While alcohol consumption already quite popular among the.
Veneration - Veneration (Latin veneratio, Greek dulia) In Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy, veneration, or veneration of saints, is the act of honoring someone, and through them honoring God who made them and in whose image they are made. This is often shown outwardly in the form of respectful bowing before a saint's icon or relics, usually while making the sign of the cross; kissing an icon or relic, or exchanging the "kiss of peace" with another person in some fashion; or any other culturally appropriate way of showing honor and respect. Animals, plants, and other parts of Nature may also be venerated simply by taking good care of them, thereby showing honor and respect for God who made them. Apologetics Critics charge that veneration amounts to the heresy idolatry, and that the related.
Ku Klux Klan - for Blacks, Jews, and other ethnic, racial, social or religious groups. They also oppose Catholicism, and 'left' groups such as the IWW, and the gay rights movement. In recent years a spin-off organization came into existence in the United Kingdom. However, the British Ku Klux Klan is a tiny movement with no real influence. Description The name Ku Klux Klan comes from kuklos, the Greek word for circle. A persistent myth has existed in the United States which alleges that the name comes from the sound of the hammer of a rifle being cocked. Members of the Klan are easily recognizable by their distinctive white robes and hoods, which represent the ghosts of the Confederate soldiers returned from the dead to search for revenge against their enemies. They also often give.
January 1 - Gustave Whitehead, inventor 1876 - Harriet Brooks, physicist († 1933) 1878 - Yau Yokose, writer? 1879 - E. M. Forster, novelist († 1970) 1887 - Wilhelm Canaris, admiral († 1945) 1890 - Anton Melik, Slovene geographer († 1966) 1894 - Satyendra Nath Bose, mathematician († 1974) 1895 - J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director († 1972) 1897 - Makoto Tomioka, writer? 1900 - Xavier Cugat, musician, bandleader († 1990) 1909 - Barry M. Goldwater, Arizona Senator († 1998) 1909 - John Glenn, astronaut, soldier, Senator from Ohio 1909 - Dana Andrews, actor († 1992) 1911 - Hank Greenberg, baseball player († 1986) 1912 - Kim Philby, spy († 1988) 1917 - Jule Gregory Charney, meteorologist († 1981) 1919 - J. D. Salinger, novelist 1922 - Rocky Graziano, boxer, born "Rocky Barbella" (†.
January 2 - - Ernst Barlach, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet (†1938) 1886 - Florence Lawrence, Hollywood's first "star" (†1938) 1896 - Dziga Vertov, filmmaker (†1954) 1904 - Sally Rand, fan dancer (†1979) 1905 - Michael Tippett, composer (†1998) 1912 - Renato Guttuso, painter (†1987) 1917 - Vera Zorina, dancer, actress 1920 - Isaac Asimov, science fiction author (†1992) 1936 - Roger Miller, country music singer (†1992) 1939 - Jim Bakker, televangelist 1939 - Konstanze Vernon, dancer 1949 - Christopher Durang, playwright 1954 - Dawn Silva, singer (The Brides of Funkenstein, P-Funk) 1963 - David Cone, baseball star 1965 - Diane Lane, actress 1966 - Tia Carrere, actress 1968 - Cuba Gooding Jr, actor 1969 - Christy Turlington, fashion model 1972 - Taye Diggs, actor Deaths.
January 26 - Paul Newman, actor 1926 - Ralph Brance, baseball star 1928 - Eartha Kitt, singer and actress 1928 - Roger Vadim, French film director and actor (†2000) 1929 - Jules Feiffer, cartoonist, writer 1932 - Clement Seymour "Sir Coxsone" Dodd, Jamaican record producer 1941 - Henry Jaglom, director 1941 - Scott Glenn, actor 1944 - Angela Davis, feminist and activist 1945 - Jacqueline du Pré, cello player (†1987) 1946 - Gene Siskel, film critic (†1999) 1953 - Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Prime Minister of Denmark 1955 - Eddie Van Halen, musician 1958 - Ellen DeGeneres, actress, comedienne 1961 - Wayne Gretzky, ice hockey player 1963 - Andrew Ridgeley, musician Deaths 1886 - David Rice Atchison, American politician 1962 - Lucky Luciano, mobster 1973 - Edward G. Robinson, actor 1979 -.
January 28 - Artur Rubinstein, musician, conductor (+ 1982) 1891 - Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada 1892 - Ernst Lubitsch, film director (+ 1947) 1900 - Heinrich Kesten, author (+ 1996) 1912 - Jackson Pollock, painter, initiator of Dripping painting (+ 1956) 1927 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, director 1929 - Claes Oldenbourg, artist 1929 - Acker Bilk, musician 1933 - Susan Sontag, novelist, philosopher, essayist, director, playwright 1936 - Alan Alda, actor 1945 - Marthe Keller, actress 1968 - Sarah McLachlan, singer 1977 - Joey Fatone, musician 1980 - Nick Carter, musician 1981 - Elijah Wood, actor Deaths 814 - Charlemagne 1547 - King Henry VIII of England 1596 - Sir Francis Drake, explorer, soldier 1939 - William Butler Yeats, writer 1949 - Jean-Pierre Wimille, race car driver 1965 - Maxime Weygand, soldier.
January 31 - (+ 1959) 1923 - Norman Mailer, writer and journalist 1925 - Benjamin Hooks, head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 1929 - Jean Simmons, actress 1931 - Ernie Banks, Baseball Hall of Famer 1937 - Suzanne Pleshette, actress 1937 - Philip Glass, composer 1938 - Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands 1941 - Richard Gephardt, American politician 1942 - Derek Jarman, director, writer (+ 1994) 1946 - Terry Kath, musician (+ 1978) 1947 - Nolan Ryan, baseball player 1949 - Ken Wilber, philosopher 1956 - Johnny Rotten, musician (The "Sex Pistols") 1970 - Minnie Driver, actress 1974 - Ian Huntley, responsible for the Soham murders 1981 - Justin Timberlake, musician Deaths 1606 - Guy Fawkes, executed for his part in the Gunpowder Plot 1907 - Timothy Eaton, department.
January 25 - 1691) 1759 - Robert Burns, poet (†1796) 1858 - Kokichi Mikimoto, pearl farm pioneer (†1954) 1860 - Charles Curtis, Vice President of the United States (†1936) 1874 - William Somerset Maugham, (†1965) 1878 - Ernst Alexanderson, television pioneer 1882 - Virginia Woolf, writer (†1941) 1886 - Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor (†1954) 1900 - Yojiro Ishizaka, writer (†1986) 1917 - Ilya Prigogine, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1977 (†2003) 1919 - Edwin Newman, journalist, writer 1930 - Dean Jones, actor 1933 - Corazon Aquino, President of the Philippines 1938 - Vladimir Vysotsky, Russian poet, singer, and actor (†1980) 1938 - Etta James, singer 1943 - Tobe Hooper, director 1965 - Dominik Hasek, ice hockey player 1981 - Alicia Keys, singer, musician Deaths.
January 27 - actor (†1973) 1903 - John Carew Eccles, psychologist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963, (†1997) 1908 - Oran "Hot Lips" Page, jazz trumpet (†1954) 1918 - Skitch Henderson, musician, band leader 1919 - Ross Bagdasarian, musician, actor (†1972) 1920 - Frankie Albert, American football star (†2002) 1921 - Donna Reed, actress (†1986) 1924 - Sabu, actor (†1963) 1926 - Fritz Spiegl, journalist (†2003) 1931 - Mordecai Richler, author (†2001) 1936 - Troy Donahue, actor (†2001) 1945 - Nick Mason, musician of Pink Floyd 1948 - Mikhail Baryshnikov, dancer 1956 - Mimi Rogers, actress 1957 - Janick Gers, musician (Iron Maiden) 1974 - Bridget Fonda, actress 1965 - Alan Cumming, actor Deaths 98 - Nerva, Roman Emperor 1880 -.
January 17 - French singer (†1987) 1933 - Shari Lewis, puppeteer (†1998) 1937 - Troy Donahue, actor 1939 - Maury Povich, talk show host 1942 - Muhammad Ali, boxer 1942 - Ulf Hoelscher, violinist 1948 - Davíð Oddsson, Prime Minister of Iceland 1949 - Andy Kaufman, comedian (†1984) 1955 - Steve Earle, musician 1956 - Paul Young, English musician 1962 - Jim Carrey, actor, comedian 1966 - Shabba Ranks, singer 1971 - Kid Rock, singer 1974 - Ladan and Laleh Bijani, Iranian conjoined twin sisters (†2003) Deaths 1751 - Tomaso Albinoni, aged 69, Italian composer 1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician 1861 - Lola Montez, adventurer 1886 - Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer 1893 - Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States 1961 - Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister.
January 22 - of Moscow †1505) 1561 - Sir Francis Bacon, philosopher (†1626) 1729 - Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, author and philosopher (†1781) 1775 - Andre Marie Ampere, physicist (†1836) 1788 - George Gordon, Lord Byron, poet (†1824) 1849 - August Strindberg, poet and writer (†1912) 1875 - D. W. Griffith, director (†1948) 1893 - Conrad Veidt, actor (†1943) 1904 - George Balanchine, choreographer (†1983) (N.S.) 1906 - Robert E. Howard, author (†1936) 1909 - U Thant, 3rd United Nations Secretary General (†1974) 1909 - Ann Sothern, actress (†2001) 1911 - Bruno Kreisky, Prime Minister of Austria (†1990) 1915 - Heinrich Albertz, theologian and politician (†1993) 1931 - Sam Cooke, singer (†1964) 1932 - Piper Laurie, actress 1934 - Bill.
January 24 - musician 1943 - Sharon Tate, actress (†1969) 1944 - Neil Diamond, singer 1946 - Michael Ontkean, actor 1947 - Warren Zevon, American musician-songwriter (†2003) 1949 - John Belushi, actor (†1982) 1958 - Jools Holland, musician 1960 - Nastassja Kinski, actress 1968 - Mary Lou Retton, gymnast 1979 - Tatyana Ali, actress Deaths 1366 - King Alfonso IV of Aragon 1920 - Amedeo Modigliani, painter, sculptor 1932 - Sir Alfred Yarrow, shipbuilder 1939 - Maximilian Bircher-Benner, Swiss physician and Muesli inventor 1960 - Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor 1965 - Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1973 - J. Carrol Naish, actor 1975 - Larry Fine, actor (The Three Stooges) 1986 - L. Ron Hubbard, science fiction writer, founder of Scientology 1986 - Gordon MacRae, actor, singer.
January 21 - (†1926) 1867 - Ludwig Thoma, narrator, dramatist and lyricist (†1921) 1867 - Maxime Weygand, French General (†1965) 1884 - Roger Baldwin, ACLU president, social activist (†1981) 1885 - Umberto Nobile, politician and airship designer (†1978) 1895 - Cristobal Balenciaga, couturier (†1972) 1922 - Paul Scofield, actor 1924 - Telly Savalas, actor (†1994) 1925 - Benny Hill, comedian, actor (†1992) 1926 - Steve Reeves, actor (†2000) 1939 - Wolfman Jack, disk jockey, actor (†1995) 1941 - Richie Havens, musician 1941 - Placido Domingo, opera singer 1950 - Billy Ocean, musician 1953 - Paul Allen, entrepreneur 1956 - Geena Davis, actress 1963 - Hakeem Olajuwon, basketball player Deaths 1519 - Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer (* ca.1475) 1609 - Joseph Justus Scaliger,.
January 4 - 1969) 1914 - Jane Wyman, actress 1930 - Don Shula, American football coach 1932 - Carlos Saura, director 1935 - Floyd Patterson, boxing champion 1937 - Dyan Cannon, actress 1943 - Doris Kearns Goodwin, writer 1960 - Michael Stipe, singer for R.E.M Deaths 1248 - King Sancho II of Portugal 1821 - Elizabeth Ann Seton, American saint 1831 - James Monroe, President of the United States 1877 - Cornelius Vanderbilt, entrepreneur 1941 - Henri Bergson, writer 1960 - Albert Camus, philosopher and writer (car crash) 1961 - Erwin Schrödinger, physicist 1965 - T. S. Eliot, poet 1967 - Donald Campbell, water speed record setter 1969 - Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins, actresses 1998 - Mae Questel, actress 1999 - Iron Eyes Cody, actor 2000 - Tom Fears, American football star.
January 5 - Thomas, singer (P-Funk) 1942 - Maurizio Pollini, pianist 1942 - Charlie Rose, talk show host 1946 - Diane Keaton, actress 1953 - George Tenet, Director of the CIA 1961 - Suzy Amis, actress 1969 - Marilyn Manson, singer Deaths 1589 - Catherine de Medici, Queen of France 1740 - Antonio Lotti, composer 1891 - Emma Abbott, american opera singer 1922 - Ernest Shackleton, explorer 1929 - Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia 1933 - Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States 1941 - Amy Johnson, aviator 1943 - George Washington Carver, educator, activist, botanist 1956 - Mistinguett (Jeanne Bourgeois), French singer 1963 - Rogers Hornsby, Baseball Hall of Famer 1970 - Max Born, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1954 1970 - Roberto Gerhard, composer 1970 -.
