Karl Richter - Karl Richter Karl Richter (October 15, 1926 - February 15, 1981) was a German conductor and organist. He was born in Plauen and studied first in Dresden and then Leipzig. He later moved to Munich where he taught at conducted the Munich Bach Choir and Munich Bach Orchestra. He conducted a wide range of music, but is best remembered today for his interpretations of Johann Sebastian Bach music. He avoided the fluctuations in tempo which was one characteristic of the prevailing Romantic manner of conducting Bach, but otherwise made no attempt to be historically authentic in his performances, using modern instruments right to the end of his career..
July 28 - Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, DC. 1943 - World War II: Operation Gomorrah - The British bomb Hamburg causing a firestorm that kills 42,000 German civilians. 1945 - A US Army bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building killing 14 injuring 26. 1965 - Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000. 1973 - Watkins Glen concert attended by 600,000 to see The Band, The Allman Brothers Band, and The Grateful Dead. 1976 - An earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude on the Richter scale flattens Tangshan, China, killing 242,769 and injuring.
Vienna State Opera - spared. Almost the entire décor and props for more than 120 operas with around 150,000 costumes were destroyed. The State Opera was temporarily housed at the Theater an der Wien and at the Volksoper. The rebuilt theater, seating more than 2200, reopened on November 5, 1955 with Beethoven's Fidelio under the baton of Karl Böhm. Gustav Mahler is one of the many illustrious conductors who have worked in Vienna. During his tenure, Mahler cultivated a new generation of singers, such as Anna Bahr-Mildenburg, Selma Kurz and Leo Slezak and recruited a stage designer who replaced the lavish historical stage décors for sparse stage scenery corresponding to modernistic, Jugendstil tastes. Mahler also introduced the practice of dimming the lighting in the theater during performances, which was initally not appreciate by the audience..
Hans Rott - 1, 1858. His mother died in 1860 and his father Karl Rott, a famous comic actor in Wien, was crippled in 1874 by a stage accident, and died two years later. So Hans Rott was left wanting to continue his studies at the Conservatory. Fortunately, Rott's skill, and his financial need, were recognized and he was excused from paying tuition. While studying, he was for a time roommate with Gustav Mahler and Rudolf Krzyzanowsky. Rott studied piano with L. Landskron, harmony with H. Graedener, counterpoint and composition with F. Krenn, and organ with Anton Bruckner starting in 1874 and graduated from Bruckner's organ class in 1877, with honors. Bruckner said that Rott played Bach very well, and even improvised wonderfully (that was a high compliment since it came from a great.
Discoveries of the chemical elements - Fluorine Nitrogen Priestley's work on atmospheric gases resulted in his preparation of oxygen. As he was a believer in phlogiston, he didn't realise that he had prepared a new element, and thought that he had managed to prepare air free from phlogiston ("de-phlogisticated air"). However, he was the first to isolate oxygen, even if he didn't realise what he had: Oxygen 1771 Joseph Priestley Chlorine 1774 Karl Wilhelm Scheele Manganese 1780? Hjelm Molybdenum Tellurium 1782 Mueller von Reichenstein Tungsten 1783 The recent discovery of the new planet Uranus by William Herschel had caused a stir, so the newly discovered metallic element was christened uranium in its honour. Uranium 1789 Martin Heinrich Klaproth Zirconium Strontium 1793 Martin Heinrich Klaproth Titanium 1797 Martin Heinrich Klaproth Yttrium Chromium Columbium Tantalum The next element was.
December 1 - held since World War II (on January 4, 1970, the New York Times ran a long article, "Statisticians Charge Draft Lottery Was Not Random"). 1971 - Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray, 10 kilometers northeast of Phnom Penh. 1973 - Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia. 1974 - A Boeing 727 carrying TWA Flight 514 crashes 25 miles northwest of Dulles International Airport during bad weather, killing all 92 people on-board. 1981 - A Yugoslavian DC-9 crashes into a mountain while approaching Ajaccio Airport in Corsica killing 178. 1987 - NASA announces the names of four companies who were awarded contracts to help build the International Space Station: Boeing Aerospace, General Electric's Astro-Space.
December 24 - 1968 - The crew of the USS Pueblo was released by North Korea after being held for 11 months on suspicion of spying. 1979 - The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan to support the country's Marxist government 2000 - The Texas 7 holds up a sports store in Irving, Texas. Police officer Aubrey Hawkins is shot in the incident. Births: 1166 - John, King of England (d. 1216) 1491 - Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit order) (d. 1556) 1754 - George Crabbe, English poet and naturalist (d. 1832) 1809 - Kit Carson, American frontiersman (d. 1868) 1812 - Karl Eduard Zachariae, German expert on civil law (d. 1894) 1818 - James Prescott Joule, British physicist (d. 1889) 1837 - Elisabeth of Austria, Austrian empress (Sisi) (d. 1898).
December 2003 - Investigation issues a memo instructing police to be alert of people carrying almanacs, stating that information in these reference works could be used to aid in the planning of terrorist attacks. [1] December 28, 2003 Serbian parliamentary election, 2003: Serbia holds a parliamentary election. The Serbian Radical Party wins 81 seats in the 250-seat parliament. [1] Guatemala election, 2003. Óscar Berger wins the second round of the presidential election with a 54% share of the vote. December 27, 2003 The estimate of the number of dead in the Bam earthquake increases to 40,000, according to the provincial governor. Iran has refused earthquake aid from Israel.[1] The U.S. Department of Agriculture announces that it believes the BSE infected cow detected in Washington State was imported from Canada in 2001. The location of.
1812 - 2 - Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, California February 7 - The strongest in a series of massive earthquakes near New Madrid, Missouri, est. >8 on Richter scale February 11 - Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry invents gerrymandering March 26 - An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela April 30 - Louisiana is admitted as the 18th U.S. state. May 11 - Prime Minster Spencer Perceval is assassinated by a bankrupt banker in the lobby of the British House of Commons . June 18 - The War of 1812 begins between the United States and the United Kingdom. July 22 - Peninsular War: Battle of Salamanca - British forces led by Lord Wellington defeat French troops near Salamanca in Spain. August 5 - War of 1812: Tecumseh's Indian force ambushes.
1999 - an Islamabad mosque killing 16 people injuring 25. January 6 - Bob Newhart receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. January 20 - The China News Service announces new government restrictions on Internet use aimed especially at Internet bars. January 21 - War on Drugs: In one of the one of the largest drug busts in American history, the United States Coast Guard intercepts a ship with over 9,500 pounds of cocaine aboard. The ship was headed to Houston, Texas. January 25 - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia killing at least 1,000 February 4 - Hugo Chávez Frías, Venezuelan military and politician, is elected President of Venezuela. February 4 - Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police.
1900 - Evans discovers the ruins of Knossos on Crete March 24 - New York City Mayor Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. May 17 - Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking May 18 - The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga. May 23 - Sergeant William Harvey Carney becomes the first African American to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor (awarded for heroism in the Battle of Fort Wagner during the American Civil War). May 24 - British annex Orange Free State as Orange River Colony May 31 - British take Johannesburg June 5 - British take Pretoria July 5 - Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act passes British Parliament July 9 - Queen Victoria gives royal assent to Commonwealth.
1929 - Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight (will end on August 29). August 19 - The radio comedy show Amos and Andy makes its debut starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll. October 11 - JC Penney opens Store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states. October 24 - Great Depression begins: Black Thursday and then Black Tuesday (October 29) - The New York Stock Exchange crashes, ushering in what will be a world-wide economic crisis. November 7 - In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public. November 18 - 1929 Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake centered on Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and.
1932 - woman elected to the United States Senate. January 15 - Pierre Laval forms a new government in France January 15 - About 6 million unemployed in Germany January 26 - British submarine M-2 sinks with all 50 hands January 28 - Japan occupies Shanghai January 29 - Minority government of Karl Mureschi in Austria ends the governmental crisis January 31 - Japanese warships arrive in Nanking February 2 - General convention of disarmament begins in Geneva February 2 - League of Nations again recommends negotiations between the Republic of China and Japan February 4 - Japan occupies Harbin, China February 11 - Pope Pius XI meets Benito Mussolini in the Vatican City February 18 - Japan declares Manzhouguo (Japanese name for Manchuria) formally independent from China February 27 - Adolf Hitler.
1998 in science - John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space. He became the first American to orbit Earth on February 20, 1962. The first of four 8.4 m reflecting telescopes opens in the Very Large Telescope program of the European Southern Observatory at Cerro Paranal in Chile. Biology July 17 - Biologists report in the journal Science how they sequenced the genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum. Computer science June 2 - The CIH Virus is discovered in Taiwan. The first working 2-qubit nuclear magnetic resonance computer is demonstrated at the University of California, Berkeley. Geology February 4 - An earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter Scale in northeast Afghanistan kills more than 5,000. March 14 - An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale.
April 28 - of the plane's cabin area rips off in mid-flight. Metal fatigue is later found to be the cause of the failure. 1994 - Former Central Intelligence Agency official Aldrich Ames and pleads guilty to giving US secretes to the Soviet Union and later Russia. 1996 - Whitewater: President Bill Clinton gives 4 1/2 hour videotaped testimony for the defense. 1997 - The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, signed in Paris in January 1993, goes into effect. Russia, Iraq and North Korea were notable nations who had not ratified the treaty. 2003 - Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store released, sells 1,000,000 songs in first week. Births 32 - Otho, Roman Emperor 1442 - King Edward IV of England (†1483) 1758 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (†1831) 1819.
Phelsuma - without stripes (in comparison to Phelsuma lineata lineata barbouri: after Mr. Barbour befotankensis: from Befotaka bimaculata: with two blotches, spots boehmei: after Mr. Wolfgang Böhme bombetokensis: from Bombetoka (bay) borbonica: from Bourbon (island, now called Réunion) breviceps: short headed cepediana: after Mr. La cepède checkei: after Mr. Athony. S. Checke chloroscelis: with (leaf)green thighs comoraegrandensis: from Grande Comoros (island) comorensis: from the Comoros (island group) dorsivittata: back wrapped in ribbons dubia:doubtful edwardnewtonii: after Mr. Edward Newton flavigularis: with a yellow throat grandis: big guentheri: after Mr. Albert Günther guimbeaui: after Mr. B. Guimbeau guttata: with teardrop formed spots hallmannii: after Mr. G. Hallmann inexpectata: unexpected kochi: after Mr. K.L. Koch ladiguensis: from la Digue (island) laticauda: with a broad, flattened tail leiogaster: smooth scales (belly) leiura: smooth tail scales lineata :.
Pianist - Moiseiwitsch John Nakamatsu John Ogdon Garrick Ohlsson Gerhard Oppitz Ignace Paderewski Vlado Perlemuter Murray Perahia Alfredo Perl Egon Petri Maria Joao Pires Mikhail Pletnev Maurizio Pollini Viktoria Postnikova André Prévin Eduaro del Pueyo Livia Rev Karl Richter Hans Richter-Haaser Sviatoslav Richter Bernard Roberts Charles Rosen Arthur Rubinstein Andreas Schiff Artur Schnabel Peter Serkin Rudolf Serkin Craig Sheppard Juan Maria Solare Solomon Jean-Yves Thibaudet Alexander Toradze David Tudor Rosalyn Tureck (also famous for her harpsichord playing) Fou Tsong Mitsuko Uchida Arcadi Volodos André Watts Earl Wild Elisso Wirssaladze Paul Wittgenstein Christian Zacharias Krystian Zimerman Well known popular music pianists : Tori Amos Oksana Kolesnikova Vanessa Carlton Russ Conway Liberace Billy Joel Elton John Barry Manilow See List of jazz pianists Well known blues pianists include: Ray Charles also jazz, and country music.
Nobel Prize in Physics - 1905 Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard "for his work on cathode rays" 1906 Sir Joseph John Thomson "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases" 1907 Albert Abraham Michelson "for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and metrological investigations carried out with their aid" 1908 Gabriel Lippmann "for his method of reproducing colours photographically based on the phenomenon of interference" 1909 Guglielmo Marconi and Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy" 1910s 1910 Johannes Diderik van der Waals "for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids" 1911 Wilhelm Wien "for his discoveries regarding the laws governing the radiation of heat" 1912 Nils Gustaf Dalén "for his invention of.
March 13 - Bien Phu: Viet Minh forces attack French. 1957 - The FBI arrests Jimmy Hoffa and charges him with bribery. 1964 - A young woman, Kitty Genovese was murdered in front of multiple witnesses who all failed to help her in an incident which shocks the world and prompts investigation into the Bystander effect. 1969 - Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. 1991 - The United States Justice Department annouces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska. 1992 - In eastern Turkey, an earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500. 1993 - The Great Blizzard of 1993 strikes the eastern U.S., bringing record snowfall and other severe weather all the.
March 14 - Poland, a plane crashes during an emergency landing near Warsaw killing a 14-man American boxing team and 73 others. 1984 - Gerry Adams is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt. 1989 - Gun control: President George H. W. Bush bans the importation of assault rifles into the United States. 1991 - After 16 years in prison for allegedly bombing a pub in an Irish Republican Army attack, the "Birmingham Six" are freed when a court determines that the police fabricated evidence. 1995 - Manned space mission: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle. 1996 - American President Bill Clinton commits $100 million to an anti-terrorism agreement with Israel to track down and root out terrorists. 1998 - An earthquake measuring 6.9.
