May 7
It's May 7th
On this day in 1824 – World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.
In 1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
In 1984 - The Human League releases "Hysteria"
In 1992 - The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission.
In 1994 – Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
Birthdays:
Bill Kreutzmann
Thelma Houston
Peter Carey
"My Life as a Fake"
Terry Allen
Angela Carter
"The Bloody Chamber" and Other Stories
Ruggero Deodato
Anne Baxter
as Lucy in "The Magnificent Ambersons"
as Kimberley Prescott in "Chase a Crooked Shadow"
as Cleo in "Fools' Parade"
Darren McGavin
as Colonel Mike Blaiswick in Mission Mars
as Navy Lieutenant in "Distant Drums"
"Trying hard to look like...
Gary Cooper
as Gideon Patch in "The Naked Edge"
...Super-duper."
George "Gabby" Hayes
as Detective Casey in "The Sphinx"
as Timothy Shine in "The Return of Casey Jones"
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Johannes Brahms
Robert Browning
"The Ring and the Book"
Browning believed spiritualism to be fraud, and proved one of Daniel Dunglas Home's most adamant critics. When Browning and his wife Elizabeth attended one of his séances in July 1855, a spirit face materialized, which Home claimed was Browning's son who had died in infancy: Browning seized the "materialization" and discovered it to be Home's bare foot. To make the deception worse, Browning had never lost a son in infancy. After the séance, Browning wrote an angry letter to The Times, in which he said: "the whole display of hands, spirit utterances etc., was a cheat and imposture." In 1902 Browning's son Pen wrote: "Home was detected in a vulgar fraud." Elizabeth, however, was convinced that the phenomena she witnessed were genuine, and her discussions about Home with her husband were a constant source of disagreement.
On this day in 1824 – World premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Vienna, Austria. The performance is conducted by Michael Umlauf under the composer's supervision.
In 1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
In 1984 - The Human League releases "Hysteria"
In 1992 - The Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on its first mission.
In 1994 – Edvard Munch's painting The Scream is recovered undamaged after being stolen from the National Gallery of Norway in February.
Birthdays:
Bill Kreutzmann
Thelma Houston
Peter Carey
"My Life as a Fake"
Terry Allen
Angela Carter
"The Bloody Chamber" and Other Stories
Ruggero Deodato
Anne Baxter
as Lucy in "The Magnificent Ambersons"
as Kimberley Prescott in "Chase a Crooked Shadow"
as Cleo in "Fools' Parade"
Darren McGavin
as Colonel Mike Blaiswick in Mission Mars
as Navy Lieutenant in "Distant Drums"
"Trying hard to look like...
Gary Cooper
as Gideon Patch in "The Naked Edge"
...Super-duper."
George "Gabby" Hayes
as Detective Casey in "The Sphinx"
as Timothy Shine in "The Return of Casey Jones"
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Johannes Brahms
Robert Browning
"The Ring and the Book"
Browning believed spiritualism to be fraud, and proved one of Daniel Dunglas Home's most adamant critics. When Browning and his wife Elizabeth attended one of his séances in July 1855, a spirit face materialized, which Home claimed was Browning's son who had died in infancy: Browning seized the "materialization" and discovered it to be Home's bare foot. To make the deception worse, Browning had never lost a son in infancy. After the séance, Browning wrote an angry letter to The Times, in which he said: "the whole display of hands, spirit utterances etc., was a cheat and imposture." In 1902 Browning's son Pen wrote: "Home was detected in a vulgar fraud." Elizabeth, however, was convinced that the phenomena she witnessed were genuine, and her discussions about Home with her husband were a constant source of disagreement.
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