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100 years anniversary | ||||
14 Apr 1924 | Shorty Rogers [Milton M Rajonsky]: Composer | |||
14 Apr 1924 | Louis H Sullivan: Architect (Wainwright building St. Louis), dies at 67 | |||
14 Apr 1924 | Roland Napoleon Bonaparte: Fr officer / explorer (Surinam), dies at 65 | |||
14 Apr 1924 | Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, English philosopher an academic | |||
14 Apr 1924 | Philip Stone, English actor (d. 2003) | |||
14 Apr 1924 | Joseph Ruskin, American actor and producer (d. 2013) | |||
14 Apr 1924 | Shorty Rogers, American trumpet player and composer (d. 1994) | |||
14 Apr 1924 | Shorty Rogers [Milton M Rajonsky] composer | |||
14 Apr 1924 | Louis H Sullivan architect (Wainwright building St Louis), dies at 67 | |||
14 Apr 1924 | Roland Napoleon Bonaparte French officer/explorer (Surinam), dies at 65 | |||
14 Apr 1924 |
death Louis Sullivan Died 14 Apr 1924 at age 67 (born 3 Sep 1856). Louis (Henry) Sullivan was an American architect who is identified with the aesthetics and innovation of early skyscraper design. Called the “Father of Modernism,” he was greatly influenced Frank Lloyd Wright and others. He was one of the first to design skyscrapers, such as the Wainwright building in St Louis (1890-91) and the Carson store in Chicago (1899-1904). His experimental, functional skeleton constructions of skyscrapers and office blocks included the Gage building and Stock Exchange, Chicago. His more than 100 works in collaboration (1879-95) with Dankmar Adler include the Auditorium Building, Chicago (1866-89) and the Guaranty Building, Buffalo. |
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75 years anniversary | ||||
14 Apr 1949 | John Shea: North Conway, New Hampshire -- Actor (Honeymoon, New Life, Lois & Clark) | |||
14 Apr 1949 | Michael Shea: Glendale, New York -- Actor (Lucas- New Dick Van Dyke Show) | |||
14 Apr 1949 | Joseph A Cushman: US paleontologist, dies at 68 | |||
14 Apr 1949 | John Shea, American actor and director | |||
14 Apr 1949 | Chris Langham, English actor and screenwriter | |||
14 Apr 1949 | DeAnne Julius, American-English economist and academic | |||
14 Apr 1949 | Dave Gibbons, English author and illustrator | |||
14 Apr 1949 | birth Dennis Bryon, Amen Corner, (1969 UK No.1 single 'If Paradise Is Half As Nice', plus five other UK Top 40 hits). Worked with The Bee Gees during the 1970's & 1980's. | |||
14 Apr 1949 | birth June Millington, Fanny, (all Girl group, 1975 US No.29 single 'Butter Boy'). | |||
14 Apr 1949 | birth Sonja Kristina, vocals, Curved Air, (1971 UK No.4 single 'Back Street Luv'). | |||
14 Apr 1949 | Joseph A Cushman US paleontologist, dies at 68 | |||
14 Apr 1949 | International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg's last judgment | |||
50 years anniversary | ||||
14 Apr 1974 | Mike Allen Lambert: Honolulu, Hawaii -- Volleyball opposite hitter (1996 Olympics) | |||
14 Apr 1974 | 38th Golf Masters Championship: Gary Player wins, shooting a 278 | |||
14 Apr 1974 | Da Brat, American rapper and actress | |||
14 Apr 1974 | Mike Allen Lambert Honolulu HI, volleyball opposite hitter (Olympics-96) | |||
14 Apr 1974 | 38th Golf Masters Championship Gary Player wins, shooting a 278 | |||
25 years anniversary | ||||
14 Apr 1999 | A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history. | |||
14 Apr 1999 | NATO mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees. Yugoslav officials say 75 people were killed. | |||
14 Apr 1999 | Anthony Newley, English-American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1931) | |||
14 Apr 1999 | Ellen Corby, American actress and screenwriter (b. 1911) | |||
14 Apr 1999 | UK singer, songwriter and actor Anthony Newley died of cancer. Scored 12 UK Top 40 singles from 1959-1962 including the No.1 single 'Why.' He won the 1963 Grammy Award for Song of the Year for "What Kind of Fool Am I?", he was married to the actress Joan Collins from 1963 to 1971. | |||
20 years anniversary | ||||
14 Apr 2004 | Micheline Charest, English-Canadian television producer, co-founded the Cookie Jar Group (b. 1953) | |||
15 years anniversary | ||||
14 Apr 2009 | Maurice Druon, French author (b. 1918) | |||
14 Apr 2009 | A planned auction of nearly 1,400 items from the former home of Michael Jackson was cancelled. A public preview of the collection had already begun in Los Angeles and the exhibition of Jackson's possessions would stay open until the end of next week. A last-minute settlement meant Jackson's belongings would now be returned to him. In response, he had dropped a lawsuit against Juliens Auctions. | |||
14 Apr 2009 | Former Beatle George Harrison was honoured with a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles. Sir Paul McCartney attended the unveiling outside the landmark Capitol Records building, joining Harrison's widow Olivia and son Dhani. Eric Idle, Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks and musician Tom Petty also attended the ceremony. | |||
10 years anniversary | ||||
14 Apr 2014 | Two hundred seventy-six schoolgirls are abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok, Northeastern Nigeria. | |||
14 Apr 2014 | Twin bomb blasts in Abuja, Nigeria, kill at least 75 people and injures 141 others. | |||
14 Apr 2014 | Mick Staton, American soldier and politician (b. 1940) | |||
14 Apr 2014 | Armando Peraza, Cuban-American drummer (Santana) (b. 1924) | |||
14 Apr 2014 | Wally Olins, English businessman and academic (b. 1930) | |||
14 Apr 2014 | Crad Kilodney, American-Canadian author (b. 1948) | |||
14 Apr 2014 | Karl-Heinz Euling, German SS officer (b. 1919) | |||
14 Apr 2014 | Nina Cassian, Romanian poet and critic (b. 1924) |