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in honor of that anon who said jews have done nothing for the world, here’s a non exhaustive list of things we’ve done for the world:

arts, fashion, and lifestyle:

jeans - levi strauss

modern bras - ida rosenthal

sewing machines - isaac merritt singer

modern film industry - carl laemmle (universal pictures), adolph zukor (paramount pictures), william fox (fox film forporation), louis b. mayer (mgm - metro-goldwyn-mayer), harry, sam, albert, and jack warners (warner bros.), steven spielberg, mel brooks, marx brothers

operetta - jacques offenbach

comic books - stan lee

graphic novels - will eisner

teddy bears - morris and rose michtom

influential musicians - irving berlin, stephen sondheim, benny goodman, george gershwin, paul simon, itzhak perlman, leonard bernstein, bob dylan, leonard cohen

artists - mark rothko

actors - elizabeth taylor, jerry lewis, barbara streisand

comedians - lenny bruce, joan rivers, jerry seinfeld

authors - judy blume, tony kushner, allen ginsberg, walter mosley

culture:

esperanto - ludwik lazar zamenhof

feminism - betty friedan, gloria steinem, ruth bader ginsberg

queer and trans rights - larry kramer, harvey milk, leslie feinberg, abby stein, kate bornstein, frank kameny, judith butler

international women's day - clara zetkin

principles of journalizm, statue of liberty, and pulitzer prize - joseph pulitzer

"the new colossus" - emma lazarus

universal declaration of human rights - rene samuel cassin

holocaust remembrance and human rights activism - elie wiesel

workers rights - louis brandeis, rose schneiderman

public health care, women's rights, and children's rights - lillian wald

racial equity - rabbi abraham joshua heschel, julius rosenwald, andrew goodman, michael schwerner

political theory - hannah arendt

disability rights - judith heumann

black lives matter slogan and movement - alicia garza

#metoo movement - jodi kantor

institute of sexology - magnus hirschfeld

technology:

word processing computers - evelyn berezin

facebook - mark zuckerberg

console video game system - ralph henry baer

cell phones - amos edward joel jr., martin cooper

3d - leonard lipton

telephone - philipp reis

fax machines - arthur korn

microphone - emile berliner

gramophone - emile berliner

television - boris rosing

barcodes - norman joseph woodland and bernard silver

secret communication system, which is the foundation of the technology used for wifi - hedy lamarr

three laws of robotics - isaac asimov

cybernetics - norbert wiener

helicopters - emile berliner

BASIC (programming language) - john george kemeny

google - sergey mikhaylovich brin and larry page

VCR - jerome lemelson

fax machine - jerome lemelson

telegraph - samuel finley breese morse

morse code - samuel finley breese morse

bulletproof glass - edouard benedictus

electric motor and electroplating - boris semyonovich jacobi

nuclear powered submarine - hyman george rickover

the internet - paul baran

icq instant messenger - arik vardi, yair goldfinger,, sefi vigiser, amnon amir

color photography - leopold godowsky and leopold mannes

world's first computer - herman goldstine

modern computer architecture - john von neumann

bittorrent - bram cohen

voip internet telephony - alon cohen

data archiving - phil katz, eugene roshal, abraham lempel, jacob ziv

nemeth code - abraham nemeth

holography - dennis gabor

laser - theodor maiman

instant photo sharing online - philippe kahn

first automobile - siegfried samuel marcus

electrical maglev road - boris petrovich weinberg

drip irrigation - simcha blass

ballpoint pen and automatic gearbox - laszlo biro

photo booth - anatol marco josepho

medicine:

pacemakers and defibrillators - louise robinovitch

defibrillators - bernard lown

anti-plague and anti-cholera vaccines - vladimir aronovich khavkin

polio vaccine - jonas salk

test for diagnosis of syphilis - august paul von wasserman

test for typhoid fever - ferdinand widal

penicillin - ernst boris chain

pregnancy test - barnhard zondek

antiretroviral drug to treat aids and fight rejection in organ transplants - gertrude elion

discovery of hepatitis c virus - harvey alter

chemotherapy - paul ehrlich

discovery of prions - stanley prusiner

psychoanalysis - sigmund freud

rubber condoms - julius fromm

birth control pill - gregory goodwin pincus

asorbic acid (vitamin c) - tadeusz reichstein

blood groups and rh blood factor - karl landsteiner

acyclovir (treatment for infections caused by herpes virus) - gertrude elion

vitamins - caismir funk

technique for measuring blood insulin levils - rosalyn sussman yalow

antigen for hepatitus - baruch samuel blumberg

a bone fusion technique - gavriil abramovich ilizarov

homeopathy - christian friedrich samuel hahnemann

aspirin - arthur ernst eichengrun

science:

theory of relativity - albert einstein

theory of the electromagnetic field - james maxwell

quantum mechanics - max born, gustav ludwig hertz

quantum theory of gravity - matvei bronstein

microbiology - ferdinand julius cohn

neuropsychology - alexander romanovich luria

counters for x-rays and gamma rays - robert hofstadter

genetic engineering - paul berg

discovery of the antiproton - emilio gino segre

discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation - arno allan penzias

discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe - adam riess and saul merlmutter

discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity - roger penrose

discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of the milky way - andrea ghez

modern cosmology and the big bang theory - alexander alexandrovich friedmann

stainless steel - hans goldschmidt

gas powered vehicles

interferometer - albert abraham michelson

discovery of the source of energy production in stars - hans albrecht bethe

proved poincare conjecture - grigori yakovlevich perelman

biochemistry - otto fritz meyerhof

electron-positron collider - bruno touschek

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Leonard Joseph "Chico" Marx was born on March 22, 1887 #botd

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Penny Serenade (George Stevens, 1941) Cast: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Beulah Bondi, Edgar Buchanan, Ann Doran, Eva Lee Kuney, Leonard Willey, Wallis Clark, Walter Soderling, Jane Biffey. Screenplay: Morrie Ryskind, based on a story by Martha Cheavens. Cinematography: Joseph Walker. Art direction: Lionel Banks. Film editing: Otto Meyer. Music: W. Franke Harling. Penny Serenade was released in April 1941, which explains the cozy japonaiserie of the scenes set in the country that would be vilified by Americans after Pearl Harbor, only eight months later. The idyllic sojourn of the Adamses in Japan would be brief, however, cut short by an earthquake that brings on Julie Adams's miscarriage, complications of which leave her unable to bear the children she so longs for. But that's only the beginning of their misfortunes, which left many moviegoers holding soggy handkerchiefs. The phrase "they don't make 'em like this anymore" comes to mind, except that they do: Millions of people tuned in every week to follow the fortunes of the Pearson family on This Is Us. It's easy to dismiss this kind of cathartic cinema and its TV descendants, but it serves a need that shouldn't be dismissed cynically. We may prefer the Irene Dunne and Cary Grant of The Awful Truth (Leo McCarey, 1937) and My Favorite Wife (Garson Kanin, 1940), but their starry presence helps lift Penny Serenade out of the vale of tears. Grant earned one of his two Oscar nominations -- the other was for None But the Lonely Heart (Clifford Odets, 1944) -- for this film. The Academy always prefers acting that shows over acting that naturally arises out of a performer's established persona, and while his performance is by no means one of Grant's best -- there are dozens more that could be cited as essential for their Cary-Grantness -- it does make Penny Serenade more watchable than it might be today. Dunne is less challenged by her role: Noble suffering was her forte in most of her films; comic giddiness was the exception. But she doesn't overdo it here. Everything else, however, is overdone: the chubby moppets who play the Adamses' adopted daughter at different ages; the motherly rule-bending adoption agency head played by Beulah Bondi; the gruff but tender chum known as Applejack and played by Edgar Buchanan; the sentimental old songs that key each flashback. It comes as a shock to learn that so much of this tearjerking was done by screenwriter Morrie Ryskind, who got his start writing gags for the Marx Brothers and was the screenwriter for Gregory La Cava on the screwball My Man Godfrey (1936) and the acerbic Stage Door (1937).

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Nemaha County (KS) 1940 Draft Order (Official List Continued) Courier Tribune25 Nov 1940page 1 Continued from December 23, 2023 151 Henry Francis Hermesch152 Leonard Samuel Roth153 Alex Cyril Baumgartner154 Ora Francis Robbins155 Joseph Edward O’Toole156 Ora Clifford Brammer157 Wilbur Sylestine Jeanneret158 Dale LeRoy Followell159 Velmer Daniel Meyer160 Joseph Bernard McCourt161 John Marx…

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A Night at the Opera (1935) directed by Sam Wood cinematorgraphy by Merrit B. Gerstad

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Leonard Joseph "Chico" Marx (March 22, 1887 – October 11, 1961) was an American comedian, musician, and actor. He was a member of the Marx Brothers (with Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, and Zeppo Marx). His persona in the act was that of a charming, uneducated but crafty con artist, seemingly of rural Italian origin, who wore shabby clothes and sported a curly-haired wig and Tyrolean hat. On screen, Chico is often in alliance with Harpo, usually as partners in crime, and is also frequently seen trying to con or outfox Groucho. Leonard was the oldest of the Marx Brothers to live past early childhood (first-born Manfred Marx had died in infancy). In addition to his work as a performer, he played an important role in the management and development of the act in its early years.

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Leonard Joseph "Chico" Marx (March 22, 1887 – October 11, 1961)

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Leonard Joseph "Chico" Marx (March 22, 1887 – October 11, 1961) was an American comedian, musician, actor and film star. He was a member of the Marx Brothers (with Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, and Zeppo Marx). His persona in the act was that of a charming, uneducated but crafty con artist, seemingly of rural Italian origin, who wore shabby clothes and sported a curly-haired wig and Tyrolean hat. On screen, Chico is often in alliance with Harpo, usually as partners in crime, and is also frequently seen trying to con or outfox Groucho. Leonard was the oldest of the Marx Brothers to live past early childhood (first-born Manfred Marx had died in infancy). In addition to his work as a performer, he played an important role in the management and development of the act in its early years.

Chico was born in Manhattan, New York City, on March 22, 1887. His parents were Sam Marx (called "Frenchie" throughout his life), and his wife, Minnie Schoenberg Marx. Minnie's brother was Al Shean. The Marx family was Franco-German Jewish. His father was a native of Alsace who worked as a tailor and his mother was from East Frisia in Germany.

Billing himself as Chico, he used an Italian persona for his onstage character; stereotyped ethnic characters were common with vaudevillians. His non-Italian-ness was specifically referred to twice on film. In their second feature, Animal Crackers, he recognizes someone he knows to be a fish peddler impersonating a respected art collector:

Ravelli (Chico): "How is it you got to be Roscoe W. Chandler?"

Chandler: "Say, how did you get to be an Italian?"

Ravelli: "Never mind—whose confession is this?"

In A Night at the Opera, which begins in Italy, his character, Fiorello, claims not to be Italian, eliciting a surprised look from Groucho:

Driftwood (Groucho): "Well, things seem to be getting better around the country."

Fiorello (Chico): "I don't know, I'm a stranger here myself."

A scene in the film Go West, in which Chico attempts to placate an Indian chief of whom Groucho has run afoul, has a line that plays a bit on Chico's lack of Italian nationality, but is more or less proper Marxian wordplay:

S. Quentin Quayle (Groucho): "Can you talk Indian?"

Joe Panello (Chico): "I was born in Indianapolis!"

There are moments, however, where Chico's characters appear to be genuinely Italian; examples include the film The Big Store, in which his character Ravelli runs into an old friend he worked with in Naples (after a brief misunderstanding due to his accent), the film Monkey Business, in which Chico claims his grandfather sailed with Christopher Columbus, and their very first outing The Cocoanuts, where Mr. Hammer (Groucho) asks him if he knew what an auction was, in which he responds "I come from Italy on the Atlantic Auction!" Chico's character is often assumed to be dim-witted, as he frequently misunderstands words spoken by other characters (particularly Groucho). However, he often gets the better of the same characters by extorting money from them, either by con or blackmail; again, Groucho is his most frequent target.

Chico was a talented pianist. He originally started playing with only his right hand and fake playing with his left, as his teacher did so herself. Chico eventually acquired a better teacher and learned to play the piano correctly. As a young boy, he gained jobs playing piano to earn money for the Marx family. Sometimes Chico even worked playing in two places at the same time. He would acquire the first job with his piano-playing skills, work for a few nights, and then substitute Harpo on one of the jobs. (During their boyhood, Chico and Harpo looked so much alike that they were often mistaken for each other.)

In the brothers' last film, Love Happy, Chico plays a piano and violin duet with 'Mr. Lyons' (Leon Belasco). Lyons plays some ornate riffs on the violin; Chico comments, "Look-a, Mister Lyons, I know you wanna make a good impression, but please don't-a play better than me!"

In a record album about the Marx Brothers, narrator Gary Owens stated that "although Chico's technique was limited, his repertoire was not." The opposite was true of Harpo, who reportedly could play only two tunes on the piano, which typically thwarted Chico's scam and resulted in both brothers being fired.

Groucho Marx once said that Chico never practiced the pieces he played. Instead, before performances he soaked his fingers in hot water. He was known for 'shooting' the keys of the piano. He played passages with his thumb up and index finger straight, like a gun, as part of the act. Other examples of his keyboard flamboyance are found in A Night at the Opera (1935), where he plays the piano for a group of delighted children, and A Night in Casablanca (1946), where he performs a rendition of "The Beer Barrel Polka".

Chico became the unofficial manager of the Marx Brothers after their mother, Minnie, died in 1929. As manager, he cut a deal to get the brothers a percentage of a film's gross receipts—the first of its kind in Hollywood. Furthermore, it was Chico's connection with Irving Thalberg of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that led to Thalberg's signing the Brothers when they were in a career slump after Duck Soup (1933), the last of their films for Paramount.

For a while in the 1930s and 1940s, Chico led a big band. Singer Mel Tormé began his professional career singing with the Chico Marx Orchestra. Through the 1950s, Chico occasionally appeared on a variety of television anthology shows and some television commercials, most memorably with Harpo in "The Incredible Jewelry Robbery", a pantomime episode of General Electric Theater in 1959.

His nickname (acquired during a card game in Chicago in 1915) was originally spelled Chicko. It was changed to Chico but still pronounced "Chick-oh" although those who were unaware of its origin tended to pronounce it "Cheek-oh". Numerous radio recordings from the 1940s exist where announcers and fellow actors mispronounce the nickname, but Chico apparently felt it was unnecessary to correct them. As late as the 1950s, Groucho was happy to use the wrong pronunciation for comedic effect. A guest on You Bet Your Life told the quizmaster she grew up around Chico (California) and Groucho responded, "I grew up around Chico myself. You aren't Gummo, are you?" Groucho is heard in videos pronouncing it "Chicko", as in a Dick Cavett episode with Groucho talking to Dan Rowan.

During Groucho's live performance at Carnegie Hall in 1972, he states that his brother got the name Chico because he was a "chicken-chaser" (early 20th century slang for womanizer).

As well as being a compulsive womanizer, Chico had a lifelong gambling habit. His favorite gambling pursuits were card games, horse racing, dog racing, and various sports betting. His addiction cost him millions of dollars by his own account. When an interviewer in the late 1930s asked him how much money he had lost from gambling, he answered, "Find out how much money Harpo's got. That's how much I've lost." Gummo Marx, in an interview years after Chico's death, said: "Chico's favorite people were actors who gambled, producers who gambled, and women who screwed." Referring to Chico's love life, George Jessel quipped, "Chico didn't button his fly until he was seventy."

Chico's lifelong gambling addiction compelled him to continue in show business long after his brothers had retired in comfort from their Hollywood income, and in the early 1940s he found himself playing in the same small, cheap halls in which he had begun his career 30 years earlier. The Marx Brothers' penultimate film, A Night in Casablanca (1946), was made for Chico's benefit since he had filed for bankruptcy a few years prior. Because of his out-of-control gambling, the brothers finally took the money as he earned it and put him on an allowance, on which he stayed until his death.

Chico had a reputation as a world-class pinochle player, a game he and Harpo learned from their father. Groucho said Chico would throw away good cards (with the knowledge of spectators) to make the play "more interesting". Chico's last public appearance was in 1960, playing cards on the television show Championship Bridge. He and his partner lost the game.

Chico was married twice. His first marriage was to Betty Karp in 1917. Their union produced one daughter named Maxine (1918–2009). His first marriage was plagued by his infidelity, ending in divorce in 1940; he was very close to his daughter Maxine and gave her acting lessons.

Chico's second marriage was to Mary De Vithas. They married in 1958, three years before his death.

In the 1974 Academy Awards telecast, Jack Lemmon presented Groucho with an honorary Academy Award to a standing ovation. The award was also for Harpo, Chico, and Zeppo, whom Lemmon mentioned by name. It was one of Groucho's final major public appearances. "I wish that Harpo and Chico could be here to share with me this great honor," he said, naming the two deceased brothers (Zeppo was still alive at the time and in the audience). Groucho also praised the late Margaret Dumont as a great straight woman who never understood any of his jokes.

Chico died of arteriosclerosis at age 74 on October 11, 1961, at his Hollywood home. He was the eldest brother and the first to die.

Chico is entombed in the mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Chico's younger brother Gummo is in a crypt across the hall from him.

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Leonard Joseph "Chico" Marx (March 22, 1887 – October 11, 1961) was an American comedian, musician, actor and film star. He was a member of the Marx Brothers (with Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, and Zeppo Marx). His persona in the act was that of a charming, uneducated but crafty con artist, seemingly of rural Italian origin, who wore shabby clothes and sported a curly-haired wig and Tyrolean hat. On screen, Chico is often in alliance with Harpo, usually as partners in crime, and is also frequently seen trying to con or outfox Groucho. Leonard was the oldest of the Marx Brothers to live past early childhood (first-born Manfred Marx had died in infancy). In addition to his work as a performer, he played an important role in the management and development of the act in its early years.

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Famous 1961 deaths

Prof. Erwin Schrödinger (Austrian physicist)(pictured), 73

William Duncan (British-American actor), 81

Arthur Ripley (American movie director), 64

Charles Vance (American baseball player), 69

Nita Naldi (American actress), 66

Rear Adm. Aaron S. Merrill (American admiral), 70

Belinda Lee (British actress), 25

Bishop St. Carlos Duarte Costa (Brazilian Catholic bishop and saint), 72

Robert Garrett (American athlete and philanthropist), 85

George Melford (American actor and movie director), 84

Gary Cooper (American actor), 60

Dr. Carl Jung (Swiss psychiatrist), 85

George Vanderbilt III (American philanthropist), 47

Lee De Forest (American inventor), 87

Ernest Hemingway (American writer)(pictured), 61

Ty Cobb (American baseball player)(pictured), 74

Charles Coburn (American actor), 84

Georgia Robinson (American police officer), 82

Marion Davies (American actress), 64

Chief Lucy Eads aka Chief Cha-Me (Kaw Native American chief), 73

Leonard Marx (American actor and comedian), 74

Joseph M. Schenck (Russian-American movie executive), 84

Rev. Mordecai Ham; Jr. (American evangelist), 84

James Thurber (American cartoonist), 66

Bishop Thomas Flynn (British Catholic bishop), 81

Elsie Ferguson (American actress), 78

Bert Pitman (British sailor), 84

Elwyn Welch (New Zealand Missionary and farmer), 36

Anna Moses (American painter), 101

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Remembering Leonard Joseph "Chico" Marx, born on March 22, 1887 #botd

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A DAY AT THE RACES

MGM, 1937. Directed by Sam Wood.  Camera:  Joseph Ruttenberg.  With Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones, Maureen O'Sullivan, Margaret Dumont, Leonard Ceeley, Douglass Dumbrille, Esther Muir, Sig Ruman

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May 11 in Music History

1728 Birth of French composer and violinist Pierre Gavines in Bordeaux.

1731 Birth of composer Johann Gottfried Seyfert.

1738 FP of Hasse's "Alfonso" Dresden.

1772 Birth of composer Henri-Jean Rigel.

1791 Birth of Bohemian composer Jan Vaclav Hugo Vorisek in Wamberg. 

1797 FP of Dalayrac's "La Maison isolée" Paris.

1811 Birth of Italian baritone Filippo Coletti in Anagni Italy. 

1827 Birth of American composer Septimus Winner in Philadelphia, PA.

1830 FP of Herold and Carafa's "L'Auberge d'Aurey" Paris.

1840 Birth of composer Filippo Capocci.

1849 Death of German composer Otto Nicolai at age 38, in Berlin. 

1855 Russian composer Anatoly Liadov.

1864 FP of Guiraud's "Sylvie" Paris.

1877 Birth of soprano Anna Slavikova-Jordanova. 

1881 Birth of composer Jan van Gilse.

1882 Birth of Austrian composer Joseph Marx in Graz. 

1884 Birth of Romanian soprano Alma Gluck in Bucarest.

1885 Birth of Dutch bass-baritone Joseph Groenen in Waalwijk, Holland.

1888 Birth of Belgian tenor Louis Morrison in Antwerp. 

1888 Birth of American popular music composer Irving Berlin.

1895 Birth of American composer William Grant Still.

1896 Birth of composer Josip Slavenski.

1898 Birth of Swedish bass Sven Nilsson in Gafla Gäfle, Sweden. 

1902 Birth of Brazilian soprano Bidu Sayao.

1905 Birth of American soprano Agnes Davis in Colorado Springs.

1905 Birth of tenor Paul-Henry Vergnes in Lagrasse. 

1906 Death of baritone Gottardo Aldighieri. 

1909 Birth of composer Herbert Murrill.

1913 Birth of American composer Clare Grundman.

1916 Death of German composer Max Reger.

1917 FP of Ferrucio Busoni's operas Arlecchino 'Harlequin' and Turandot at the Stadttheater in Zurich.

1928 Birth of German soprano Ingeborg Reichelt in Frankfurt.

1931 Birth of American bass Arnold Voketaitis in East Haven, CT. 

1938 Birth of American composer Harvey Sollberger in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

1940 Birth of American visualist-music composer Ron Pellegrino.

1940 Birth of American baritone Ron Bottcher in Sandpoint, ID. 

1941 FP of Henry Cowell´s Tales of the Countryside for piano and orchestra in Atlantic City, NJ.

1942 Death of German soprano Helena Forti. 

1944 Birth of American soprano Elaine Cormany in Clifton, TX. 

1945 Birth of New Zealand cellist and conductor Ross Pople.

1945 FP of Leonard Bernstein's Hashkiveinu with text from the Sabbath Evening Service for Cantor, Choir and Organ, at Park Avenue Synagogue in NYC.

1946 Birth of American composer Lenore von Stein.

1947 Death of Swedish composer Ture Rangström.

1948 FP of Henry Cowell's Hymn, Chorale, and Fuguing Tune No. 8 for strings, at Florida State University Recital Hall. School of Music Faculty String Quartet.

1950 Death of tenor Charles Rousseliere.

1953 Birth of American experimental-music composer Steed Cowart.

1954 Birth of Scottish composer Judith Weir in Aberdeen.

1954 FP of Matyas Seiber´s Concertino for Clarinet and Strings in London.

1955 FP of Sir Arthur Bliss' Violin Concerto, in London.

1956 Birth of American composer Jane Ellen in CA.

1956 Birth of Belgian composer Marc Achille Matthys in Gehnt.

1957 Birth of Italian tenor Giuseppe Sabbatini in Rome. 

1960 FP of Chailly's "Il mantello" Florence.

1960 FP of Bucchi's "Una notte in Paradiso" Florence.

1961 Birth of Filipino pianist Cecile Licad in Manila.

1963 Death of Italian tenor Guido Ciccolini in Rome. 

1963 FP of William Grant Still's opera A Southern Interlude. University of Miami Opera. It was later revised as Highway 1, U.S.A.

1966 FP of Andrew Imbrie's Symphony No. San Francisco Symphony.

1976 Death of mezzo-soprano Enid Cruickshank. 

1984 FP of John Harbison's Ulysses' Bow. New Haven Symphony, Murray Sidlin conducting.

1995 FP of John Adams' musical I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky with the Paul Dresher Ensemble conducted by Grant Gershon in Berkeley, CA.

2000 FP of Colin Matthews' Pluto - The Renewer. Composed as an addition to Gustav Holst's The Planets. The Hallé Orchestra, Kent Nagano conducting, in Manchester England.

2002 FP of Kenneth Frazelle's Concerto for Chamber Orchestra. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane conducting in Glendale, CA.