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Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra

Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra

The Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra (EPO) is the largest arts institution in the tri-state area. The EPO is a professional orchestra comprised of approximately 80 musicians led by Music Director Alfred Savia. Each year, the EPO presents a seven-concert classics series, 4 double pops performances, 2 Casual Classics Series concerts and special event concerts, as well as numerous educational and outreach performances. The season balances performances by internationally renowned soloists and local artists, popular works and 20th Century compositions as well as familiar and unique solo instruments. Through the years, Evansville Philharmonic audiences have enjoyed top-quality soloists like Itzhak Perlman, Andre Watts, Roger Williams, Judy Collins, Doc Severinsen, Sandi Patty, Joshua Bell, Frederica von Stade, and Daniel Rodriguez, to name a few. The EPO is governed by a board of directors made up of community volunteers and in addition to the musicians, employs a small full-time & part-time staff. Also part of the EPO family are the Evansville Philharmonic Guild and Friends of the Opera, who help with the Orchestra's financial stability, as well as several other volunteer organizations which support the Orchestra in other ways-the Evansville Philharmonic Chorus and Friends of the Evansville Philharmonic Youth Orchestras.

History

EPO began in 1929 when a group of four competent musicians dreamed of forming a symphony. After several more interested local musicians joined the group, they began performing under the name, "Philharmonic Society". After several years of performances, it became apparent that a formal orchestral corporation needed to be established. With the help of Paul H. Schmidt, who became the first Board President, the Orchestra was incorporated on March 7, 1935. The Orchestra grew in quality and public respect under the direction of its first Music Director Gaylord Browne. His first concert as Music Director was presented on December 9, 1934. After his resignation in 1943, he was replaced by Dr. George Dasch of Chicago. Dr. Dasch led the Orchestra until 1953, when Minas Christian assumed the post. Performing regularly at the Vanderburgh Coliseum under the direction of Minas Christian, the Orchestra remained healthy. However, in 1953, a relationship between the University of Evansville and the Orchestra was severed, and the Orchestra found itself in a difficult situation with no office and inadequate funding. With the help of Main Street merchants and bankers and advice from Helen Thompson, Executive Director of the American Symphony Orchestra League, the Orchestra became a fully independent community orchestra, and in 1967, moved into its new home, Vanderburgh Auditorium. The changing times brought new problems to the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra. The popularity of the Owensboro Symphony attracted Philharmonic musicians, scheduling conflicts developed, and more players were imported from Indiana University to fill personnel needs. After twenty-six years of service to the Philharmonic, Minas Christian retired, and an operating deficit of almost $100,000 once again made the future of the Philharmonic uncertain. A meeting was held late in 1979 with twenty prominent area businessmen. Each agreed to pledge enough to ensure continued operation of the Orchestra. By April, 1980, the search for a new Music Director was completed and the announcement was made that Mr. Stewart Kershaw would assume the post. Soon, problems which had been plaguing the Philharmonic in recent years were overcome by greatly increased ticket sales and financial support. Vastly improved relations and full cooperation with the University of Evansville Music Department and the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra were secured. The nine years under Stewart Kershaw's baton brought forth a new and varied community response, with attendance records being set season after season. High artistic quality enabled the Orchestra to sell nearly all the 2,001 seats in the Vanderburgh Auditorium for virtually every concert in both the Classics and Pops series, serving more than 24,000 patrons. In May, 1989, Stewart Kershaw ended his tenure as Music Director of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra. After a fond farewell, Maestro Kershaw was replaced by Alfred Savia, then Resident Conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Florida, and Associate Conductor of the New Orleans Symphony.

Victory Theatre

The 1998-99 season marked a new era for the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra as they moved to their new home, the Victory Theatre, a newly renovated 1920's movie house and sold-out on subscription for the first time in the Orchestra's history on the Classics and Pops Series. Located on the corner of Main and Sixth, the Victory Theatre serves as a multi-purpose city-owned facility for the entire community. A Theater District Committee was formed in 1991 to begin raising funds to renovate a historical theater, The Victory. It was during Stewart Kershaw's tenure that the Philharmonic became aware of the viability of the Theatre for the Orchestra. With the arrival of Alfred Savia in 1989, that dream began evolving into reality. Savia, musicians, staff, board members and community have pledged money toward this effort in addition to city support. The 1998-99 season also marks the time for the Orchestra's second Assistant Conductor, Timothy J. Hankewich, who succeeds Robert Moody after a tenure of six years with the Orchestra. In addition to the free Labor Day outdoor performance, the EPO repeated the performance in Albion, Illinois to an audience of over 4,000 people. The Orchestra also returned to Princeton, Indiana, performing for the first time in that community since 1973. For the 1999-00 season, Teresa Cheung was appointed Assistant Conductor of the Orchestra replacing Mr. Hankewich who accepted a position with the Kansas City Symphony.

External Links

[http://www.evansvillephilharmonic.org/ Official Website] Category:American orchestras Category:Evansville, Indiana Category:Indiana culture

Itzhak Perlman

Itzhak Perlman (born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli violinist and teacher. He is regarded as one of the greatest violinists of the late 20th century, and is certainly one of the most famous. In addition to performing, he has a substantial teaching career, and gives private lessons and master classes on violin and chamber music worldwide. He is currently the Dorothy Richard Starling Chair of Violin Studies at the Juilliard School, the position formerly held by his teacher, Dorothy Delay. Perlman was born in Jaffa. He contracted polio at the age of four, leaving him on crutches, and confining him to play the violin seated even today. He studied at the Academy of Music in Jaffa before moving to the United States to study at the Juilliard School. Perlman made his debut at Carnegie Hall in 1963. Soon, Perlman began to tour extensively. He has made a large number of records, and from the 1970s began to appear on shows such as The Tonight Show and Sesame Street, as well as playing at a number of functions at the White House. For many years, in the 1980s and early 1990s, his week-long appearances, typically including Tuesday and Thursday evening concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and a Wednesday evening "Virtuoso Series" recital, and sometimes even a "pops" program Friday and Saturday evenings, were a highlight of the Hollywood Bowl summer season. He was also the soloist for the score of Schindler's List by John Williams, which subsequently won an Academy Award for Best Score. As well as playing and recording the classical music for which he is best known, Perlman has also played jazz and klezmer. Recently, he has also begun to conduct, taking the post of Principal Guest Conductor at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Perlman has received many honors, including Kennedy Center Honors in 2003. His version of Paganini's 24 Caprices is among his best known recordings. Perlman plays on the famous Soil Strad violin.

Awards and recognitions

Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance:
- Daniel Barenboim & Itzhak Perlman for Brahms: The Three Violin Sonatas (1991)
- Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lynn Harrell & Itzhak Perlman for Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios (1988)
- Vladimir Ashkenazy, Lynn Harrell & Itzhak Perlman for Tchaikovsky: Piano Trio in A Minor (1982)
- Itzhak Perlman & Pinchas Zukerman for Music for Two Violins (Moszkowski: Suite For Two Violins/Shostakovich: Duets/Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins) (1981)
- Itzhak Perlman & Vladimir Ashkenazy for Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano (
- 1979) Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra) Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance (without orchestra) Grammy Award for Best Classical Album Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical Perlman, Itzhak Perlman, Itzhak Perlman, Itzhak Perlman, Itzhak Perlman, Itzhak ja:イツァーク・パールマン

Andre Watts

André Watts (born June 20, 1946) is a classical pianist and Professor at the Jacobs School of Music of Indiana University in Bloomington. Born in Nuremberg, Germany, Watts is the son of a Hungarian mother, Maria Alexandra Gusmits, and African-American father, Sargeant Herman Watts. After studying music in Philadelphia and conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, he received a wider audience when he debuted in a nationally televised concert with the New York Philharmonic in 1963. His first world tour was in 1967. He is mostly associated with 19th century music. Watts grew up in Europe, living mostly near army posts where his father was stationed, until he was eight years old and Herman’s military assignment lead to the family moving to the United States. They settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Watts began to study the violin when he was four. By age six he had decided that the piano was his instrument. His mother, a pianist herself, started him with his first lessons. Like most kids, Watts hated to practice. To encourage him, Maria began to tell him stories of the great musicians from her county like pianist/composer Franz Liszt, making it clear that Liszt had practiced faithfully. Liszt would soon became Watts' hero, and he even adopted Liszt's theatrical playing style. In 1962, Herman and Maria divorced, and Watts stayed with his mother. He gives Maria credit for influencing his development. She supported the two of them working as a secretary and later as a receptionist. He enrolled at the Philadelphia Academy of Music, where he studied with Genia Robinor, Doris Bawden, and Clement Petrillo, graduating June 1963. He entered his first competition at nine, competing with 40 other kids for a chance to appear in the Philadelphia Orchestra's Children's Concerts. Watts won the competition playing a piano concerto by Joseph Haydn. At ten, Watts performed the Felix Mendelssohn G minor concerto with the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra and at 14, Cesar Franck's Symphonic Variations, again with the Philadelphia Orchestra. At 16, he auditioned at Carnegie Recital Hall. He played his hero Franz Liszt's E-flat Concerto at Lincoln Center with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by the celebrated Leonard Bernstein. A Young People's Concert was taped and shown on CBS, January 15, 1963. Bernstein introduced his pianist to the national television audience. Three weeks later Bernstein asked Watts to fill in for ailing Glenn Gould, the scheduled soloist for the New York Philharmonic's regular subscription concert January 1, 1963. Watts again played his hero’s E flat Concerto, making international headlines and earning a Columbia record contract. When he had sounded his final cadenza, the whole orchestra joined the audience in a standing ovation. Even the violinists put down their bows and applauded him. Watts recorded the album The Exciting Debut of Andre Watts. Following graduation, Watts enrolled at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, where he studied part-time for a bachelor of music degree with pianist Leon Fleisher. He graduated in 1972. The following year, he appeared at New York City's Lewisohn Stadium with Seiji Ozawa, a Japanese conductor, and the New York Philharmonic, performing Camille Saint-Saens' Concerto No. 2 in G minor. In September 1963, he again performed the Liszt concerto at the Hollywood Bowl. He opened the 1964-65 National Symphony Orchestra's season in Washington, D.C., performing the Saint-Saens concerto. He returned to New York in January 1965 to perform Chopin's Concerto No. 2 in F minor with the Philharmonic. Watts made his European debut in a London performance with the London Symphony Orchestra in June 1966. Watts signed a long-term exclusive contract with CBS Records on his 21st birthday. By 1969 he was on a full-scale concert schedule, booked three years in advance. Gradually the number of concerts increased, reaching 150 concerts a year by the mid-1970s, and Watts was performing about eight months out of the year. In the late 1970s, he fulfilled roughly 100 dates per year, divided between concert appearances and solo recitals. At the age of 30, he celebrated his tenth consecutive appearance in Lincoln Center's Great Performance Series at Avery Fisher Hall in 1976. Since he was the first classical artist to make his debut on television, the producers believed he should have the first solo televised recital. The performance was shown live in its entirety from Lincoln Center. His PBS Sunday afternoon telecast in 1976 was the first solo recital presented on Live from Lincoln Center and the first full-length recital to be aired nationally in prime time. Watts managed lived up to his early promise, something many child prodigies do not, and became a greater sensation as time passed. In 1964 the National Academy of Recording Artists and Sciences presented Watts with a Grammy Award and in February 1973 he was selected as Musical America's Musician of the Month. Other honors and awards include honorary doctorates from Albright College and Yale University, the Order of the Zaire from that African country, and a University of the Arts Medal from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Watts continues as one of the world's "greatest in demand" pianists. He continues performing on the most prestigious concert stages and with the most preeminent orchestras and conductors.

Awards and Recognitions

; Grammy Award for Best New Classical Artist :
- Grammy Awards of 1964

See also


- the Negro Almanac: A Reference Work on the Afro American, New York 1976.

External links


- http://www.cramermarderartists.com/watts.htm Watts, André Watts, André Watts, André

Judy Collins

Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939 in Seattle, Washington) is an American folk and standards singer.

Biography

As a child Collins studied classical piano with Antonia Brico, making her first public debut at age 13 performing Mozart's Concerto for Two Pianos. However, it was the music of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and the traditional songs of the folk revival of the early 1960s, that piqued Collins' interest and awoke in her a love of lyrics. Three years after her debut as a piano prodigy, she was playing guitar. She eventually made her way to Greenwich Village, New York City, where she played in clubs until she signed with Elektra Records, a record label with which she has been associated for 35 years. In 1961, Collins released her first album, A Maid of Constant Sorrow, at the age of 22. At first she sang traditional folk songs, or songs written by others, in particular the social poets of the time, such as Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, and Bob Dylan. She recorded her own versions of seminal songs of the period, such as Dylan's "Mr. Tambourine Man" and Pete Seeger's "Turn, Turn, Turn". Collins was also instrumental in bringing then little known composers to a wider public; for example, she recorded songs by Canadian poet Leonard Cohen, and Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell. With her 1967 album Wildflowers, she began to record her own compositions, the first of which was entitled "Since You've Asked". This album also provided Collins with a major hit, and a Grammy award, with her version of Joni Mitchell's "Both Sides Now", which reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100. 1968's Who Knows Where the Time Goes was produced by Stephen Stills (of Crosby, Stills & Nash), with whom Collins was romantically involved at the time (she is the "Judy" of the Stills-written CSN classic "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"). It had a mellow country sound, and included Ian Tyson's "Someday Soon" and the title track, a Sandy Denny song which has been covered by several artists. By the 1970s, Collins had a solid reputation as an art song singer and folksinger. She had also begun to stand out with her own compositions. She was also known for her broad range of material: her songs from this period include the traditional gospel song "Amazing Grace", the Stephen Sondheim Broadway ballad "Send in the Clowns" (both of which were top 20 hits as singles), and her own compositions such as "My Father" and "Born to the Breed". In more recent years, Collins has taken to writing, producing a memoir, "Trust Your Heart" in 1987, and two novels. Though her record sales are not what they once were, she still records and tours. One of her more recent albums is a collection of songs based on her novel Shamelss. She performed at US President Bill Clinton's first inauguration in 1993, singing "Amazing Grace" and "Chelsea Morning". (The Clintons have stated that their daughter Chelsea was named after Collins' recording of the Joni Mitchell song.)

Activism

Like other folk singers of her generation, Collins was drawn to social activism. She is a representative for UNICEF and campaigns on behalf of the abolition of landmines. Following the 1992 death of her son Clark Taylor at age 33 after a long bout with depression and substance abuse, she has also become a strong advocate of suicide prevention. Her 2003 book, Sanity & Grace, chronicles her recovery from her son's suicide and attempts to provide some comfort and guidance to other families dealing with the loss of a loved one to suicide. She describes the "Seven T's" as a means for going through this process of recovery: Truth, Therapy, Trust, Try, Treat, Treasure, and Thrive. The Truth is that there should be no guilt in suicide; Therapy helps people express their emotions and seek grief counseling; Trust is the effort to believe that one can make it through the loss and keep a belief in life and in the future; Try means to stay away from drugs and alcohol or any excess--including overeating--as a means to deal with the loss and pain; Treat means to take care of the mind, body, and spirit with exercise and meditation; Treasure means to keep the memory of the moments to be treasured, and for this Collins recommends writing and keeping a journal; and Thrive means to be positive, hopeful, open to love and others, and continuing to know that you can rebuild your life on a basis of hope.

Awards and recognition


- Grammy Award, Best Folk Performance or Folk Recording, "Both Sides Now", 1968
- Grammy Award, Song of the Year, "Send in the Clowns", 1975
- Nominated with Jill Godmillow for an Academy Award for the documentary "Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman", about her classical piano instructor, conductor Antonia Brico.

Discography


- Maid of Constant Sorrow (1961)
- The Golden Apples of the Sun (1962)
- Judy Collins #3 (1964)
- The Judy Collins Concert (1964)
- Judy Collins' Fifth Album (1965)
- In My Life (1966)
- Wildflowers (1967)
- Who Knows Where The Time Goes? (1968)
- Whales and Nightingales (1970)
- Both Sides Now (1971)
- Living (1971)
- Sunny Goodge Street (1972)
- True Stories, and Other Dreams (1973)
- Judith (1975)
- Bread and Roses (1976)
- So Early in the Spring (1977) (15th anniversary collection)
- Hard Times for Lovers (1979)
- Running for My Life (1980)
- Times of Our Lives (1982)
- Home Again (1984)
- Trust Your Heart (1987)
- Sanity and Grace (1989)
- Fires of Eden (1990)
- Baby's Bedtime (1990)
- Baby's Morningtime (1990)
- Judy Sings Dylan... Just Like a Woman (1993)
- Come Rejoice! A Judy Collins Christmas (1994)
- Shameless (1994)
- Voices (1995)
- Christmas at the Biltmore Estate (1997)
- Forever: An Anthology (1997)
- Both Sides Now (1998)
- Classic Broadway (1999)
- All on a Wintry Night (2000)
- Judy Collins Live at Wolf Trap (2000)
- Judy Collins Sings Leonard Cohen: Democracy (2004)
- "The Essential Judy Collins" (2004)

Videography


- Baby's Bedtime (1992)
- Baby's Morningtime (1992)
- Christmas at the Biltmore Estate (1998)
- The Best of Judy Collins (1999)
- Intimate Portrait: Judy Collins (2000)
- Judy Collins Live at Wolf Trap (2003)
- Wildflower Festival (2003) (DVD with guest artists Eric Andersen, Arlo Guthrie, and Tom Rush)

Bibliography


- Trust Your Heart (1987)
- Amazing Grace (1991)
- Sanity and Grace: A Journey of Suicide, Survival and Strength (2003)

Contemporaries


- Joan Baez
- Leonard Cohen
- Bob Dylan
- Joni Mitchell
- Phil Ochs

External links


- [http://www.judycollins.com/biography.html Judy Collins web site]
- [http://www.swinginchicks.com/judy_collins.htm Swingin' Chicks] Collins, Judy Collins, Judy Collins, Judy Collins, Judy Collins, Judy

Doc Severinsen

Carl Hilding "Doc" Severinsen (born July 7, 1927 in Arlington, Oregon) is an American pop and jazz trumpeter, most known for leading the Tonight Show Band in the Johnny Carson era. In the 1940s and 1950s Severinsen was a member of the Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, and Benny Goodman bands. Beginning in 1949, he worked for the National Broadcasting Company, eventually becoming leader of the Tonight Show Band in 1967. Severinsen held that position until 1992, when he left at the same time that Carson retired. On nights when Ed McMahon was absent, Severinsen would serve as fill-in announcer and sidekick. Although Severinsen was adept at comic interplay, he took his role as band leader on The Tonight Show seriously, and campaigned for the band to get featured slots in the show (Carson, being a jazz fan, would sometimes grant one). Severinsen resented the notion that he might be an inferior musician, and would challenge other trumpeters to play against him off the same charts. In the 1960s he also recorded with the Clarke/Boland Big Band and the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis band. Severinsen was also the second trumpeter whose recording of the fanfare "Abblasen", composed by Gottfried Reiche, has been used as the theme for the CBS News program Sunday Morning. Although he continues to record with jazz artists, his own recordings as a leader have consisted mainly of pop music. He is the principal pops conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Phoenix Symphony, and since 2001 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Music and Katherine K. Herberger Heritage Chair for Visiting Artists at Arizona State University School of Music.

External Links


- [http://www.docseverinsen.com/ Official website]
- [http://www.johnnycarson.com/carson/bio_doc.jsp Tonight Show Bio] Severinsen, Doc Severinsen,Doc Severinsen,Doc Severinsen,Doc Severinsen, Doc

Sandi Patty

Sandi Patty (born July 12 1956), known as "The Voice," is a Contemporary Christian music singer, renowned for the breadth of her voice, once called "nuclear powered;" both in terms of range and musical genres, as well as her impeccable musicality and powerful, yet flexible voice.

Early life

Patty was born to a minister of music and his wife, the church pianist, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. She first performed at the age of two, when she sang "Jesus Loves Me" for her church. A few years later, she and her brothers joined her parents in a performing group, known as "The Ron Patty Family," performing at small churches across the nation. She attended both San Diego State University, and Anderson University in Anderson, Indiana, where she studied voice and conducting.

Singing career

Patty recorded her first album, For My Friends, an independent effort, that landed in the hands of record executives at Singspiration! In 1979, she was signed to Singspiration! and released her first professional CD, Sandi's Song. A printer's error on the labeling listed her name as Sandi Patti, and used this moniker as her stage name for the next 15 years. Her career excelled after she won her first two Dove Awards in 1982, and began singing backup for Bill Gaither and the Bill Gaither Trio. She headlined her first national tour in 1984, and reached national acclaim after her rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner was included during the ABC Statue of Liberty rededication broadcast on July 4, 1986. This exposure led to multiple mainstream television appearances including The Tonight Show, Christmas in Washington, and Walt Disney Fourth of July extravaganza. At the peak of her career, her concerts were so heavily attended that she performed in often sold-out mainstream arenas and concert halls. In the late 80s and early 90s, she averaged over 200 concerts a year, and supported a staff of over 30 that managed her career. She is the most awarded Christian Female Singer in history by the Gospel Music Association and in 2004, was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. Her career stalled in the mid-90s due to personal problems, but she slowly rebuilt her career, expanding her musical appeal by performing pops concerts with symphony orchestras, including the Atlanta Symphony and the Cincinnati Pops.

Personal life

While studying at Anderson University, Patty married John Helvering, who became her business manager. They divorced in 1992, and it was revealed in 1995 that during the marriage Patty had an adulterous affair with Don Peslis, a former backup singer. This revelation had a chilling effect on her career and her reputation in the Christian music industry. She has since written a biography that chronicles her rise to stardom and the rebuilding of her career, entitled "Broken on the Back Row." Patty is currently married to Peslis. She has four children from her marriage with John Helvering. She currently lives in Anderson, Indiana.

Awards


- Gospel Music Hall of Fame inductee in 2004
- 39 Dove Awards: 1982 (x2), 1983 (x1), 1984 (x4), 1985 (x4), 1986 (x1), 1987 (x3), 1988 (x3), 1989 (x5), 1990 (x2), 1991 (x3), 1992 (x4), 1994 (x1), 1995 (x1), 1996 (x1), 1998 (x2), 1999 (x2)
- 5 Grammy Awards: 1984, 1986, 1987(x2), 1991
- 4 Billboard Music Awards
- 5 Gold albums (RIAA)
- 3 Platinum albums (RIAA)

Discography


- 1978 - For My Friends
- 1979 - Sandi's Song
- 1981 - Love Overflowing
- 1982 - Lift Up the Lord
- 1983 - The Gift Goes On (Christmas)
- 1983 - Live: More Than Wonderful
- 1984 - Songs from the Heart
- 1985 - Hymns Just for You
- 1986 - Morning Like This
- 1988 - Make His Praise Glorious
- 1989 - The Finest Moments
- 1989 - Sandi Patty and The Friendship Company
- 1990 - Another Time, Another Place
- 1991 - The Friendship Company: Open for Business
- 1992 - Hallmark Christmas: Celebrate Christmas!
- 1993 - LeVoyage
- 1994 - Find It On the Wings
- 1996 - Hallmark Christmas: It's Christmas! Sandi Patty & Peabo Bryson
- 1996 - O Holy Night! (Christmas)
- 1996 - An American Songbook
- 1997 - Artist of My Soul
- 1998 - Libertad Me Das (Spanish Language Recording)
- 1999 - Together: Sandi Patty & Kathy Troccoli
- 2000 - These Days
- 2001 - All the Best...Live!
- 2003 - Take Hold of Christ
- 2004 - Hymns of Faith...Songs of Inspiration
- 2005 - Yuletide Joy (Christmas)
- 2005 - Duets

External links


- [http://www.sandipatty.com Official website]
- [http://www.christianitytoday.com/music/artists/sandipatty.html Christianity Today profile]
- [http://www.umobile.edu/starlight/sandip.htm Profile by the University of Mobile]
- [http://www.wma.com/sandi_patty/summary/ William Morris Agency profile; includes touring schedule]
- [http://www.mp3.com/sandi-patty/artists/1989/biography.html Biography at mp3.com] Patty, Sandi Patty, Sandi Patty, Sandi

Frederica von Stade

Frederica von Stade (b. June 1, 1945) is an American mezzo-soprano. She was born in Somerville, New Jersey, and grew up loving opera. She made her debut with the Metropolitan Opera in 1970, and has since performed many roles with the Met. She has also performed with almost every major opera company in the United States. In addition to her opera work, she has also performed and recorded new recordings of numerous musicals, such as The Sound of Music and Show Boat, as well as appearing on numerous PBS specials, most notably in 1991's A Carnegie Hall Christmas Concert. Ms. von Stade was the featured performer at the opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Ms. von Stade was the idol of a key character in the CBS series Northern Exposure (her music appeared on its original soundtrack album). Ms. von Stade's nickname is "Flicka." She has made over sixty recordings with every major label, including complete operas, aria albums, symphonic works, solo recital programs, and popular crossover albums. Her recordings have garnered six Grammy nominations, two Grand Prix du Disc awards, the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, Italy's Premio della Critica Discografica, and "Best of the Year" citations by Stereo Review and Opera News. Miss von Stade was awarded France's highest honor in the Arts when she was appointed as an officer of L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and in 1983 she was honored with an award given at The White House by President Reagan in recognition of her significant contribution to the arts.

External links


- [http://www.fredericavonstade.com Official Frederica Von Stade web site]

March 7

March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (67th in Leap years). There are 299 days remaining.

Events


- 161 - Roman emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by co-Emperors Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, an unprecedented political arrangement in the Roman Empire.
- 1798 - The French army enters in Rome: the birth of the Roman Republic
- 1799 - Napoleon I of France captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
- 1814 - Napoleon wins the Battle of Craonne.
- 1827 - Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner, a wealthy heiress in Cheshire, England is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the future politician in colonial New Zealand.
- 1848 - The Great mahele (land division) is signed in Hawaii.
- 1850 - United States Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in which he endorses the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Pea Ridge - Union forces led by General Samuel Curtis defeat Confederate troops under General Earl Van Dorn at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
- 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone (patent # 174,464).
- 1911 - Revolution in Mexico.
- 1912 - Roald Amundsen first announces to the world that his expedition has reached the South Pole, though they had arrived on December 14, 1911.
- 1918 - World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany.
- 1936 - World War II: In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
- 1945 - World War II: American troops seize the bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen, Germany and begin to cross.
- 1947 - The Kuomintang and Communist Party of China resume full-fledged Civil War.
- 1950 - Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
- 1951 - Korean War: Operation Ripper - In Korea, United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
- 1965 - In Selma, Alabama, State troopers and local law enforcement forcefully break up a group of 600 civil rights marchers. The event was televised and was dubbed Bloody Sunday.
- 1968 - Vietnam War: The First Battle of Saigon begins.
- 1973 - The ultimately disappointing Comet Kohoutek is discovered by Luboš Kohoutek.
- 1983 - The Nashville Network (TNN) begins broadcasting.
- 1984 - The United States attacks San Juan del Sur in Nicaragua.
- 1987 - Mike Tyson adds the WBA World Heavyweight boxing championship to his WBC one when he beats James Smith after a 12-round fight in Las Vegas, Nevada.
- 1988 - Colombia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
- 1989 - The State Council of the People's Republic of China declares martial law in Lhasa, Tibet.
- 1994 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
- 1996 - The first democratically elected Palestinian parliament is formed.
- 1999 - American film director, Stanley Kubrick, dies in his sleep from a fatal heart attack.
- 2002 - Opening of The IX Paralympics Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- 2002 - The Network Against Prohibition forms in Darwin, Australia.
- 2005 - Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for women's voting rights in Kuwait.

Births


- 189 - Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (d. 211)
- 1481 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)
- 1556 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (d. 1621)
- 1671 - Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)
- 1678 - Filippo Juvara, Italian architect (d. 1736)
- 1687 - Jean Lebeuf, French historian (d. 1760)
- 1693 - Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
- 1715 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d. 1759)
- 1715 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (d. 1755)
- 1730 - Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (d. 1807)
- 1746 - André Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802)
- 1765 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor (d. 1833)
- 1792 - John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)
- 1837 - Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)
- 1849 - Luther Burbank, American biologist and botanist (b. 1849)
- 1850 - Tomáš Masaryk, first President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937)
- 1857 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1940)
- 1872 - Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (d. 1944)
- 1875 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
- 1887 - Heino Eller, Estonian composer (d. 1970)
- 1902 - Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994)
- 1904 - Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)
- 1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi official (d. 1942)
- 1908 - Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)
- 1926 - Alan Sues, American comedian and actor
- 1930 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, Lord Snowdon
- 1934 - Willard Scott, American television broadcaster
- 1938 - David Baltimore, American biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1938 - Janet Guthrie, American race car driver
- 1940 - Rudi Dutschke, German student leader (d. 1979)
- 1940 - Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
- 1942 - Tammy Faye Bakker, American evangelist
- 1942 - Michael Eisner, American film studio executive
- 1944 - Stanley Schmidt, American editor
- 1944 - Townes Van Zandt, American musician and songwriter
- 1945 - John Heard, American actor
- 1945 - Arthur Lee, American musician (Love)
- 1946 - Peter Wolf, American musician (J Geils Band)
- 1947 - Richard Lawson, American actor
- 1947 - Walter Röhrl, German race car driver
- 1949 - Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
- 1950 - Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer
- 1950 - Franco Harris, American football player
- 1952 - Ernie Isley, American singer
- 1952 - Lynn Swann, American football player
- 1955 - Tommy Kramer, American football player
- 1956 - Bryan Cranston, American actor
- 1958 - Rik Mayall British actor
- 1960 - Joe Carter, baseball player
- 1960 - Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player
- 1963 - Bill Brochtrup, American actor
- 1963 - Denyce Graves, American singer
- 1964 - Bret Easton Ellis, American writer
- 1964 - Wanda Sykes, American actress and comedienne
- 1965 - Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
- 1971 - Rachel Weisz, British actress
- 1977 - Mitja Zastrow, German-born swimmer
- 1980 - Laura Prepon, American actress
- 1984 - Mathieu Flamini, French footballer

Deaths


- 322 BC - Aristotle, philosopher (b. 384 BC)
- AD 161 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (b. 86)
- 308 - Saint Eubulus, Christian martyr
- 851 - Nominoe, Duke of Brittany
- 1226 - William de Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader
- 1274 - Thomas Aquinas, Italian scholastic philosopher (b. 1225)
- 1578 - Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (b. 1515)
- 1625 - Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)
- 1724 - Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
- 1767 - Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (b. 1680)
- 1778 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (b. 1720)
- 1810 - Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (b. 1750)
- 1932 - Aristide Briand, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)
- 1952 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893)
- 1957 - Wyndham Lewis, British author and painter (b. 1882)
- 1954 - Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
- 1967 - Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)
- 1974 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)
- 1975 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (b. 1895)
- 1975 - Ben Blue, Canadian actor (b. 1901)
- 1976 - Wright Patman, American politician (b. 1893)
- 1981 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
- 1986 - Jacob Javits, American politician (b. 1904)
- 1988 - Divine, American actor (b. 1945)
- 1991 - Cool Papa Bell, baseball player (b. 1903)
- 1995 - Georges J.F. Kohler, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1946)
- 1997 - Rabbi Emanuel Bronner, German-American soap magnate and philosopher (b. 1908)
- 1997 - Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
- 1999 - Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (b. 1918)
- 1999 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (b. 1928)
- 2000 - Charles Gray, British actor (b. 1928)
- 2000 - Jack Sanford, baseball player (b. 1929)
- 2002 - Doris Allen, American psychologist (b. 1901)
- 2004 - Paul Winfield, American actor (heart attack) (b. 1941)

Holidays and observances


- Catholicism - Feast day of Ss. Perpetua and Felicity
- Albania - Teacher's Day
- Illinois - Casimir Pulaski Day observed, 2005 (First Monday of March)

External links


- [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/7 BBC: On This Day] ---- March 6 - March 8 - February 7 - April 7 -- listing of all days ko:3월 7일 ja:3月7日 simple:March 7 th:7 มีนาคม

December 9

December 9 is the 343rd day (344th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 22 days remaining.

Events


- 1425 - The Catholic University of Leuven is founded
- 1531 - First apparition of the Virgen Mary to Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin on Tepeyac Hill
- 1793 - New York City's first daily newspaper, the American Minerva, is established by Noah Webster.
- 1824 - Battle of Ayacucho: Peruvian nationalists led by Antonio José de Sucre defeat Spanish colonial forces and secure the independence of Peru.
- 1835 - The Republic of Texas captures San Antonio.
- 1851 - The first YMCA in North America is established in Montreal, Quebec.
- 1856 - The Iranian city of Bushehr surrenders to occupying British forces.
- 1861 - American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress.
- 1872 - In Louisiana, P. B. S. Pinchback becomes the first serving African-American governor of a U.S. state.
- 1888 - Statistician Herman Hollerith installs his self-designed computing device at the United States War Department.
- 1897 - Activist Marguerite Durand founds the feminist daily newspaper, La Fronde in Paris.
- 1905 - In France, the law separating church and state is passed.
- 1931 - The Constituent Cortes approves the constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
- 1937 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanjing - Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing.
- 1940 - World War II: Operation Compass - British and Indian troops under the command of Major-General Richard O'Connor attack Italian forces near Sidi Barrani in Egypt.
- 1941 - World War II: The Republic of China, Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea and Cuba declare war on Germany and Japan.
- 1945 - General George S. Patton is injured in an automobile crash in occupied Germany. He dies twelve days later.
- 1946 - The "Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals" began with the "Doctors' Trial", prosecuting doctors alleged to be involved in human experimentation.
- 1950 - Harry Gold is sentenced to thirty years in jail for helping Klaus Fuchs pass information about the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union. His testimony is later instrumental in the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
- 1953 - Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company
- 1958 - Red Scare: The John Birch Society founded in the United States.
- 1960 - The first episode of ITV soap-opera Coronation Street is aired.
- 1961 - The trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Israel ends with him being found guilty of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization.
- 1961 - Tanganyika becomes independent from Britain.
- 1968 - Douglas Engelbart publicly demonstrates his pioneering hypertext system, NLS, in San Francisco.
- 1982 - Activist Norman Mayer threatens to blow up the Washington Monument, before being killed by United States Park Police.
- 1987 - Israeli-Palestinian conflict: The First Intifada begins in the Gaza Strip and West Bank
- 1990 - Lech Wałęsa becomes the first directly elected president of Poland.
- 1992 - The separation of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales is announced
- 2001 - Chris Jericho unifies the WWE Championship and WCW World Heavyweight Championship for the first time ever at WWE Vengeance.
- 2005 - The draw for the 2006 Football World Cup takes place in Leipzig, Germany.
- 2005 - The last regular Routemaster bus service in London, route 159, ends.

Births


- 1447 - Chenghua, Emperor of China (d. 1487)
- 1508 - Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer (d. 1555)
- 1561 - Sir Edwin Sandys, British-born Virginian colonist (d. 1629)
- 1571 - Metius (Adriaan Adriaanszoon), Dutch mathematician and astronomer (d. 1635)
- 1579 - Martin de Porres, Peruvian saint (d. 1639)
- 1594 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (d. 1632)
- 1608 - John Milton, English poet (d. 1674)
- 1610 - Baldassare Ferri, Italian castrato (d. 1680)
- 1667 - William Whiston, English mathematician (d. 1752)
- 1748 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (d. 1822)
- 1842 - Peter Kropotkin, Russian anarchist (d. 1921)
- 1850 - Emma Abbott, American soprano (d. 1891)
- 1868 - Fritz Haber, German chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
- 1871 - Joe Kelley, American baseball player (d. 1943)
- 1876 - Berton Churchill, American actor (d. 1940)
- 1882 - Joaquín Turina, Spanish composer (d. 1949)
- 1886 - Clarence Birdseye, American frozen food manufacturer (d. 1956)
- 1889 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish long-distance runner and Olympic gold medalist (d. 1966)
- 1897 - Hermione Gingold, British actress (d. 1987)
- 1898 - Emmett Kelly, American circus clown (d. 1979)
- 1899 - Jean de Brunhoff, French author (d. 1937)
- 1901 - Ödön von Horváth, Hungarian-born writer (d. 1938)
- 1901 - Jean Mermoz, French pilot (d. 1936)
- 1902 - Margaret Hamilton, American actress (d. 1985)
- 1905 - Dalton Trumbo, American writer (d. 1976)
- 1906 - Grace Murray Hopper, American computer pioneer (d. 1992)
- 1909 - Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., American actor (d. 2000)
- 1911 - Broderick Crawford, American actor (d. 1986)
- 1912 - Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1994)
- 1915 - Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, German soprano
- 1916 - Kirk Douglas, American actor and film producer
- 1917 - James Rainwater, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
- 1919 - William Lipscomb, American chemist and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1920 - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, President of the Italian Republic
- 1922 - Redd Foxx, American comedian and actor (d. 1991)
- 1926 - Henry Way Kendall, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
- 1926 - Jan Křesadlo, Czech writer (d. 1995)
- 1927 - Pierre Henry, French composer
- 1928 - Dick Van Patten, American actor
- 1929 - John Cassavetes, American actor and film director (d. 1989)
- 1929 - Bob Hawke, twenty-third Prime Minister of Australia
- 1930 - Buck Henry, American actor, comedian, writer, director, and producer
- 1931 - Ladislav Smoljak, Czech actor, director and humourist
- 1933 - Morton Downey Jr., American talk show host (d. 2001)
- 1934 - Dame Judi Dench British actress
- 1934 - Junior Wells, American blues harmonica player (d. 1998)
- 1937 - Darwin Joston, American actor (d. 1998)
- 1938 - Deacon Jones, American football player
- 1941 - Beau Bridges, American actor
- 1941 - Dan Hicks, American musician
- 1942 - Dick Butkus, American football player
- 1946 - Sonia Gandhi, Italian-born Indian politician, chair of the United Progressive Alliance
- 1946 - Walter Orange, American drummer (The Commodores)
- 1947 - Tom Daschle, American politician
- 1947 - Jaak Jõerüüt, Soviet-born Estonian politician
- 1950 - Joan Armatrading, West Indian-born British singer
- 1952 - Michael Dorn, American actor
- 1953 - John Malkovich, American actor
- 1957 - Donny Osmond, American singer and actor
- 1958 - Nick Seymour, Australian bassist (Crowded House)
- 1962 - Felicity Huffman, American actress
- 1964 - Paul Landers, German guitarist (Rammstein)
- 1967 - Joshua Bell, American violinist
- 1968 - Kurt Angle, American amateur and professional wrestler
- 1968 - Dave Harold, British snooker player
- 1968 - Brian Bell, American guitarist (Weezer)
- 1969 - Jakob Dylan, American singer and songwriter (The Wallflowers)
- 1969 - Bixente Lizarazu, French international footballer and World Cup winner
- 1972 - Tre Cool (Frank Edwin Wright III), German-born American drummer (Green Day)
- 1972 - Reiko Aylesworth, American actress
- 1972 - Fabrice Santoro, Tahitian-born French tennis player
- 1976 - Imogen Heap, British singer and songwriter
- 1981 - Diya Mirza, Indian actress

Deaths


- 1165 - King Malcolm IV of Scotland
- 1292 - Sheikh Saadi, great Persian sufi poet
- 1437 - Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1368)
- 1544 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (b. 1491)
- 1565 - Pope Pius IV (b. 1499)
- 1603 - William Watson, English conspirator (b. 1559)
- 1625 - Ubbo Emmius, Dutch historian and geographer (b. 1547)
- 1636 - Fabian Birkowski, Polish writer (b. 1566)
- 1641 - Anthony van Dyck, Flemish painter (b. 1599)
- 1669 - Pope Clement IX (b. 1600)
- 1674 - Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, English statesman and historian (b. 1609)
- 1692 - William Mountfort, English actor and dramatist
- 1706 - King Peter II of Portugal (b. 1648)
- 1718 - Vincenzo Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopaedist (b. 1650)
- 1793 - Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac, French aristocrat (b. 1749)
- 1798 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist
- 1887 - Mahmadu Lamine, Senegalese marabout and miltary leader
- 1894 - Pafnuty Chebyshev, Russian mathematician
- 1930 - Andrew "Rube" Foster, American baseball player and founder of the Negro National League
- 1937 - Nils Gustaf Dalén, Swedish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
- 1964 - Dame Edith Sitwell, British poet and critic (b. 1887)
- 1965 - Branch Rickey, American baseball commissioner (b. 1884)
- 1970 - Sir Feroz Khan Noon, Prime Minister Pakistan
- 1971 - Ralph Bunche, American diplomat and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
- 1972 - Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (b. 1881)
- 1984 - Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley, British drummer (Hanoi Rocks) (b. 1960)
- 1995 - Toni Cade Bambara, American author (b. 1939)
- 1996 - Mary Leakey, British archeologist and anthropologist (b. 1913)
- 1998 - Shaughnessy Cohen, Canadian politician (b. 1948)
- 1998 - Archie Moore, American boxer and World Light-Heavyweight Champion (b. 1913)
- 2002 - Stan Rice, American painter, educator, and poet (b. 1942)
- 2003 - Paul Simon, U.S. Senator from Illinois (b. 1928)
- 2004 - David Brudnoy, American radio personality (b. 1940)
- 2004 - Lea De Mae, Czech actress (b. 1976)
- 2005 - Robert Sheckley an American author (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances


- Calendar of saints:
  - Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin : optional memorial
  - Peter Fourier, founder of the Congregation of Notre Dame
- Also see December 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics); specifically the conception of Saint Anne
- Scandinavia (specifically Sweden): Anna's Day. Recognizes everyone named Anna, and marks the day to start the preparation process of the lutefisk to be consumed on Christmas Eve.
- Tanzania - Independence Day (of Tanganyika from Britain, 1961)
- Anti - corruption day

External links


- [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/9 BBC: On This Day] ---- December 8 - December 10 - November 9 - January 9 -- listing of all days ko:12월 9일 ms:9 Disember ja:12月9日 simple:December 9 th:9 ธันวาคม

1934

1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar).

Events

January-April


- January 1 - Alcatraz becomes a federal prison.
- January 1 - Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring."
- January 7 - First Flash Gordon comic strip is published.
- January 10 - Execution of Marinus van der Lubbe
- January 24 - Einstein visits White House
- January 26 - The Apollo Theater opens in Harlem, New York City.
- February 9 - Gaston Doumergue forms a new government in France
- February 12 - The Export-Import Bank is incorporated.
- February 12 to February 16 - Austrian Civil War
- February 23 - Léopold III becomes King of Belgium.
- March 1 - Manchuria becomes Manchukuo
- March 3 - John Dillinger escapes from jail in Crown Point, Indiana, using a wooden pistol
- March 8 - Prince Sigvard of Sweden loses his titles because of his marriage
- March 20 - All the police forces in Germany come under command of Heinrich Himmler
- April 1 - Clyde Barrow and Henry Methvin kill two young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas.
- April 6 - Rudyard Kipling and William Butler Yeats are awarded the Gothenburg Prize for Poetry.
- April 19 - Surgeon R.K. Wilson allegedly takes a photograph of the Loch Ness Monster.
- April 22 - John Dillinger and two others shoot their way out of the FBI ambush in northern Wisconsin

May-June


- May 7 - Pearl of Lao-Tze, 24 x 14 cm, is found in a giant clam off Palawan, Philippines
- May 11 - Dust Bowl: A strong two-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl.
- May 15 - The United States Department of Justice offers a $25,000 reward for John Dillinger.
- May 15 - Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
- May 23 - Near their hide-out in Black Lake, Louisiana, FBI men ambush bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow and fire, killing them.
- May 24 - Tomás Masaryk re-elected president of Czechoslovakia
- May 28 - Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
- June 6 - New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
- June 9 - Release of the animated short The Wise Little Hen, directed by Bert Gillett for the Silly Symphonies series, featuring the debut of Donald Duck.
- June 10 - Italy beat Czechoslovakia 2-1 after extra time to win the 1934 World Cup.
- June 12 - Political parties banned in Bulgaria
- June 27 - Emir of Yemen and ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia conclude a peace treaty
- June 30 - The Nazi SA camp Oranienburg becomes national camp, taken over by the SS.
- June 30 - Night of the Long Knives - Nazis purge the SA

July-September


- July 10 - German social democrat and author Erich Mühsam killed in Oranienburg concentration camp
- July 17 - Supreme court of North Dakota declares lieutenant governor of the state, Ole Olsen, the legitimate governor and tells William Langer to resign. Langer proceeds to declare North Dakota independent. He revokes the declaration after the Supreme Court justices meet him
- July 19 - Francisco Sá Carneiro, Prime Minister of Portugal (1980; died in office).
- July 22 - Outside Chicago, Illinois's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBI agents.
- July 25 - Austrian Nazis assassinate chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss during a failed coup attempt.
- August 2 - Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany, becoming head of state as well as Chancellor.
- August 19 - The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.
- September 8 - Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner Morro Castle kills 134 people.
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