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1941
- Harry Nilsson
Well in 1941 a happy father had a son
And by 1944 the father walked right out the door
And in '45 the mom and son were still alive
But who could tell in '46 if the two were to survive
Well the years were passing quickly
But not fast enough for him
So he close his eyes through '55
And he opened them up again
When he looked around he saw a clown
And the clown seemed very gay
And he set that night to join that circus clown and run away
{Scat solo}
Well he followed every railroad track
An every highway sign
And he had a girl in each new town
And the towns he left behind
And the open road
Was the only road he knew
But the color of his dreams
Slowly turning into blue
The he met a girl the kind of girl
He wanted all his life
She was soft and kind and good to him
So he took her for a wife
And they got a house not far from town
And in a little while
The girl had seen the doctor
And she came home with a smile
Now in 1961 a happy father had a son
And by 1964 the father walked right out the door
And in '65 the mom and son were still around
But what will happen to the boy
Well, in 1941 a happy father had a son
And by 1944, father walks right out the door
And in '45 the mom and son were still alive
But who could tell in '46 if the two were to survive
Well, the years were passing quickly but not fast enough for him
So he close his eyes through '55 then he opened them up again
When he looked around he saw a clown and the clown seemed very gay
And he set that night to join that circus clown and run away
Well, he followed every railroad track and every highway sign
And he had a girl in each new town and the towns he left behind
And the open road was the only road he knew
But the color of his dreams were slowly turning into blue
The he met a girl, the kind of girl he wanted all his life
She was soft and kind and good to him so he took her for his wife
And they got a house not far from town and in a little while
The girl had seen the doctor and she came home with a smile
Now in 1961 a happy father had a son
And by 1964 the father walks right out the door
And in '65 the mom and son were still around
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Великая Отечественная война 1941-1945 гг.
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Видеоканал SENATMEDIA Федерального журнала СЕНАТОР представляет фильм Романа Кармена «ВЕЛИКАЯ ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННАЯ ВОЙНА 1941-1945 ГГ.» Фильм демонстрируется в рамк...
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1941 Brest-Litovsk
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Die Deutsche Wochenschau No. 565. July 2, 1941. The battle for the citadel of Brest-Litovsk. The strongly fortified Soviet fortress lay directly on the borde...
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Die Deutsche Wochenschau No. 565. July 2, 1941. The battle for the citadel of Brest-Litovsk. The strongly fortified Soviet fortress lay directly on the borde...
- published: 09 Dec 2008
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Оборона Трубчевска. 1941 год. www.voenvideo.ru
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- Duration: 55:38
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Оборона Трубчевска. 1941 год. http://www.voenvideo.ru/ Фильм рассказывает о событиях 20 августа - 22 октября 1941 г. у Трубчевска, его обороне войсками Брянс...
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Оборона Трубчевска. 1941 год. http://www.voenvideo.ru/ Фильм рассказывает о событиях 20 августа - 22 октября 1941 г. у Трубчевска, его обороне войсками Брянс...
- published: 16 Nov 2011
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- author: voenvideo
HMS Barham Explodes and Sinks, 1941 [Full Resolution]
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- Duration: 1:12
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HMS Barham Explodes and Sinks, 1941 [Full Resolution]. Dramatic Newsreel footage captured the sinking of the Queen Elizabeth Battleship. A salvo of torpedoes...
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HMS Barham Explodes and Sinks, 1941 [Full Resolution]. Dramatic Newsreel footage captured the sinking of the Queen Elizabeth Battleship. A salvo of torpedoes...
- published: 27 Jul 2011
- views: 1216354
- author: britishpathe
1941 Pearl Harbor Attack Aftermath (HD)
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- Duration: 1:54
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http://romanoarchives.altervista.org/ http://digilander.libero.it/romanoarchives/ 1941. Recently surfaced footage of the aftermath of the Japanese attack on ...
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http://romanoarchives.altervista.org/ http://digilander.libero.it/romanoarchives/ 1941. Recently surfaced footage of the aftermath of the Japanese attack on ...
- published: 15 May 2011
- views: 202149
- author: UnknownWW2InColor
Фильм 1 й «22 июня 1941»
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«Великая Отечественная» (англ. The Unknown War) — документальный сериал советско--британо-американского производства, вышедший на киноэкраны в 1978 году, объ...
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- published: 12 Sep 2011
- views: 142752
- author: Georg3th
Tea Making Tips (1941)
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- Duration: 10:02
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Welcome to the world of a national obsession and a place where people say 'orf' instead of 'off'. Tea connoisseurs will benefit from the six golden tips for ...
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Welcome to the world of a national obsession and a place where people say 'orf' instead of 'off'. Tea connoisseurs will benefit from the six golden tips for ...
- published: 15 Sep 2008
- views: 166448
- author: BFIfilms
Defense of city Mogilev 1941
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- Duration: 7:53
- Updated: 07 May 2013
Rate Comment Subscribe*** This video is about the Defense of City Mogilev in 1941 All video and music intended for educational purpose Video: Movie : "Дн...
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- published: 21 May 2011
- views: 683996
- author: CaptSTURM0VIK
Боевые награды Советского Союза - 1941-1991
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- Duration: 37:18
- Updated: 21 Apr 2013
Боевые награды Советского Союза Фильм расскажет обо всех наградах Советского Союза, а также раскроет неизвестные ранее страницы истории, связанные с орденами...
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Боевые награды Советского Союза Фильм расскажет обо всех наградах Советского Союза, а также раскроет неизвестные ранее страницы истории, связанные с орденами...
- published: 16 May 2011
- views: 15466
- author: Ethan Zwirner
World War Two : 1941 and the man of steel.
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Exploring Josef Stalin's handling of the conflict between the Soviet Union and Germany during the Second World War, revealing how the dictator's mental frail...
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Exploring Josef Stalin's handling of the conflict between the Soviet Union and Germany during the Second World War, revealing how the dictator's mental frail...
- published: 22 Jul 2011
- views: 125312
- author: Rick H
1941 Soundtrack Suite (John Williams)
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- Duration: 14:31
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Music from the Expanded Motion Picture Soundtrack (1979). Composed and Conducted by John Williams, performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony. Feel free to w...
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Music from the Expanded Motion Picture Soundtrack (1979). Composed and Conducted by John Williams, performed by the Hollywood Studio Symphony. Feel free to w...
- published: 16 Oct 2011
- views: 22401
- author: Frederik5495
Tobacco Road-1941
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- Duration: 81:05
- Updated: 09 May 2013
Starring : Charlie Grapewin , Gene Tierney Shiftless Jeeter Lester (played by:Charlie Grapewin of Grapes of Wrath and The Good Earth) and his family of hillb...
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Starring : Charlie Grapewin , Gene Tierney Shiftless Jeeter Lester (played by:Charlie Grapewin of Grapes of Wrath and The Good Earth) and his family of hillb...
- published: 14 Jan 2013
- views: 10618
- author: NiscoAnon
The Bee Gees- 'New York Mining Disaster 1941'
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The Bee Gees- The Best of The Bee Gees- 'New York Mining Disaster 1941'
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The Bee Gees- The Best of The Bee Gees- 'New York Mining Disaster 1941'
- published: 06 Sep 2007
- views: 703850
- author: Graffitist
Lindy Hop - Hellzapoppin (1941)
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A Midsummer Night's Swing Musical Director Guy Barker and guests from Jazz at Lincoln Center 17 June 2010 / 21:00 Stoke Newington Town Hall More info at http...
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A Midsummer Night's Swing Musical Director Guy Barker and guests from Jazz at Lincoln Center 17 June 2010 / 21:00 Stoke Newington Town Hall More info at http...
- published: 04 May 2010
- views: 190776
- author: BarbicanLondon
Кто проспал начало войны 1941 года?
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- Duration: 50:57
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Документальный фильм о начале войны с фашистской Германий. Раскрывает причину неудач РККА в первые месяцы начала войны.
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Документальный фильм о начале войны с фашистской Германий. Раскрывает причину неудач РККА в первые месяцы начала войны.
- published: 11 Apr 2012
- views: 208398
- author: Сергей Филатов
日治香港1941-1945 Hong Kong 1941-1945
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日本於1941年12月8日進攻香港，18日後香港向日軍投降，直至1945年9 月16日，駐港日軍正式投降及統治了香港3年零8個月。 １９４１年１２月２５日、第２３軍を主力とした日本軍が、香港ルートによる列強の中国支援を断ち切るべく、イギリス防衛軍を破って香港を攻略。以後４５年８月の日本の敗戦まで香港は...
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日本於1941年12月8日進攻香港，18日後香港向日軍投降，直至1945年9 月16日，駐港日軍正式投降及統治了香港3年零8個月。 １９４１年１２月２５日、第２３軍を主力とした日本軍が、香港ルートによる列強の中国支援を断ち切るべく、イギリス防衛軍を破って香港を攻略。以後４５年８月の日本の敗戦まで香港は...
- published: 28 Jan 2007
- views: 322501
- author: hkpai
Jugoslavija u ratu 1941-1945 - Epizoda 2 - 6. April 1941.
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- Duration: 59:31
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U ovoj epizodi reč je o petnaestodnevnom ratu Jugoslavije i Nemačke u aprilu 1941. godine. Osnovna pitanja su: * Da li je jugoslovenska Vlada znala tačan dat...
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U ovoj epizodi reč je o petnaestodnevnom ratu Jugoslavije i Nemačke u aprilu 1941. godine. Osnovna pitanja su: * Da li je jugoslovenska Vlada znala tačan dat...
- published: 22 Mar 2012
- views: 10573
- author: bozans
Der Ostfeldzug - Unternehmen Barbarossa 1941
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- Duration: 5:36
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Music= Mark Petrie - From Within & Mark Petrie - Surpass Operation Barbarossa opened up the Eastern Front, to which more forces were committed than in any ot...
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Music= Mark Petrie - From Within & Mark Petrie - Surpass Operation Barbarossa opened up the Eastern Front, to which more forces were committed than in any ot...
- published: 14 Oct 2012
- views: 47778
- author: HCTerrorist
Pearl Harbor Attacked - NBC News 1941
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- Duration: 11:47
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Pearl Harbor Attacked - NBC News December 7, 1941.
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Pearl Harbor Attacked - NBC News December 7, 1941.
- published: 08 Dec 2010
- views: 45854
- author: 80omar80omar80
1941 (6/11) Movie CLIP - Wood, Hollis P. (1979) HD
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- Duration: 4:32
- Updated: 09 May 2013
1941 Movie Clip - watch all clips http://j.mp/yc2vu4 click to subscribe http://j.mp/sNDUs5 Hollis (Slim Pickens) is interrogated by the Japanese Navy lead by...
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1941 Movie Clip - watch all clips http://j.mp/yc2vu4 click to subscribe http://j.mp/sNDUs5 Hollis (Slim Pickens) is interrogated by the Japanese Navy lead by...
- published: 01 Jun 2011
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![Stalin speech - November 7, 1941[English subtitles]](http://web.archive.org./web/20130511121644im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/8IGbjPqFFvA/default.jpg "Stalin speech - November 7, 1941[English subtitles]")
Stalin speech - November 7, 1941[English subtitles]
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Comrade Stalin show your bravery and call the Soviet people for the fight in Second World War! His famous speech, in 1941, when the German Army was only a do...
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Comrade Stalin show your bravery and call the Soviet people for the fight in Second World War! His famous speech, in 1941, when the German Army was only a do...
- published: 08 Jun 2008
- views: 635238
- author: lazarodesouzagomes
BBC- 1941, Stalin and the Man of Steel
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Marking the 70th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, historian Professor David Reynolds re-assesses Stalin's role in the life and d...
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Marking the 70th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, historian Professor David Reynolds re-assesses Stalin's role in the life and d...
- published: 08 Aug 2012
- views: 67820
- author: bottacka
JAKARTA (batavia) INDONESIA Tahun 1941
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Inilah keadaan Jakarta pada tahun 1941. WWuiiiihhh hebat yah....gambarnya udah berwarna. Ga tau nih siapa yang buat. Adakah yang tahu...siapa?
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Inilah keadaan Jakarta pada tahun 1941. WWuiiiihhh hebat yah....gambarnya udah berwarna. Ga tau nih siapa yang buat. Adakah yang tahu...siapa?
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10 May 2013
The sophistication of a global network of thieves who drained cash machines around the globe of an astonishing $45 million in mere hours sent ripples through the security world, not merely for the size of the operation and ease with which it was carried out, but also for the threat that more such thefts may be in store ... Law enforcement agencies from more than a dozen nations were involved in the investigation, U.S ... (Read More ... The U.S ... ....(size: 6.2Kb)
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08 May 2013
CLEVELAND - In the years after his friend's daughter vanished while walking home from school, Ariel Castro handed out fliers with the 14-year-old's photo and performed music at a fundraiser held in her honor. When neighbors gathered for a candlelight vigil just a year ago to remember the girl, Castro was there too, comforting the girl's mother ... He would not say who the father was ... The house was always locked, he said ... ....(size: 9.3Kb)
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10 May 2013
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. Perhaps a backlash against newly arrived non-indigenous immigrants is justifiable, especially in reference to the recent Boston Marathon Bombing. And maybe there are a few non-native immigrants that take advantage of social uplift programs, or that commit crimes. But generally speaking, the United States of America has always been a nation of immigrants ... citizenship which took seven years....(size: 6.2Kb)
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09 May 2013
Gina DeJesus gives a thumbs-up to well-wishers as she arrives Wednesday at her family home in Cleveland after a decade in captivity with two other women. The man suspected of being her captor has been charged with kidnapping and rape. (Emmanuel Dunand, AFP/Getty Images) ... The two other men who were arrested after the women were discovered will not be charged in the case, authorities said in a news conference ... All rights reserved. ....(size: 5.9Kb)
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Starpulse
11 May 2013
Happy Birthday to.. "Glee" star Cory Monteith (1982). Rapper Ace Hood (1988). Australian singer Holly Valance (1983). Actor Jonathan Jackson (1982) ... 2009) ... The Animals singer Eric Burdon (1941) ... ....(size: 1.2Kb)
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Jamaica Observer
11 May 2013
Sunday’s performance will be dedicated to mothers. The show opened on December 26 as it has done every year since 1941 ... The laughter is unbridled ... ....(size: 0.8Kb)
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Philadelphia Daily News
11 May 2013
Gallery. Calvin G. Connett, 93, manager for meter firm. 1 of 2. View images. PHILLY.COM's TOP FIVE PICKS. . Complete coverage of Hurricane Sandy. Walter F. Naedele, Inquirer Staff Writer. Posted. Saturday, May 11, 2013, 3.01 AM. vin G ... Born on Staten Island, N.Y., Mr. Connett worked for Pitney Bowes after graduating from high school. He served in the Army from May 1941 to November 1945, mostly in a supply unit ... Mr ... Mr ... funeral there ... 08052 ... News ....(size: 3.2Kb)
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Springfield News-Sun
11 May 2013
Shelby Miller gave up a leadoff single then retired 27 in a row for his first career complete game, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 3-0 victory over the Colorado Rockies. Eric Young Jr ... 3, 2001, and it was the second one-hitter of the night in the major leagues ... Miller lowered his ERA to 1.39, which is the lowest for a Cardinals pitcher in his first eight starts since Howie Pollet had a 2.09 ERA in his first eight in 1941 ... Louis ... ... ....(size: 2.5Kb)
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U~T San Diego
11 May 2013
ST. LOUIS — Eric Young Jr. had the lone offensive highlight for the Colorado Rockies on Friday night - a single to lead off game. After that Cardinals rookie starter Shelby Miller retired 27 in a row for his first career complete game, leading the St ... He was impressive." ... Miller lowered his ERA to 1.39, which is the lowest for a Cardinals pitcher in his first eight starts since Howie Pollet had a 2.09 ERA in his first eight in 1941 ... ....(size: 2.9Kb)
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TSN Canada
11 May 2013
ST. LOUIS -- Shelby Miller gave up a single to start the game then nothing else. Not a walk or a hit batter. No one even reached on an error. Nothing. The St ... "I feel really good," Miller said. "It's definitely the best game I've thrown in my life ... Miller lowered his ERA to 1.39, which is the lowest for a Cardinals pitcher in his first eight starts since Howie Pollet had a 2.09 ERA in his first eight in 1941 ... Louis ... NOTES ... ....(size: 3.8Kb)
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Houston Chronicle
11 May 2013
ST. LOUIS - Shelby Miller gave up a leadoff single, then retired 27 in a row for his first career complete game, leading St. Louis to a 3-0 victory over Colorado on Friday. Eric Young Jr ... 3, 2001. Miller, who needed 113 pitches to complete his gem, lowered his ERA to 1.39, which is the lowest for a Cards pitcher in his first eight starts since Howie Pollet had a 2.09 ERA in his first eight in 1941 ... Louis ... Reds 4, Brewers 3 ... Rays 6, Padres 3....(size: 3.8Kb)
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
11 May 2013
Frederic Franklin, an exuberant, British-born ballet dancer who was an early inspiration for choreographers George Balanchine and Agnes de Mille and a frequent stage partner of the renowned ballerina Alexandra Danilova, died last Saturday at a New York City hospital. He was 98 ... Long after most dance careers end, Mr ... Mr ... Franklin "a gold mine." ... Mr ... Franklin appeared in the short films "The Gay Parisian" (1941) and "Spanish Fiesta" (1942) ... ....(size: 4.3Kb)
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San Francisco Chronicle
11 May 2013
Few people who pass the violet-painted house at 1712 Fillmore St. give it a second look. It's another Victorian in a city full of them. But this building is different. Perhaps no other structure in San Francisco has such an extraordinary story. If its walls could talk, they would relate virtually the entire history of the city ... Sometime before 1920, the Nippon Drug Co ... Hatsuto Yamada ... On Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor ... ....(size: 6.9Kb)
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Ohio
11 May 2013
Goodyear is the last one standing — when it comes to being a tire company headquartered in Akron. On Thursday, Goodyear reaffirmed its commitment to the city when it dedicated its new $160 million headquarters in East Akron. At one time, four major tire companies were based in town, earning the city the title of Rubber Capital of the World ... And then.. • 1898. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. was established by F.A ... • 1941 ... ....(size: 7.3Kb)
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CNN
11 May 2013
May 11, 2013 -- Updated 0057 GMT (0857 HKT). Editor's note. Gene Seymour is a film critic who has written about music, movies and culture for The New York Times, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly and The Washington Post ... ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. Seriously, now ... "Rosetta Stone. The Movie," anyone? Gene Seymour ... Though F ... News. 'Unfilmable' novels? No such thing, says Hollywood ... 0 ... May 8, 2013 -- Updated 1141 GMT (1941 HKT) ... Home ... ... ....(size: 12.1Kb)
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CNN
11 May 2013
May 10, 2013 -- Updated 1120 GMT (1920 HKT). Smoke rises from an explosion in a Syrian village near the Israeli border on Tuesday, May 7. Tensions in Syria first flared in March 2011 during the onset of the Arab Spring, eventually escalating into a civil war that still rages. This gallery contains the most compelling images taken since the start of the conflict ... 21 ... HIDE CAPTION ... <<. <. 1 ... May 8, 2013 -- Updated 1141 GMT (1941 HKT) ... ....(size: 31.3Kb)
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BBC News
10 May 2013
As a new BBC Wales series follows present-day Swansea market we look back on its colourful history, which spans centuries ... The new market was opened in September 1830 ... The heavy and sustained bombing by the Luftwaffe in February 1941 destroyed central Swansea, including the market ... The market stalls were reinstated in Oxford Street in October 1941 where it remained as an open-air market through the 1940s and 1950s ... Swansea market today....(size: 2.9Kb)
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Events[link]
Below, events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January[link]
- January 1 – Thailand Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram decrees January 1 as the official start of the Thai solar calendar new year (thus the previous year that began April 1 had only 9 months).
- January 3 – A decree in Germany outlaws the use of Blackletter Gothic typefaces in favour of Antiqua.
- January 4 – The short subject Elmer's Pet Rabbit is released, marking the second appearance of Bugs Bunny, and also the first to have his name on a title card.
- January 5 – WWII: At the Battle of Bardia in Libya, Australian and British troops defeat Italian forces, the first battle of the war in which an Australian Army formation takes part.
- January 6 – The keel of the USS Missouri is laid at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn.
- January 10 – Lend-Lease is introduced into the U.S. Congress.
- January 11 – The light cruiser HMS Southampton (83) is sunk off Malta.
- January 13 – All persons born in Puerto Rico since this day are declared U.S. citizens by birth, through U.S. federal law 8 U.S.C. § 1402.
- January 14 – WWII: Commerce raiding hilfskreuzer Pinguin captures the Norwegian whaling fleet near Bouvet Island, effectively ending Southern Ocean whaling for the duration of the war.[1]
- January 15 – John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry describe the workings of the Atanasoff–Berry Computer in print.
- January 19 – WWII: British troops attack Italian-held Eritrea.
- January 20 – Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes swears in U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt for his third term.
- January 22 – WWII: Battle of Tobruk: Australian and British forces capture Tobruk from the Italians.
- January 22 – In Sweden, Victor Hasselblad had the Victor Hasselblad AB Camera Company registered.
- January 23 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.
- January 27 – WWII – Attack on Pearl Harbor: Joseph C. Grew, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, reports to Washington a rumor overheard at a diplomatic reception concerning a planned surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
- January 30 – WWII – Australians capture Derna, Libya from the Italians.
February[link]
- February 3 – WWII: The Nazis forcibly restore Pierre Laval to office in occupied Vichy France.
- February 4 – WWII: The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops.
- February 5 – Air Training Corps: The Air Training Corps was formed.
- February 6 – WWII – Fall of Benghazi to the Western Desert Force. Lieutenant-General Erwin Rommel is appointed commander of Afrika Korps.
- February 8 – WWII – The U.S. House of Representatives passes the Lend-Lease Act (260–165).
- February 9 – Winston Churchill, in a worldwide broadcast, tells the United States to show its support by sending arms to the British: "Give us the tools, and we will finish the job."
- February 12
- WWII: Erwin Rommel arrives in Tripoli.
- Reserve Constable Albert Alexander, a patient at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford, becomes the first person treated with penicillin intravenously, by Howard Florey's team. He reacts positively but there is insufficient supply of the drug to reverse his terminal infection. A successful treatment is achieved during May.[2]
- February 13 – Aircrafts from HMS Formidable (67) attacks Massawa.
- February 14 – WWII – Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura begins his duties as Japanese Ambassador to the United States.
- February 19–February 22 – WWII: Three Nights' Blitz over Swansea, South Wales: Over these 3 nights of intensive bombing, which last a total of 13 hours and 48 minutes, Swansea's town centre is almost completely obliterated by the 896 high explosive bombs employed by the Luftwaffe. A total of 397 casualties and 230 deaths are reported.
- February 19-23 – the Battle of Sittang Bridge British forces retreat to the Sittang River.
- February 22 – HMS Shropshire (73) bombards Barawa, on the coast between Kismayo and Mogadishu.
- February 23 – Glenn T. Seaborg isolates and discovers plutonium.
- February 25 – The British submarine HMS Upright (N89) attacks an Italian covoy sinking the Italian cruiser Armando Diaz.
- February 27 – The New Zealand Division cruiser HMS Leander (1931) sinks Italian armed merchant raider Ramb I off the Maldives.
March[link]
- March 1
- WWII: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, thus joining the Axis powers.
- W47NV begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee, becoming the first FM radio station.
- Arthur L. Bristol becomes Rear Admiral for the U.S. Navy's Support Force, Atlantic Fleet.
- March 4 – WWII: Operation Claymore - British Commandos carry out a successful raid on the Lofoten Islands off the north coast of Norway.
- March 8 – WWII: The U.S. Senate passes the Lend-Lease Act (60–31).
- March 11 – WWII: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law.
- March 15 – Richard C. Hottelet is arrested by the Gestapo on "suspicion of espionage". He is eventually released in July as part of a prisoner exchange.
- March 16 – A group of U.S. warships arrive in Auckland, New Zealand on a goodwill visit. On March 20, they visit Sydney, Australia.
- March 17
- In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- British Minister of Labour Ernest Bevin calls for women to fill vital jobs.
- March 22 – Washington's Grand Coulee Dam begins to generate electricity.
- March 24 – WWII: Rommel launches his first offensive in Cyrenaica.
- March 25 – WWII: The Kingdom of Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers in Vienna.
- March 27 – WWII:
- Battle of Cape Matapan: Off the Peloponnesus coast in the Mediterranean, British naval forces defeat those of Italy, sinking 5 warships. Battle ends on March 29.
- An anti-Axis coup d'état in Yugoslavia forces Prince Paul into exile; 17-year-old King Peter II assumes power.
- Attack on Pearl Harbor: Japanese spy Takeo Yoshikawa arrives in Honolulu, Hawaii and begins to study the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
- March 30 – WWII:
- All German, Italian, and Danish ships anchored in United States waters are taken into "protective custody".
- A German Lorenz cipher machine operator sends a 4,000-character message twice, allowing British mathematician Bill Tutte to decipher the machine's coding mechanism.[3]
April[link]
- April 4 – WWII: Axis forces capture Benghazi.
- April 6 – WWII: Germany invades Yugoslavia and Greece.
- April 9 – The U.S. acquires full military defense rights in Greenland.
- April 10 – WWII: The U.S. destroyer USS Niblack, while picking up survivors from a sunken Dutch freighter, drops depth charges on a German U-Boat (the first "shot in anger" fired by America against Germany).[citation needed]
- April 12 – WWII: German troops enter Belgrade.
- April 13 – The Soviet Union and Japan sign a neutrality pact.
- April 15 – WWII: Axis forces reach Halfaya Pass on the Libyan-Egyptian frontier.
- April 17 – WWII: The Yugoslav Royal Army capitulates.
- April 18 – WWII: Prime Minister of Greece Alexandros Koryzis commits suicide as German troops approach Athens.
- April 19 – Bertolt Brecht's anti-war play Mother Courage and Her Children (German: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) receives its first theatrical production at the Schauspielhaus Zürich.
- April 21 – WWII: Greece capitulates. Commonwealth troops and some elements of the Greek Army withdraw to Crete.
- April 23 – The America First Committee holds its first mass rally in New York City, with Charles Lindbergh as keynote speaker.
- April 25 – Franklin D. Roosevelt, at his regular press conference, criticizes Charles Lindbergh by comparing him to the Copperheads of the Civil War period. In response, Lindbergh resigns his commission in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve on April 28.
- April 27 – WWII: German troops enter Athens.
May[link]
- May 1
- The breakfast cereal Cheerios is introduced as CheeriOats by General Mills.
- Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane premieres in New York City.
- The first Defense Bonds and Defense Savings Stamps go on sale in the United States, to help fund the greatly increased production of military equipment.
- May 2 – Anglo-Iraqi War: British combat operations against the rebel government of Rashid Ali in the Kingdom of Iraq begin.[4]
- May 5 – WWII: Emperor Haile Selassie enters Addis Ababa, which had been liberated from Italian forces; this date has been since commemorated as Liberation Day in Ethiopia.
- May 6 – At California's March Field, entertainer Bob Hope performs his first USO Show.
- May 8 – WWII: The German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin is sunk by HMS Cornwall (56) in the Indian Ocean.
- May 9 – WWII: The German submarine U-110 is captured by the British Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine, which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.
- May 10
- WWII: The British House of Commons is damaged by the Luftwaffe in an air raid.
- Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland, claiming to be on a peace mission.
- May 12 – Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
- May 15
- The first British jet aircraft, the Gloster E.28/39, is flown.
- Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak begins as the New York Yankee center fielder goes one for four against Chicago White Sox Pitcher Eddie Smith.
- May 19 – The Viet Minh is formed in Vietnam to overthrow the French Army in the nation.
- May 20 – WWII: The Battle of Crete begins as Germany launches an airborne invasion of Crete.
- May 21 – A U-boat sinks SS Robin Moor.
- May 24 – WWII: In the North Atlantic, the German battleship Bismarck sinks battlecruiser HMS Hood, killing all but 3 crewmen from a total of 1,418 aboard the pride of the Royal Navy.
- May 24 – The British submarine HMS Upholder (P37) torpedoes and sinks the Italian ocean liner SS Conte Rosso.
- May 26 – WWII: In the North Atlantic, Fairey Swordfish aircraft from the carrier HMS Ark Royal cripple the steering of Bismarck in an aerial torpedo attack.
- May 27
- WWII: President Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency."
- WWII:Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic, killing 2,300.
- The Swiss Socialist Federation is banned.[5]
- May 30 – WWII: Manolis Glezos and Apostolos Santas tear down the Nazi swastika on the Acropolis in Athens, and replace it with the Greek flag
- May 31 – Anglo-Iraqi War: British troops complete the re-occupation of the Kingdom of Iraq, returning Prince 'Abd al-Ilah to power as regent for Faisal II.
June[link]
- June 5
- Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
- A Serbian ammunition depot explodes at Smederevo on the outskirts of Belgrade, Serbia, killing 2,500, and injuring over 4,500.
- June 8 – WWII: British and Free French forces invade Syria.
- June 13 – TASS, the official Soviet news agency, denies reports of tension between Germany and the Soviet Union.
- June 14
- June 16 – All German and Italian consulates in the United States are ordered closed and their staffs to leave the country by July 10.
- June 16 – WWII: Royal Navy planes sink the Vichy French ship Chevalier Paul
- June 20
- United States Army Air Corps becomes the Army Air Forces.
- Walt Disney's live-action animated feature, The Reluctant Dragon, is released.
- June 22
- WWII: Italy and Romania declare war on the Soviet Union.
- WWII: Germany invades the Soviet Union under Operation Barbarossa.
- WWII: Winston Churchill promises all possible British assistance to the Soviet Union in a worldwide broadcast: "Any man or state who fights against Nazidom will have our aid. Any man or state who marches with Hitler is our foe."
- WWII: The First Sisak Partisan Brigade, the first anti-fascist armed unit in occupied Europe, is founded by partisans near Sisak, Croatia.
- June 23 – WWII: Hungary and Slovakia declare war on the Soviet Union.
- June 24 – Founding of RIA Novosti.
- June 25 – WWII: Finland attacks the Soviet Union to seek the opportunity of revenge in the Continuation War.
- June 28 – WWII: Albania declares war on the Soviet Union.
July[link]
- July – The British Army's Special Air Service is formed.
- July 2 – WWII: Empire of Japan calls up 1 million men for military service.
- July 3 – WWII: Joseph Stalin, in his first address since the German invasion, calls upon the Soviet people to carry out a "scorched earth" policy of resistance to the bitter end.
- July 4 – The Mass murder of Polish scientists and writers is committed by German troops in the captured Polish city of Lwów.
- July 5 – WWII: German troops reach the Dnieper River.
- July 5–July 31: War is fought between Peru and Ecuador.
- July 7
- July 13 – WWII: Montenegro starts the second popular uprising in Europe against the Axis Powers, the first being the so-called February strike against deportation of Jews in Amsterdam and surroundings on February 25, 1941.
- July 14 – WWII: Vichy France signs armistice terms, ending all fighting in Syria and Lebanon.
- July 17 – Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak ends.
- July 19
- WWII: A BBC broadcast by "Colonel Britton" calls on the people of occupied Europe to resist the Nazis under the slogan "V for Victory".
- The first episode The Midnight Snack in which Tom and Jerry are officially named, more than a year after their first production Puss Gets the Boot
- July 23 – WWII Italian planes damege the destroyer HMS Fearless (H67) which has to be sunk by the British.
- July 25 – The Postal Code system is introduced in Germany.
- July 26
- WWII: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
- WWII: General Douglas MacArthur is named commander of all U.S. forces in the Philippines; the Philippines Army is ordered nationalized by President Roosevelt.
- July 31 – WWII – Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring orders S.S. General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question."
August[link]
- August – Political Warfare Executive is formed in the United Kingdom.
- August 1 – The first Jeep is produced.[citation needed]
- August 6 – Six-year-old Elaine Esposito goes to an appendix operation in Florida and lapses into a coma. She dies in 1978, still in a coma.
- August 7 – The British destroyer HMS Severn (N57)sinks the Italien Marconi class submarine.
- August 9 – Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meet at Argentia, Newfoundland and Labrador. The Atlantic Charter is created as a result.
- August 16 – The HMS Mercury, Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School open at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England.
- August 18 – Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of the mentally ill and handicapped due to protests. However, graduates of the T-4 Euthanasia Program are then transferred to concentration camps, where they continue in their trade.
- August 22 – WWII – France: The German Occupation Authority announces that anyone found either working for or aiding the Free French will be sentenced to death.
- August 24 – WWII: A Luftwaffe bomb hits an Estonian steamer with 3,500 Soviet-mobilized Estonian men on board, killing 598 of them.
- August 25 – WWII: Operation Countenance begins with United Kingdom and Soviet forces invading Iran.
- August 27 – WWII – Pierre Laval is shot in an assassination attempt at Versailles, France.
- August 28 – WWII: The Soviets announce the destruction of the massive Dnieper River dam at Zaporozhye, to prevent its capture by the Germans.
- August 31 – The Great Gildersleeve debuts on NBC Radio.
September[link]
- September 6 – Holocaust: The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word "Jew" inscribed, is extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas.
- September 8 – WWII – The Siege of Leningrad begins: German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad. Stalin orders the Volga Germans deported to Siberia.
- September 11 – WWII: Charles Lindbergh, at an America First Committee rally in Des Moines, Iowa, accuses "the British, the Jewish, and the Roosevelt administration" of leading the United States toward war. Widespread condemnation of Lindbergh follows.
- September 12 – WWII: The first snowfall is reported on the Russian front.
- September 14 – The State of Vermont declares war on Germany.
- September 15 – The Estonian Self-Administration, headed by Hjalmar Mäe, is appointed by the German military administration.
- September 16 – Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran is forced to resign in favor of his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, under pressure from the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union.
- September 22 The town of Reshetylivka in the Soviet Union is occupied by German forces.
- September 27 – The first Liberty Ship, the SS Patrick Henry, is launched at Baltimore, Maryland.
- September 29 – WWII: The Moscow Conference begins; U.S. representative Averill Harriman and British representative Lord Beaverbrook meet with Soviet foreign minister Molotov to arrange urgent assistance for Russia.
- September 29–September 30 – Holocaust: Babi Yar massacre – German troops, assisted by Ukrainian police and local collaborators, killed 33,771 Jews of Kiev, Ukraine.
October[link]
- October 1
- Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Konzentrationslager Lublin (commonly known as "Majdanek") opens in occupied Poland on the outskirts of the town Lublin. Between October 1941 and July 1944 at least 200,000 people were killed in the camp.
- New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy becomes the Royal New Zealand Navy
- October 2 – WWII: Operation Typhoon begins as Germany launches an all-out offensive against Moscow.
- October 7 – John Curtin becomes the 14th Prime Minister of Australia.
- October 8 – WWII: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
- October 11–October 12 – Fire destroys a Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant in Fall River, Massachusetts, consuming 15,850 tons of rubber and causing a setback to the United States war effort.[6]Apollonia,
- October 15 – the sumbmarine HMS Torbay (N79) bombards the Libyan port of Apollonia.
- Mid-October – First production P-38E Lightning fighter produced by Lockheed.
- October 16 – WWII: The Soviet Union government moves to Kuibyshev (modern Samara), but Joseph Stalin remains in Moscow.
- October 17 – WWII: The destroyer USS Kearny is torpedoed and damaged near Iceland, killing 11 sailors (the first American military casualties of the war).
- October 18 – General Hideki Tojo becomes the 40th Prime Minister of Japan.
- October 21 – WWII: The Germans rampage in Yugoslavia, killing thousands of civilians.
- October 23 – Walt Disney's animated film Dumbo is released.
- October 24 – Franz von Werra disappears during a flight over the North Sea.
- October 30 – WWII: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves US$1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
- October 31
- Last day of carving on Mount Rushmore.
- WWII: The destroyer USS Reuben James is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors.
November[link]
- November 6 – WWII: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule (the first time was earlier that year on July 2). He states that even though 350,000 troops have been killed in German attacks so far, that the Germans have lost 4.5 million soldiers (a gross exaggeration) and that Soviet victory is near.
- November 7 – WWII: The Soviet hospital Ship Armenia is sunk by German planes while evacuating refugees, wounded military and the staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people die in the sinking.
- November 10 – In a speech at the Mansion House in London, Winston Churchill promises, "should the United States become involved in war with Japan, the British declaration will follow within the hour."
- November 12 – WWII: As Battle of Moscow begins, temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 °C, and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
- November 14 – WWII: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks after being torpedoed by U-81.
- November 17 – WWII – Attack on Pearl Harbor: Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan, cables to Washington a warning that Japan may strike suddenly and unexpectedly.
- November 18 – WWII: Operation Crusader in North Africa begins
- November 19 – WWII: Both commerce raiding hilfskreuzer Kormoran and Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney sink following a battle off the coast of Western Australia. There are no survivors from the 645 Australian sailors aboard Sydney.[7]
- November 21 – The radio program King Biscuit Time is broadcast for the first time (it later becomes the longest running daily radio broadcast in history and the most famous live blues radio program).
- November 22 – WWII: HMS Devonshire sinks commerce raiding hilfskreuzer Atlantis, ending the longest warship cruise of the war. (622 days without in-port replenishment or repair)[8]
- November 26 – WWII – Attack on Pearl Harbor: A fleet of 6 aircraft carriers commanded by Japanese Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo leaves Hitokapu Bay for Pearl Harbor under strict radio silence
- November 27
- A group of young men stop traffic on U.S. Highway 99 south of Yreka, California, handing out fliers proclaiming the establishment of the State of Jefferson.
- WWII: Germans reach their closest approach to Moscow. They are subsequently frozen by cold weather and attacks by the Soviets.
December[link]
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- December 1 – WWII:
- Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol under the authority of the United States Army Air Force.
- A state of emergency is declared in Malaya and the Straits Settlements.
- December 2 – WWII – Attack on Pearl Harbor: The code message "Climb Mount Niitaka" is transmitted to the Japanese task force, indicating that negotiations have broken down and that the attack is to be carried out according to plan.
- December 4 – The State of Jefferson is declared in Yreka, California, with judge John Childs as a governor.
- December 6 – WWII:
- Soviet counterattacks begin against German troops encircling Moscow. The Wehrmacht is subsequently pushed back over 200 miles.
- The United Kingdom declares war on Finland.
- December 6 – WWII: HMS Perseus (N36)is sunk by a mine.
- December 7 (December 8, Japan standard time) – WWII:
- Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the United States into World War II. The attack is announced on radio stations in the US at about 2:26 p.m. EST (19.26 GMT).
- The Empire of Japan launches invasions in Hong Kong, Malaya, Manila, Singapore and the Philippines.
- Canada declares war on Japan.
- Tobruk's garrison is relieved.
- December 8
- WWII: The United States, United Kingdom, China and The Netherlands officially declare war on the Empire of Japan.
- President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Infamy" Address to a Joint Session of Congress at 12:30 p.m. EST (17.30 GMT) and transmitted live over all four major national networks attracts the largest audience ever for an American radio broadcast, over 81% of homes.[9]
- Holocaust: the Nazi German extermination camp Chelmno opens in occupied Poland near a small village called Chełmno nad Nerem. Between December 1941-April 1943 and June 1944-January 1945 at least 153,000 people are killed in the camp.
- December 10 – WWII: The British battleship HMS Prince of Wales and battlecruiser HMS Repulse are sunk by Japanese aircraft in the South China Sea north of Singapore.
- December 11 – WWII: Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. The U.S. responds in kind.
- December 12 – WWII:
- Hungary and Romania declare war on the United States.
- British India declares war on the Empire of Japan.
- The United States seizes the French ship SS Normandie.
- The Kimura Detachment of the Japanese Imperial forces is occupied in Legaspi, Albay in Eastern Philippines.
- December 13 – Sweden's low temperature record of -53°C is set in a village within the Vilhelmina Municipality.
- December 19 – WWII: Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the German Army.
- December 23 – WWII: A second Japanese landing attempt on Wake Island is successful, and the American garrison surrenders after a full night and morning of fighting.
- December 24 – WWII:
- British forces capture Benghazi.
- Dutch submarine HNLMS K XVI is the first Allied ship to sink a Japanese warship, sinking the destroyer Sagiri near Sarawak; K XVI is herself torpedoed the following day by Japanese submarine I 66.
- December 25 – WWII: The British and Canadians are defeated by the Japanese at Hong Kong.
- December 26 – WWII: Winston Churchill becomes the first British Prime Minister to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress.
- December 27 – WWII: British Commandos raid the Norwegian port of Vaagso, causing Hitler to reinforce the garrison and defenses, drawing vital troops away from other areas.
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- The Valley of Geysers is discovered in Russia.
- The Indochina Communist party, led by Ho Chi Minh, combines with the Nationalist party to form the Viet Minh.
- Classic Comics series launched in the United States with a version of The Three Musketeers.
Births[link]
January[link]
- January 1 – Dardo Cabo, Argentine journalist and activist (d. 1977)
- January 3 – Van Dyke Parks, American composer, producer, and musician
- January 4
- John Bennett Perry, American actor
- Maureen Reagan, American actress (d. 2001)
- January 5
- Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film maker
- Kevin Keelan, English footballer
- January 7
- Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (d. 2004)
- Manfred Schellscheidt, German American soccer coach
- John E. Walker, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- January 8 – Graham Chapman, English comedian (d. 1989)
- January 9 – Joan Baez, American singer and activist
- January 11
- Dave Edwards, American musician (d. 2000)
- Jimmy Velvit, American singer/songwriter
- January 12 – Long John Baldry, British singer (d. 2005)
- January 14
- Faye Dunaway, American actress
- Milan Kučan, Slovenian politician and statesman
- David Johnston, retired Australian newsreader
- January 15 – Captain Beefheart, American singer (d. 2010)
- January 18 – David Ruffin, American singer (The Temptations) (d. 1991)
- January 19 – Pat Patterson, Canadian professional wrestler
- January 20 – Allan Young (d. 2009)
- January 21
- Plácido Domingo, Spanish-born tenor
- Richie Havens, American musician
- January 24
- Neil Diamond, American singer and songwriter
- Aaron Neville, American singer
- January 25 – Theo Berger, German criminal
- January 26
- Scott Glenn, American actor
- Henry Jaglom, English film director
- January 27 – Beatrice Tinsley, English astronomer (d. 1981)
- January 30
- Dick Cheney, former Vice President of the United States
- Tineke Lagerberg, Dutch swimmer
- January 31
- Dick Gephardt, American politician
- Jessica Walter, American actress
February[link]
- February 1 – Jerry Spinelli, American children's author
- February 3 – Dory Funk, Jr., American professional wrestler
- February 5
- David Selby, American actor
- Kaspar Villiger, Swiss Federal Councilor
- Stephen J. Cannell, American director and producer (d. 2010)
- February 6 – Howard Phillips, American politician
- February 7 – Peter Foxhall, Australian evangelist
- February 8 – Nick Nolte, American actor
- February 10 – Michael Apted, English film director
- February 12 – Naomi Uemura, Japanese adventurer (d. 1984)
- February 13
- Sigmar Polke, German painter
- David Jeremiah, American televangelist
- February 19 – David Gross, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- February 20 – Buffy Sainte-Marie, American singer
- February 26 – Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (d. 1972)
- February 27 – Paddy Ashdown, British politician
- February 28 – Suzanne Mubarak, Egyptian first lady
March[link]
- March 1 – Joo Hyun, South Korean actor
- March 4
- Adrian Lyne, English film director
- John Aprea, American actor
- March 5 – Nona Gaprindashvili, Georgian chess player
- March 6 – Willie Stargell, American baseball player (d. 2001)
- March 13 – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer of prose (d. 2008)
- March 14 – Wolfgang Petersen, German film director
- March 15 – Mike Love, American musician (The Beach Boys)
- March 16
- Robert Guéï, military ruler of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 2002)
- Chuck Woolery, American game show host
- March 17 – Paul Kantner, American rock guitarist (Jefferson Airplane)
- March 18 – Wilson Pickett, American singer (d. 2006)
- March 20 – Kenji Kimihara, Japanese long-distance runner
- March 23 – Jim Trelease, American educator and author
- March 26 – Richard Dawkins, British scientist
- March 28 – Jim Turner, American football player
- March 29 – Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- March 30 – Wasim Sajjad, President of Pakistan
April[link]
- April 2 – Dr. Demento (Barret Eugene Hansen), American radio disc jockey and novelty music collector
- April 3
- Eric Braeden, German-born American actor
- Philippe Wynne, American musician (d. 1984)
- April 8 – Peggy Lennon, American singer (The Lennon Sisters)
- April 9 – Kay Adams, American country singer
- April 11 – Shirley Stelfox, English actress
- April 12 – Bobby Moore, English football player and World Cup winning captain (d. 1993)
- April 13 – Michael Stuart Brown, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- April 14
- Julie Christie, British actress
- Pete Rose, American baseball player
- April 20 – Ryan O'Neal, American actor
- April 23
- Paavo Lipponen, Prime Minister of Finland
- Ed Stewart, English disc jockey
- April 24 – John Williams, Australian guitarist
- April 27 – Lee Roy Jordan, American football player
- April 28
- Ann-Margret, Swedish-born American actress, singer and dancer
- K. Barry Sharpless, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- Iryna Zhylenko, Ukrainian poet
May[link]
- May 5 – Alexander Ragulin, Russian hockey player (d. 2004)
- May 6 – Ivica Osim, Bosnian football player and manager
- May 11 – Eric Burdon, English singer (The Animals)
- May 13
- Senta Berger, Austrian actress
- Ritchie Valens, American singer (d. 1959)
- May 19
- Bobby Burgess, American dancer and singer
- Nora Ephron, American film, producer, director, and screenwriter
- May 20 – Goh Chok Tong, Prime Minister of Singapore
- May 21 – Bobby Cox, American baseball manager
- May 22 – Menzies Campbell, British politician
- May 24 – Bob Dylan, American poet and musician
- May 26 – John Kaufman, English sculptor
- May 31 – Louis J. Ignarro, American pharmacologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
June[link]
- June 1 – Alexander Zakharov, Soviet and Russian deputy scientist and astronomer, IKI
- June 2
- Charlie Watts, English Drummer, (The Rolling Stones)
- Stacy Keach, American actor
- June 4 – Erkin Koray, Turkish musician
- June 5
- Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist
- Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2004)
- June 6 – Neal Adams, American comic book artist
- June 8
- Robert Bradford, Irish footballer and politician (d. 1981)
- Fuzzy Haskins, American musician (P-Funk)
- June 9 – Jon Lord, organist of Deep Purple, the "Lord of the Hammond organ"
- June 10
- Mickey Jones, American actor and musician
- Valeri Zolotukhin, Soviet/Russian actor
- James A. Paul, American writer and non-profit executive
- June 12 – Marv Albert, American sports announcer
- June 14 – Roy Harper, English guitarist
- June 15 – Harry Nilsson, American musician (d. 1994)
- June 19
- Conchita Carpio-Morales, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
- Vaclav Klaus. President of the Czech Republic
- June 21 – Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor and comedian
- June 22
- Ed Bradley, American journalist (60 Minutes) (d. 2006)
- Michael Lerner, American actor
- Terttu Savola, Finnish politician
- June 24
- Bill Reardon, American politician and educator
- Charles Whitman, American mass murderer (d. 1966)
- June 27 – Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (d. 1996)
- June 28 – Joseph Goguen, American computer scientist (d. 2006)
July[link]
- July 1
- Alfred G. Gilman, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- Myron Scholes, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- July 6 – Harold Leighton Weller, American conductor
- July 7 – Bill Oddie, English comedian and ornithologist
- July 10 – Jackie Lane, English actress
- July 11 – Tommy Vance, English disc jockey (d. 2005)
- July 12
- Benny Parsons, American race car driver (d. 2007)
- John Lahr, "New Yorker" senior drama critic
- July 14
- Maulana Karenga, American author and activist
- Andreas Khol, Austrian politician
- July 16 – Hans Wiegel, Dutch politician
- July 19
- Vikki Carr, American singer
- Neelie Kroes, Dutch politician
- July 27 – Bill Baxley, Alabama politician
- July 28 – Riccardo Muti, Italian conductor
- July 29
- Jennifer Dunn, American politician (d. 2007)
- David Warner, English actor
- July 30 – Paul Anka, Canadian-American singer and songwriter
- July 31 – Amarsinh Chaudhary, Indian politician
August[link]
- August 3 – Martha Stewart, American television and magazine personality
- August 2 – Ede Staal, Dutch singer-songwriter
- August 6 – Lyle Berman, American poker player
- August 8 – George Tiller, American physician (d. 2009)
- August 9 – Shirlee Busbee, American novelist.
- August 12 – Deborah Walley, American actress (The Mothers-in-Law) (d. 2001)
- August 14
- Connie Smith, American singer
- David Crosby, American Musician (The Byrds)
- August 16
- David Dickinson, British antiques expert and television presenter
- Théoneste Bagosora, former Rwandan army officer and alleged planner of the Rwandan Genocide
- August 17 – Ibrahim Babangida, former President of Nigeria
- August 20 – Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia (d. 2006)
- August 22 – Bill Parcells, American football coach
- August 28 – Joseph Shabalala, South African musician (Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
September[link]
- September 2
- David Bale, South African–born activist (d. 2003)
- Jyrki Otila, Finnish quiz show judge and Member of the European Parliament (d. 2003)
- John Thompson, American basketball coach
- September 3 – Sergei Dovlatov, Russian short-story writer and novelist (d. 1990)
- September 4 – Sushilkumar Shinde, Indian politician
- September 9
- Otis Redding, American musician (d. 1967)
- Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (d. 2011)
- September 10
- Christopher Hogwood, English conductor and harpsichordist
- Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese computer game producer (d. 1997)
- September 13
- Tadao Ando, Japanese architect
- Ahmet Necdet Sezer, former President of Turkey
- September 14 – Alberto Naranjo, Venezuelan musician
- September 15
- George Saimes, American football player
- Mirosław Hermaszewski, first Polish cosmonaut in space
- September 17 – Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman from California (d. 2005)
- September 19 – Cass Elliott, American singer (d. 1974)
- September 20 – Dale Chihuly, American glass sculptor
- September 24
- Guy Hovis, American singer
- Linda McCartney, American activist, musician and photographer (d. 1998)
- September 26 – Martine Beswick, British actress and model
- September 27 – Gay Kayler Ashcroft, Australian country music singer
- September 28 – Sam Zell, American billionaire investor and publisher
October[link]
- October 2 – Zareh Baronian, Archimandrite doctor, theologian of the Armenian Church, Bucarest
- October 4
- Elizabeth Eckford, American activist
- Anne Rice, American writer
- Roy Blount, Jr., American writer and comedian
- October 5 – Eduardo Duhalde, President of Argentina
- October 8 – Jesse Jackson, American clergyman and civil rights activist
- October 9 – Trent Lott, former United States Senate Minority Leader and United States Senate Majority Leader
- October 10 – Peter Coyote, American actor
- October 13 – Paul Simon, American singer and composer
- October 16 – Tim McCarver, American baseball commentator
- October 20 – Anneke Wills, British actress
- October 23 – Mel Winkler, American actor
- October 25
- Helen Reddy, Australian singer and actress
- Anne Tyler, American novelist
- October 27 – Gerd Brantenberg, Norwegian feminist author and gay rights activist
- October 28
- John Hallam, Irish actor
- Hank Marvin, British guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Shadows)
- October 30 – Theodor W. Hänsch, German physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics
- October 31 – Sally Kirkland, American actress
November[link]
- November 1
- Nigel Dempster, British journalist, author, broadcaster and diarist (d. 2007)
- Robert Foxworth, American actor
- November 2 – Bruce Welch, British guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Shadows)
- November 5 – Art Garfunkel, American singer
- November 6 – Doug Sahm, American musician (d. 1999)
- November 17 – Tova Traesnaes, American cosmetician and fifth wife of Ernest Borgnine
- November 18 – David Hemmings, English actor (d. 2003)
- November 21 – Juliet Mills, English actress
- November 23 – Derek Mahon, Irish poet
- November 24 – Pete Best, First Beatles Drummer
- November 25
- Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Sufi, author, poet and a growing following consider him to be the Mehdi, Messiah & Kalki Avatar
- Ralph Haben, American politician, former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
- November 26 – G. Alan Marlatt, American psychologist
- November 27 – Eddie Rabbitt, American country musician (d. 1998)
- November 29 – Bill Freehan, American baseball player
December[link]
- December 6 –Vittorio Mezzogiorno,Italian actor (d. 1994}
- December 9 – Beau Bridges, American actor
- December 10 – Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (d. 1985)
- December 11 – J. Frank Wilson, American singer (J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers) (d. 1991)
- December 13 – John Davidson, American singer and actor
- December 18 – Prince William of Gloucester
- December 19 – Lee Myung Bak, 17th president of South Korea
- December 21 – Lo Hoi Pang, Hong Kong actor
- December 23
- Ron Bushy, American rock musician (Iron Butterfly)
- Tim Hardin, American musician (d. 1980)
- December 24 – John Levene, English actor
- December 30 – Mel Renfro, American football player
- December 31 – Alex Ferguson, English football manager (Manchester United)
Deaths[link]
January–February[link]
- January 4 – Henri Bergson, French philosopher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (b. 1859)
- January 5 – Amy Johnson, English aviator (b. 1903)
- January 8 – Lord Robert Baden-Powell, English soldier and founder of the Boy Scouts (b. 1857)
- January 10
- Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879)
- Sir John Lavery, Irish artist (b. 1856)
- Joe Penner, American comedian and actor (b. 1904)
- January 13 – James Joyce, Irish writer (b. 1882)
- February 2 – Harris Laning, American admiral (b. 1873)
- February 6 – Banjo Paterson, Australian poet & journalist (b. 1864)
- February 9 – Aaron S. Watkins, American temperance movement leader (b. 1863)
- February 11 – Rudolf Hilferding, German economist and Minister of Finance (b. 1877)
- February 21 – Frederick Banting, Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1891)
- February 24 – Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, German submariner (b. 1886)
- February 27 – William D. Byron, U.S. Congressman (b. 1895)
- February 28 – King Alfonso XIII of Spain (b. 1886)
March–July[link]
- March 5 – Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, Russian royal (b. 1891)
- March 6 – Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor (Mount Rushmore) (b. 1867)
- March 8 – Sherwood Anderson, American author (b. 1876)
- March 15 – Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864)
- March 28
- Virginia Woolf, English writer (b. 1882)
- Kavasji Jamshedji Petigara, Indian police commissioner (b. 1887)
- April 5 – Sir Nigel Gresley, English steam locomotive engineer (Flying Scotsman and Mallard) (b. 1876)
- April 13 – Annie Jump Cannon, American astronomer (b. 1863)
- April 16 – Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, Bt, GCB, GBE, FBA, British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker (b.1880)
- April 24 – Karin Boye, Swedish poetess (suicide) (b. 1900)
- April 30 – Edwin S. Porter, American film director (b. 1870)
- May 1 – Jenny Dolly, American singer (b. 1892)
- May 11 – Peggy Shannon, American actress (b. 1910)
- May 12 – Ruth Stonehouse, American actress (b. 1892)
- May 16 – Minnie Vautrin, American missionary and heroine of the Nanjing Massacre (b. 1887)
- May 24 – Lancelot Holland, British admiral (b. 1887)
- May 27 – Günther Lütjens, German admiral (b. 1889)
- May 30 – Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (b. 1893)
- June 1 – Hugh Walpole, British writer (b. 1884)
- June 2 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
- June 4 – Wilhelm II, last Emperor of Germany (b. 1859)
- June 6 – Louis Chevrolet, Swiss-born automobile builder and race car driver (b. 1878)
- June 21 – Elliott Dexter, American actor (b. 1870)
- June 29 – Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and third Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1860)
- July 3 – Friedrich Akel, Estonian diplomat and politician (b. 1871)
- July 4 – Antoni Łomnicki, Polish mathematician (b. 1881)
- July 10 – Jelly Roll Morton, African-American jazz musician and composer (b. 1890)
- July 11 – Arthur Evans, English archaeologist (b. 1851)
- July 15 – Walter Ruttmann, German director (b. 1887)
- July 20 – Lew Fields, American vaudeville performer (b. 1867)
- July 25 – Allan Forrest, American actor (b. 1885)
- July 26 – Henri Lebesgue, French mathematician (b. 1875)
- July 29 – James Stephenson, British actor (b. 1889)
August–December[link]
- August 7 – Rabindranath Tagore, Indian author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1861)
- August 13 – James Stuart Blackton, American film producer (b. 1875)
- August 14 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854)
- August 30 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
- August 31 – Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet (suicide) (b. 1892)
- September 1 – Karl Parts, Estonia military commander (b. 1886)
- September 12 – Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1869)
- September 18 – Fred Karno, British music hall comedian (b. 1866)
- October 5 – Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1856)
- October 8
- Gus Kahn, German songwriter (b. 1886)
- Valentine O'Hara, Irish author and authority on Russia and the Baltic States (b. 1875)
- October 9 – Helen Morgan, American singer and actress (b. 1900)
- October 26
- Arkady Gaidar, Russian writer (b. 1904)
- Victor Schertzinger, American composer and director (b. 1888)
- October 29 – Harvey Hendrick, American baseball player (b. 1897)
- November 13
- Daniel J. Callaghan, American admiral and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1890)
- Norman Scott, American admiral and Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1889)
- November 16 – Miina Härma, Estonian composer (b. 1864)
- November 17 – Ernst Udet, German World War I fighter ace and Nazi Luftwaffe official (b. 1896)
- November 18
- Émile Nelligan, Canadian poet (b. 1879)
- Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
- Chris Watson, 3rd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1867)
- November 21 – Henrietta Vinton Davis, American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator, public speaker (b. 1860)
- November 22 – Werner Moelders, German fighter pilot (b. 1913)
- November 26 – Niels Hansen Jacobsen, Danish sculptor and ceramist (b. 1861)
- November 30 – Esmond Romilly, British socialist (b. 1918)
- December 3 – Christian Sinding, Norwegian composer (b. 1856)
- December 7 – Isaac Campbell Kidd, American admiral (died in the attack on Pearl Harbor) (b. 1884)
- December 9 – Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli, Austrian general and German field marshal (b. 1856)
- December 12 – César Basa, Filipino pilot (b. 1915)
- December 25 – Blanche Bates, stage actress (b. 1873)
- December 30 – El Lissitzky, Russian artist and architect (b. 1890)
Nobel Prizes[link]
- Physics – not awarded
- Chemistry – not awarded
- Medicine – not awarded
- Literature – not awarded
- Peace – not awarded
References[link]
- ^ Muggenthaler, August Karl (1977). German Raiders of WWII. Prentice-Hall. pp. 140–143. ISBN 0-13-354027-8.
- ^ Robertson, Patrick (1974). The Shell Book of Firsts. London: Ebury Press. pp. 124–5.
- ^ BBC[dead link]
- ^ Playfair, Major-General I. S. O.; with Flynn R. N., Captain F. C.; Molony, Brigadier C. J. C. & Toomer, Air Vice-Marshal S. E. (2004) [1st. pub. HMSO 1956]. Butler, J. R. M. ed. The Mediterranean and Middle East, Volume II The Germans come to the help of their Ally (1941). History of the Second World War, United Kingdom Military Series. Naval & Military Press. pp. 182-3. ISBN 1-84574-066-1.
- ^ Lang, Karl (1988). Solidarité, débats, mouvement: cent ans de Parti socialiste suisse, 1888-1988. Lausanne: Editions d'en bas. pp. 270-2. http://books.google.com/books?id=cMBEFai6EQkC&pg=PA268.
- ^ "No Sabotage Found in Firestone Blaze by FBI Men Making Probe." Fall River, Herald News, October 14, 1941, p.1
- ^ Muggenthaler, August Karl (1977). German Raiders of WWII. Prentice-Hall. pp. 186–191. ISBN 0-13-354027-8.
- ^ Muggenthaler, August Karl (1977). German Raiders of WWII. Prentice-Hall. p. 114. ISBN 0-13-354027-8.
- ^ Brown, Robert J. (1998). Manipulating the Ether: the Power of Broadcast Radio in Thirties America. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co. pp. 117–120. ISBN 0-7864-2066-9.
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This article is about the phrase. For other uses, see The Man (disambiguation).
"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise.
The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either openly or via sabotage.[1]
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History[link]
The earliest recorded use[citation needed] of the term "the Man" in the American sense dates back to a letter written by a young Alexander Hamilton in September 1772, when he was 15. In a letter to his father James Hamilton, published in the Royal Dutch-American Gazette, he described the response of the Dutch governor of St. Croix to a hurricane that raked that island on August 31, 1772. "Our General has issued several very salutary and humane regulations and both in his publick and private measures, has shewn himself the Man." [2][dubious – discuss] In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.
It was also used as a term for a drug dealer in the 1950s and 1960s and can be seen in such media as Curtis Mayfield's "No Thing On Me", William Burroughs's novel Naked Lunch, and in the Velvet Underground song "I'm Waiting for the Man", in which Lou Reed sings about going to Uptown Manhattan, specifically Lexington Avenue and 125th Street, to buy heroin.
The use of this term was expanded to counterculture groups and their battles against authority, such as the Yippies, which, according to a May 19, 1969 article in U.S. News and World Report, had the "avowed aim ... to destroy 'The Man', their term for the present system of government". The term eventually found its way into humorous usage, such as in a December 1979 motorcycle ad from the magazine Easyriders which featured the tagline, "California residents: Add 6% sales tax for The Man."
In present day, the phrase has been popularized in commercials and cinema, featuring particularly prominently as a recurring motif in the 2003 film School of Rock.[3][4][5][6]
Use as praise[link]
The term has also been used as an approbation or form of praise. This may refer to the recipient's status as the leader or authority within a particular context, or it might be assumed to be a shortened form of a phrase like "He is the man (who is in charge)." One example of this usage dates to 1879 when Otto von Bismarck commented, referring to Benjamin Disraeli's pre-eminent position at the Congress of Berlin, "The old Jew, he is the man."[7][dubious – discuss]
In more modern usage, it can be a superlative compliment ("you da man!") indicating that the subject is currently standing out amongst his peers even though they have no special designation or rank, such as a basketball player who is performing better than the other players on the court. It can also be used as a genuine compliment with an implied, slightly exaggerated or sarcastic tone, usually indicating that the person has indeed impressed the speaker but by doing something relatively trivial.
See also[link]
- Absentee landlord
- Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
- New World Order (conspiracy theory)
- Ruling class
- The Establishment
- Power elite
- Corrections officer
- YTMND
Notes[link]
- ^ "stick it to the man". AllWords.com (English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search). http://www.allwords.com/word-stick+it+to+the+man.html.
- ^ Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Volume 1, Page 38, Columbia University Press, 1961
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332379/quotes
- ^ http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/School_of_Rock
- ^ http://www.moviefanatic.com/quotes/movies/school-of-rock/
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37oJqWp4rJM
- ^ Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy, Simon & Schuster, 1994, p155.
References[link]
- Lighter, J.E. (Ed.). (1997). Random House Dictionary of American Slang. New York: Random House.
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For other people named John Williams, see John Williams (disambiguation).
| John Williams | |
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 Williams at the Avery Fisher Hall in 2007 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | John Towner Williams |
| Born | (1932-02-08) February 8, 1932 (age 80) |
| Origin | Flushing, Queens, New York, United States of America |
| Genres | Film score, Contemporary classical music, Jazz |
| Occupations | Composer, pianist, conductor |
| Years active | 1952–present |
John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932) is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. In a career spanning almost six decades, he has composed some of the most recognizable film scores in the history of motion pictures, including the Star Wars saga, Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Hook, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, War Horse, Home Alone and the first three Harry Potter films. He has had a long association with director Steven Spielberg, composing the music for all but two (Duel and The Color Purple) of Spielberg's major feature films.
Other notable works by Williams include theme music for four Olympic Games, NBC Sunday Night Football, the NBC Nightly News, the rededication of the Statue of Liberty, and the television series Lost in Space. Williams has also composed numerous classical concerti, and he served as the principal conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra from 1980 to 1993; he is now the orchestra's conductor laureate.
Williams has won five Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, seven BAFTA Awards, and 21 Grammy Awards. With 47 Academy Award nominations, Williams is the second most nominated person, after Walt Disney.[1] John Williams was honored with the prestigious Richard Kirk award at the 1999 BMI Film and TV Awards. The award is given annually to a composer who has made significant contributions to film and television music.[2] Williams was inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame in 2000, and was a recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors in 2004.
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Early life and family[link]
John Williams was born on February 8, 1932 on Long Island, New York, the son of Esther (née Towner) and Johnny Williams.[3] His father was a jazz percussionist who played with the Raymond Scott Quintet.
In 1948, the Williams family moved to Los Angeles where John attended North Hollywood High School graduating in 1950. He later attended the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and studied privately with the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.[4] In 1952, Williams was drafted into the U.S. Air Force, where he conducted and arranged music for the Air Force Band as part of his assignments.
After his Air Force service ended in 1955, Williams moved to New York City and entered the Juilliard School, where he studied piano with Rosina Lhévinne.[4] During this time, Williams worked as a jazz pianist in New York's many clubs and eventually studios, most notably for composer Henry Mancini. His fellow session musicians included Rolly Bundock on bass, Jack Sperling on drums, and Bob Bain on guitar—the same lineup featured on the Mr. Lucky television series. Williams was known as "Little Johnny Love" Williams during the early 1960s, and he served as music arranger and bandleader for a series of popular music albums with the singer Frankie Laine.
Williams was married to actress Barbara Ruick from 1956 until her death on March 3, 1974. The Williamses had three children: Jennifer (born 1956), Mark (born 1958), and Joseph (born 1960). Williams' younger son (Joseph) is one of the various lead singers the band Toto. John Williams married his second wife, Samantha Winslow, on July 21, 1980.
John Williams is an honorary member of Kappa Kappa Psi, the national fraternity for college band members.
Film and television scoring[link]
While skilled in a variety of 20th century compositional idioms, Williams' most familiar style may be described as a form of neoromanticism,[5] inspired by the same large-scale orchestral music of the late 19th century—especially the compositions of Richard Wagner and its concept of leitmotif—that inspired his film music predecessors.[6]
After his studies at Juilliard, Williams returned to Los Angeles, where he began working as an orchestrator at film studios. Among other composers, Williams worked with Franz Waxman, Bernard Herrmann, and Alfred Newman, and also with his fellow orchestrators Conrad Salinger and Bob Franklyn.[7] Williams was also a studio pianist, performing on film scores by composers such as Jerry Goldsmith, Elmer Bernstein, and Henry Mancini. Williams recorded with Henry Mancini on the film scores of Peter Gunn (1959), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), and Charade (1963). (Williams actually played the well-recognized opening riff to Mancini's Peter Gunn theme.[8][9]) Williams (often credited as "Johnny Williams") also composed the music for various TV programs in the 1960s: The pilot episode of Gilligan's Island,[10] Bachelor Father (1959-1960), the Kraft Suspense Theatre, Lost in Space (1965–68), The Time Tunnel (1966–67), and Land of the Giants (the last three created by the prolific TV producer, Irwin Allen).
Working at Universal Studios, Williams shared music credit on a number of films, the most notable being The Creature from the Black Lagoon in 1954. Williams's first major film composition was for the B movie Daddy-O in 1958, and his first screen credit came two years later in Because They're Young. He soon gained notice in Hollywood for his versatility in composing jazz, piano, and symphonic music. Williams received his first nomination for an Academy Award for his film score for Valley of the Dolls (1967), and then was nominated again for his score for Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969). Williams broke through to win his first Academy Award for his adapted score for the film Fiddler on the Roof (1971). In 1972 he composed the score for the Robert Altman psychological thriller Images (recorded in collaboration with noted percussionist Stomu Yamashta) which earned him another nomination in the category 'Best Music, Original Dramatic Score' at the 1973 Academy Awards. During the early 1970s, Williams' prominence grew thanks to his work for now–film producer Irwin Allen's disaster films, composing the scores for The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974). In addition, he scored Universal's Earthquake (1974) for director Mark Robson, completing a "trinity" of scores for the highest grossing "disaster films" of the decade. He also wrote a very memorable score to The Cowboys (1972), a western starring John Wayne and directed by Mark Rydell.
In 1974, Williams was approached by director Steven Spielberg to compose the music for his feature directorial debut, The Sugarland Express. The young director had been impressed with Williams's score for the movie The Reivers (1969), and Spielberg was convinced that Williams could compose the musical sound that he desired for any of his films. They teamed up again a year later for Spielberg's second film, Jaws. Widely considered to be a classic suspense film, its film score's ominous two-note motif has become synonymous with sharks and approaching danger. The score for Jaws earned Williams his second Academy Award, his first one for an original composition.
Shortly thereafter, Williams and Spielberg began a long collaboration for their next feature film together, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (CE3K, 1977). In an unusual step for a Hollywood film, Spielberg and Williams developed their script and musical concepts simultaneously, as in the film these entwine very closely together. During their two-year-long collaboration, they crafted its distinctive five-note figure that functions both in the background music and as the communications signal of the film's extraterrestrials. Williams also used a system of musical hand signals in CE3K that were based on hand signs created by John Curwen and refined by Zoltan Kodaly.
During the same period, Spielberg recommended Williams to his friend and fellow director George Lucas, who needed a composer to score his ambitious space epic, Star Wars (1977). Williams delivered a grand symphonic score in the fashion of Richard Strauss and Golden Age Hollywood composers Max Steiner and Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Its main theme, "Luke's Theme" is among the most widely recognized in motion picture history, and the "Force Theme" and "Princess Leia's Theme" are well-known examples of leitmotif. Both the film and its soundtrack were immensely successful—it remains the highest grossing non-popular music recording of all-time—and Williams won another Academy Award for Best Original Score. In 1980, Williams returned to score The Empire Strikes Back, where he introduced "The Imperial March" as the theme for Darth Vader and the Galactic Empire. The original Star Wars trilogy concluded with the 1983 film Return of the Jedi, for which Williams's score provided most notably the "Emperor's Theme," "Parade of the Ewoks," and "Luke and Leia." Both scores earned Williams Academy Award nominations.
Williams worked with director Richard Donner to score the 1978 film Superman. The score's heroic and romantic themes, particularly the main march, the Superman fanfare and the love theme, known as "Can You Read My Mind," would appear in the four sequel films. For the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, created and directed by Lucas and Spielberg, Williams wrote a rousing main theme known as "The Raiders March" to accompany the film's hero, Indiana Jones. He also composed separate themes to represent the Ark of the Covenant, the character Marion, and the Nazi villains of the story. Additional themes were featured in his scores to the sequel films Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Williams composed an emotional and sensitive score to Spielberg's 1982 fantasy film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The music conveys the film's benign, childlike sense of innocence, particularly with a spirited theme for the freedom of flight, and a soft string-based, harp-featured theme for the friendship between characters E.T. and Elliott. The film's final chase and farewell sequence marks a rare instance in film history in which the on-screen action was re-edited to conform to the composer's musical interpretation. Williams was awarded a fourth Academy Award for this score.
The 1985 film The Color Purple is the only theatrical feature directed by Steven Spielberg for which John Williams did not serve as composer. The film's producer, Quincy Jones, wanted to personally arrange and compose the music for the project. Williams also did not score Twilight Zone: The Movie, but Spielberg had directed only one of the four segments in that film; the lead director and producer of the film, John Landis, selected Jerry Goldsmith as composer. The Williams-Spielberg collaboration resumed with the director's 1987 film Empire of the Sun, and has continued to the present, spanning genres from science fiction thrillers (1993's Jurassic Park), to somber tragedies (1993's Schindler's List, 2005's Munich), to Eastern-tinged melodramas (2005's Memoirs of a Geisha, directed by Rob Marshall). Spielberg has said, "I call it an honorable privilege to regard John Williams as a friend."[11]
In 1999 George Lucas launched the first of a series of prequels to the original Star Wars trilogy. Williams was asked to score all three films, starting with The Phantom Menace. Along with themes from the previous movies, Williams created new themes to be used as leitmotifs in Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005). Most notable of these was "Duel of the Fates," an aggressive choral movement utilizing harsh Sanskrit lyrics that broadened the style of music used in the Star Wars films. Also of note was "Anakin's Theme," which begins as an innocent childlike melody and morphs insidiously into a quote of the sinister "Imperial March" of the prior trilogy. For Episode II, Williams composed "Across the Stars," a love theme for Padmé Amidala and Anakin Skywalker (mirroring the love theme composed for the second film of the previous trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back). The final installment combined many of the themes created for the series' previous movies, including "The Emperor's Theme," "The Imperial March," "Across the Stars," "Duel of the Fates," "The Force Theme," "Rebel Fanfare," "Luke's Theme," and "Princess Leia's Theme," as well as new themes for General Grievous and the film's climax, entitled "Battle of the Heroes." Few composers have scored an entire series of this magnitude: The combined scores of all six Star Wars films add up to more than 14 hours of orchestral music.
In the new millennium, Williams was asked to score the film adaptations of the widely successful book series, Harry Potter. He went on to score the first three installments of the film franchise. As with his Superman theme, the most important theme from Williams's scores for the adaptations of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, dubbed Hedwig's Theme, has been used in the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth films (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2), scored by Patrick Doyle, Nicholas Hooper and Alexandre Desplat respectively. Like the main themes from Star Wars, Jaws, Superman, and Indiana Jones, fans have come to identify the Harry Potter films with Williams's original compositions. Williams was asked to return to the film franchise to score the final installment, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, but director David Yates stated that "their schedules simply did not align" as he would have had to provide Williams with a rough cut of the film sooner than was possible.
In 2006 Superman Returns was completed under the direction of Bryan Singer, best known for directing the first two movies in the X-Men series. Although Singer did not request Williams to compose a score for the intentionally Donner-esque film, he employed the skills of X2 composer John Ottman to incorporate Williams's original Superman theme, as well as those for Lois Lane, Krypton and Smallville. Don Davis performed a similar role for Jurassic Park III, recommended to the producers by Williams himself. (Film scores by Ottman and to a lesser extent Davis are often compared to those of Williams, as both use similar styles of composition.)
In 2008 Williams returned to the Indiana Jones series to score the fourth film—The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. He received a Grammy nomination for his work on the film. During 2008, he also composed music for two documentaries, Warner at War,[12] and A Timeless Call,[13] the latter of which was directed by Steven Spielberg.
After a three year absence from film scoring, Williams composed the scores for Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn and War Horse in 2011. Both scores received overwhelmingly positive reviews,[14][15][16][17][18][19] with both scores earning Oscar nominations,[20] and the latter being nominated for a Golden Globe.[21] The Oscar nominations are Williams' 46th and 47th, making him the most nominated musician in Academy Awards history (having previously been tied with Alfred Newman's 45 nominations), and the second most nominated overall, following Walt Disney. Williams won an Annie Award for his score for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn in 2012.
Williams is next scheduled to score Spielberg's 2012 film Lincoln.
Conducting and performing[link]
From 1980 to 1993, Williams succeeded Arthur Fiedler as Principal Conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Williams never met Fiedler in person but spoke with him by telephone. His arrival as the new leader of the Pops in the spring of 1980 allowed him to devote part of the Pops' first PBS broadcast of the season to presenting his new compositions for The Empire Strikes Back, in addition to conducting many Fiedler audience favorites.
Williams almost ended his tenure with the Pops in 1984.[22] Considered a customary practice of opinion, some players hissed while sight-reading a new Williams composition in rehearsal; Williams abruptly left the session and turned in his resignation. He initially cited mounting conflicts with his film composing schedule, but later admitted a perceived lack of discipline in and respect from the Pops' ranks, culminating in this latest instance. After entreaties by the management and personal apologies from the musicians, Williams withdrew his resignation and continued as principal conductor for nine more years.[23] In 1995 he was succeeded by Keith Lockhart, the former associate conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.
Williams is now the Laureate Conductor of the Pops, thus maintaining his affiliation with its parent, the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO). Williams leads the Pops on several occasions each year, particularly during their Holiday Pops season and typically for a week of concerts in May. He conducts an annual Film Night at both Boston Symphony Hall and Tanglewood, where he frequently enlists the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, official chorus of the BSO....
Williams has written many concert pieces, including a symphony; a Concerto for Horn written for Dale Clevenger, principal hornist of the Chicago Symphony; a Concerto for Clarinet written for Michele Zukovsky (Principal Clarinetist of the Los Angeles Philharmonic) in 1991;[24] a sinfonietta for wind ensemble; a cello concerto premiered by Yo-Yo Ma and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood in 1994; concertos for the flute and violin recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra; and a trumpet concerto, which was premiered by the Cleveland Orchestra and their principal trumpet Michael Sachs in September 1996. His bassoon concerto, "The Five Sacred Trees", which was premiered by the New York Philharmonic and principal bassoon player Judith LeClair in 1995, was recorded for Sony Classical by Williams with LeClair and the London Symphony Orchestra. He is also an accomplished pianist, as can be heard in various scores in which he provides solos, as well as a handful of European classical music recordings.
Williams was the subject of an hour-long documentary for the BBC in 1980, and was featured in a story for ABC's newsmagazine 20/20 in 1983.[25]
In 1985, Williams was commissioned by NBC to compose a television news music package for various network news spots. The package, which Williams named "The Mission", consists of four movements, two of which are still used heavily by NBC today for The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and Meet the Press. Williams also composed the "Liberty Fanfare" for the rededication of the Statue of Liberty, "We're Lookin' Good!" for the Special Olympics in celebration of the 1987 International Summer Games, and themes for the 1984, 1988, 1996, and 2002 Olympic games. His most recent concert work, "Seven for Luck", for soprano and orchestra, is a seven-piece song cycle based on the texts of former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove. "Seven for Luck" was given its world premiere by the Boston Symphony under Williams with soprano Cynthia Haymon.
Williams makes annual appearances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, and took part as conductor and composer in the orchestra's opening gala concerts for the Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2003.
In 2004, Williams both served as the Grand Marshall for the Rose Parade, and directed the Star Spangled Banner at the beginning of the Rose Bowl.
In April 2005, Williams and the Boston Pops performed "The Force Theme" from Star Wars at opening day in Fenway Park as the Boston Red Sox, having won their first World Series championship since 1918, received their championship rings. For Game 1 of the 2007 World Series, Williams conducted a brass-and-drum ensemble through a new dissonant arrangement of the "Star Spangled Banner."[25]
In April 2004, February 2006, and September 2007, he conducted the New York Philharmonic at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City. The initial program was intended to be a one-time special event, and featured Williams's medley of Oscar-winning film scores first performed at the previous year's Academy Awards.[26] Its unprecedented popularity led to two concerts in 2006: fundraising gala events featuring personal recollections by film directors Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg.[27] Continuing demand fueled three more concerts in 2007, which all sold out. These featured a tribute to the musicals of film director Stanley Donen, and had the distinction of serving as the opening event of the New York Philharmonic season.[28] After a four-season absence, Williams conducted the Philharmonic once again in October 2011.[29]
Awards[link]
John Williams has won five Academy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. He has also been nominated for 22 Golden Globes, winning four, and 59 Grammys, winning 20. With 47 Oscar nominations, Williams currently holds the record for the most Oscar nominations for a living person,[30][31] and is the second most nominated person in the history of the Academy Awards behind only Walt Disney's 59. Forty-two of Williams' Oscar nominations are for Best Original Score and five are for Best Original Song. He won four Oscars for Best Original Score and one for Best Adapted Score (Fiddler on the Roof).
Williams has received three Emmy Awards and five nominations, seven BAFTAs, twenty Grammy Awards, and has been inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame and the Hollywood Bowl Hall of Fame. In 2004 he received a Kennedy Center Honor. He won a Classical Brit award in 2005 for his soundtrack work of the previous year.
Notably, Williams has won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition for his scores for Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Superman, The Empire Strikes Back, E.T. The Extraterrestrial, Angela's Ashes (1999), Munich (2005), and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The competition includes not only composers of film scores, but also composers of instrumental music of any genre, including composers of classical fare such as symphonies and chamber music.
In 2003, the International Olympic Committee accorded Mr. Williams its highest individual honor, the Olympic Order.[32]
In 2009, Williams received the National Medal of Arts in the White House in Washington for his achievements in symphonic music for motion pictures, and "as a pre-eminent composer and conductor [whose] scores have defined and inspired modern movie-going for decades."[33]
John Williams was made an honorary brother of Kappa Kappa Psi at Boston University in the late 80's. [34]
AFI[link]
Williams's richly thematic and highly popular 1977 score to Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope was selected in 2005 by the American Film Institute as the greatest American movie score of all time. His scores for Jaws and E.T. also appeared on the list, at No. 6 and No. 14, respectively.[35] He is the only composer to have three scores on the list. Williams' scores for the following films were nominated for the list:
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
- The Cowboys (1972)
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Schindler's List (1993)
- Superman (1978)
- The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
List of awards[link]
Discography[link]
Main article: John Williams discography
Charting hits (U.S., Billboard)[link]
- 1975 - "Theme From Jaws", #32
- 1977 - "Star Wars Theme - Main Title", #10
- 1978 - "Theme From Close Encounters Of The Third Kind", #13
- 1979 - "Theme From Superman", #81
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ Official Academy Awards Database at www.oscars.org (accessed September 29, 2007)
- ^ "BMI Film/Awards:1999". bmi.com. http://www.bmi.com/news/entry/533563. Retrieved November 4, 2010.
- ^ "John Williams, el compositor de la aventura". Revista Esfinge. http://www.revistaesfinge.com/?p=569. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ a b Sony Classical Williams Biography at www.sonybmgmasterworks.com. Retrieved September 29, 2007.
- ^ "Romanticism". https://www.wsu.edu/~brians/hum_303/romanticism.html. Retrieved August 25, 2006.
- ^ "Star Wars and Wagner's Ring". http://www.trell.org/wagner/starwars.html. Retrieved August 15, 2010.
- ^ Films & Filming, vol.24, 1977, p.32
- ^ Tribute to John Williams, ca. 1991.
- ^ John Williams Biography at FilmReference.com.
- ^ Marooned credits (unaired pilot, October 16, 1962)
- ^ Spielberg, Steven (1993). "Back cover". Jurassic Park Audio CD (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD) (Album notes). MCA. "...and I consider it a privilege to call John my Friend."
- ^ Warner at War (2008) (TV) - Full cast and crew
- ^ A Timeless Call (2008) - Full cast and crew
- ^ "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (John Williams)". Filmtracks. http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/tintin.html. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ "War Horse (John Williams)". Filmtracks. 2011-11-21. http://www.filmtracks.com/titles/war_horse.html. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (John Williams) « MovieCues". Moviecues.com. 2011-11-01. http://www.moviecues.com/tintin/. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ "War Horse (John Williams) « MovieCues". Moviecues.com. 2011-12-04. http://www.moviecues.com/war-horse/. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ "The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn – John Williams « Movie Music Uk". Moviemusicuk.us. 2011-10-23. http://moviemusicuk.us/2011/10/23/the-adventures-of-tintin-the-secret-of-the-unicorn-john-williams/. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ "The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn soundtrack review | John Williams". movie-wave.net. http://www.movie-wave.net/?p=1883. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ "Winners for the 84th Academy Awards | Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences". Oscars.org. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/84/nominees.html. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ Thursday, December 15, 2011 (2011-12-15). "The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards NOMINATIONS | OFFICIAL WEBSITE of the HFPA and the GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS". Goldenglobes.org. http://www.goldenglobes.org/blog/2011/12/the-69th-annual-golden-globe-awards-nominations/. Retrieved 2012-04-30.
- ^ Holland, Bernard (June 14, 1984). "Boston Pops Conductor Resigns Abruptly". New York Times. http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F10E11FE3B5F0C778DDDAF0894DC484D81. Retrieved September 17, 2007.
- ^ Clendinen, Dudley (May 1, 1985). "At 100, the Boston Still Packs Them In". New York Times. http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F20F10F93D5F0C728CDDAC0894DD484D81. Retrieved September 17, 2007.
- ^ "Concerto for Clarinet". MyTempo.com. 1991. http://www.mytempo.com/williams.htm. Retrieved September 17, 2007.
- ^ a b "John Williams: Videos" from the John Williams Fan Network, June 2, 2007.
- ^ "John Williams: the Art of the Score". Nyphil.org. 2004-02-10. http://nyphil.org/meet/archive/index.cfm?page=eventDetail&eventNum=399&seasonNum=3. Retrieved 2011-09-05.
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- ^ "John Williams". New York Philharmonic. http://nyphil.org/attend/broadcasts/index.cfm?page=broadcastDetail&broadcastKey=149. Retrieved January 6, 2008.
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- ^ "IOC awards the Olympic Order to John Williams". IOC. May 1, 2003. http://www.olympic.org/news?articleid=56284. Retrieved 19 December 2011.
- ^ "Remarks by the President at Presentation of the National Humanities Medal and the National Medal of the Arts | The White House". February 25, 2010. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-presentation-national-humanities-medal-and-national-medal-arts. Retrieved July 4, 2011.
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Further reading[link]
- Moormann, Peter (2010) (in German). Spielberg-Variationen: die Filmmusik von John Williams. Baden-Baden: Nomos, Edition Reinhard Fischer. p. 797. ISBN 978-3-8329-5355-3.
- Aschieri, Roberto (1999) (in Spanish). Over The Moon: La Mứsica de John Williams Para El Cine. Santigo, Chile: Función Privada, sponsored by Universidad Diego Portales. p. 400. ISBN 978-4-89799-246-4.
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Conductor, Boston Pops Orchestra 1980–1993 |
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