GOOD MORNING EVERYONE
Almanac for Saturday, September 14, 2024
It is the 258th day of the Gregorian calendar.
There are 108 days left until the end of the year
REFERENCE DATA FROM WIKIPEDIA
IS BORN
1938: Renzo Piano, architect known throughout the world for his
works. In 2013 he was appointed by Napolitano, senator to
vita.
1962: Marco Marzocca, comedian and actor
(I’m Lillo, TV series 2023)
1967: Beatrice Schiros, Italian actress
(Spin It 2 – Offline, 2024)
1987: Miriam Dalmazio, actress
(Rocco Schiavone, TV series 2023 – ongoing)
1989: Frank Matano, YouTuber, comedian and actor
(Accidental Gigolo, TV Series 2023)
DIES
2010: Caterina Boratto, actress (Seven Criminals and
a dachshund – Once Upon a Crime)(n.1915)
2013: Michele di Fiò, singer-songwriter
(One step away from heaven there is)(n. 1956)
2014: Gianfranco Draghi, writer, artist and psychoanalyst.
He was among the first presidents of the Italian Association of
analytical psychology (AIPA) (b. 1924)
2014: Enrico Tovaglieri, set designer
(The five days of Milan)
2020: Nicolò D’Amico, academic and astrophysicist, was
President of the National Institute of Astrophysics (INA) (b.1953)
FOREIGNERS
1960: Melissa Leo, American actress, Oscar winner, is born
(The Equalizer 3 – Without respite, 2023)
1999: Emma Kenney, American actress, is born
(The Conners – serie TV dal 2018 – in corso)
2019: British actress Jean Heywood dies
(Married Single Other, 2010) (n. 1921)
2022: Henry Silva, American actor, dies. His face,
characteristic for impassivity and harshness of expression,
he often played the role of the evil antagonist.
(Ocean’s Eleven – Play Your Game, 2001) (n.1926)
IT HAPPENED
1224: According to tradition Francis of Assisi,
Patron of Italy, he receives the stigmata on Mount Verna
1321: dies Dante Alighierithe Divine Poet author of the
“Divine Comedy”. Returning from Venice, he had
crossed the Comacchio marshes where he contracted the
malaria, which caused his death (n.1265)
1886: George K. Anderson patents the tape
of the typewriter
1927: In Nice, Isadora Duncan, American dancer
pioneer of modern dance, dies at the age of 49:
the scarf he wears around his neck gets caught in the wheel
of the sports car she was travelling in, strangling her
1959: The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes into the Moon,
becoming the first human artifact to reach it but
also be the first abandoned solid waste
1960: TheOrganization of the Countries
Oil Exporters (OPEC)
1982: Following injuries sustained in the accident
road accident that had occurred the day before in the Principality of
Monaco, Princess and Oscar-winning actress dies
Grace Kelly (b. 1929 – †1982), wife of
Prince Ranieri III° (b.1923 † 2005)
1991: Piero Cannata, a madman from Prato, in the
Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence, strikes with a
hammer the left foot of Michelangelo’s “David”
Buonarroti, damaging it. Cannata said he had done it
“at the request of the ‘Bella Nani’ “, a painting
by Veronese exhibited at the Louvre
1993: Okecie, Poland: during a storm, an Airbus
A320 fails to decelerate during landing (a
due to incorrect specifications of the management software
braking), a driver and a passenger die
2003: Sweden rejects adoption in referendum
of the Euro.
2005: Baghdad: A series of attacks causes 154 deaths and
over 500 wounded, mostly Shiites. Al Qaeda
claims the massacres, as revenge for the deaths caused by a few
weeks earlier during a Sunni celebration.
2015: The first gravitational wave is detected
all’interferometro VIRGO, located in the municipality of Cascina
(PI), in the Santo Stefano area of Macerata
TIME TO TIME
1882: Flooding of the Adige River in the city of Verona.
It caused 11 deaths and extensive damage
THE CHURCH REMEMBERS
Exaltation of the Holy Cross
Saints and Blesseds
Saint Cyprian, Saint Albert of Jerusalem,
Beato Claudio Laplace,
Saint Crescentius of Rome
MEANING OF NAMES
Crescenzio – From the Latin=which grows, increases (the family).
The Gospel tells you to “grow and multiply” –
“I tell you, mother, increase your family and your joy
will multiply” (Anonymous)
Proverbs
A hen that doesn’t peck,
he’s already caught
APHORISM
Impossible? Is there anything impossible?
Read the newspapers.
(Arthur Wellesley Duca di Wellington)
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS
The largest number of dice stacked on a cat’s paw.
In Malaysia, on June 18, 2017, Bibi, a domestic cat
short-haired, kept on one paw motionless,
as many as 10 dice, obtaining the record
THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS
The meaning of DANDELION (Taraxacum officinale) is:
– Frank Oracle
PHRASE OF THE DAY
It’s easier to die for a religion
that you absolutely have to live it.
(Jorges Luis Borges)
FUNNY MAXIM OF THE DAY
Between friends:
– I have never made love to my wife
before I get married. And you?
– Well, I don’t know… What was your wife’s name when she was a girl?