2014 Event Seth Meyers hosts the 66th Annual Emmy Awards; winning series include 'Modern Family' for best comedy and 'Breaking Bad' for best drama; winning actors include Julianna Margulies ('The Good Wife') and Bryan Cranston ('Breaking Bad') 2013 Event The Nokia Theatre in downtown Los Angeles hosts the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards; award-winning television shows include 'Breaking Bad' and 'Modern Family' 2004 Death Elmer Bernstein, composer, Thoroughly Modern Millie, dies at 82 2002 Event Tony Awards, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Private Lives revival, and Into the Woods revival won major awards 1999 Death Saul Steinberg, cartoonist/modern artist, A View of the World from Manhattan, dies at 84 1997 Event South Africa announces it is constructing largest modern day blimp 1996 Death Ai Qing, modern Chinese poet, dies at 86 1995 Death Martha Hill, modern dancer/teacher, dies at 94 1989 Death Beatrice Lillie, actress (Thoroughly Modern Millie), dies at 94 1984 Event King Boudouin opens Museum for Modern Art in Brussels 1984 Event 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles 1984 Death Garry Winogrand, prolific photographer, known for 20th century portraits of America, focusing on social issues of the time, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, published 'The Animals', 'Public Relations', dies of gallbladder cancer at age 56 1984 Event Edmonton beats Minnesota 12-8 highest-scoring modern NHL game 1980 Event 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; U.S. and others boycott 1977 Death Charlie Chaplin, actor (Modern Times), dies in Switzerland at 88 1976 Event 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal 1974 Death Yoshida Isoya, Japanese architect (modern sukiya style), dies at 79 1971 Death Chester Conklin, actor (Greed, Modern Times), dies at 83 1964 Event 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo 1962 Birthday Michael Colnroy, Modern English, rocker 1961 Event Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days 1961 Event NY Museum of Modern Art hangs Henri Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down It wasn't corrected until December 3rd 1961 Death Seerp Anema, Dutch poet and writer (Modern Art and Degenerating), dies at 85 1958 Death Rudolf von Laban, Czechoslovakian/Germany choreographer (modern dance), dies at 78 1958 Birthday Paul Weller, guitar, Jam-This is Modern World, Style Council 1957 Death Maria "Mary" Beekman, actress (Modern Landhaaien), dies at 73 1957 Birthday Robbie Grey, rocker, English rock band Modern English, most famous song, "I Melt With You" 1956 Event 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne 1956 Event 16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm 1956 Event Arnold Schonberg's "Modern Psalm," premieres 1954 Birthday Chris Stamey, born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, musician, rocker, songwriter, record producer, formed the dB's, founded Car Records indie record label, founded recording studio called Modern Recording where he recorded and mixed Whiskeytown 1954 Event Boxing Hall of Fame's 1st election selects 24 modern and 15 pioneers 1953 Event Willie Thrower becomes 1st black NFL quarterback in modern times 1952 Event 1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil," premieres in Hollywood 1952 Event 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland 1951 Birthday Liz Phillips, born in New Jersey, composer, sound artist, interactive artist, creates sound installations relating to live forms, has held exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, collaborated with Merce Cunningham Dance Company 1951 Birthday Jonathan Richman, rocker, Modern Lovers-New England, Egyptian Reggae 1949 Birthday David Robinson, born in Woburn, Massachusetts, drummer, musician, played with various rock bands including The Cars, The Modern Lovers and DMZ 1948 Event King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London 1947 Event Jackie Robinson becomes 1st black in modern major-league baseball 1945 Event The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of 1940 Death Paul Klee, Swiss/German painter/tutor (Modern Art), dies at 60 1937 Death William Henry Hadow, composer (Studies in Modern Music), dies at 77 1937 Birthday P J Squire, British headmaster, Bedford Modern School 1937 Event 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released 1935 Birthday Peter Frankl, born in Hungary, pianist, performs classical music, Romantic period, early Modern, recorded the complete solo piano music of Debussy, performed with world class orchestras throughout America and Europe 1933 Event 1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, Minn 1933 Birthday Philip Corner, born in America, composer, visual artist, taught by Fritz Jahoda, teacher, Modern Music at the New School for Social Research 1932 Event 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles 1932 Birthday Paul Erlich, born in Bad Homburg, Germany, scientist, immunologist, won Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, developed first antibacterial drug in modern medicine 1929 Event New York City Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building 1929 Event Museum of Modern Art opens in New York City 1928 Birthday Sol LeWitt, born in Connecticut, artist, modern art pioneer, famous for wall drawings and "structures" 1928 Event 9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam 1928 Birthday Garry Winogrand, born in New York City, New York, prolific photographer, known for 20th century portraits of America, focusing on social issues of the time, exhibited at Museum of Modern Art, published 'The Animals', 'Public Relations' 1920 Event 7th modern Olympic games opens in Antwerp Belgium 1917 Birthday Jo Stafford, born in California, American pop and jazz singer, pioneer of modern musical parody 1917 Birthday Dizzy Gillespie, jazz trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz 1913 Event 1st modern elastic brassiere patented by Mary Phelps Jacob 1912 Birthday David Raksin, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, composer, Modern Times 1910 Birthday Ai Qing, born in Eastern China, modern Chinese poet, original name Jiang Zheng Han, influenced by Kant and Hegel, modern poet Mayakovsky and Belgian poet Verhaeren 1908 Event 4th modern Olympic games opens in London 1908 Event 4th modern Olympic games opens in London 1906 Event 3rd modern Olympic games opens in Athens 1906 Event Britain's 1st modern and largest battleship "HMS Dreadnought" launched 1904 Event 3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St. Louis 1904 Event 3rd modern Olympic games opens in St. Louis 1902 Birthday Lucie Rie, born in Vienna, Austria, born Luzie Gomperz, potter, works displayed in collections around the world including the Museum of Modern Art in New York 1902 Death Robert Adamson, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, philosopher, professor, served as chair of logic at University of Glasgow 1893 - 1902, important lectures published in 'The Development of Modern Philosophy and Other Essays', dies 1901 Birthday Charles Weidman, born in Nebraska, modern dancer and choreographer, Candide 1901 Birthday George Keyt, born in Sri Lanka, artist, modern painter, cubist style, influenced by Henri Matisse, celebrated for line drawing translation of Gita Govinda into English and Sinhalese 1900 Event 2nd modern Olympic games opens in Paris (lasted 5 months) 1900 Birthday Hyman G Rickover, U.S. Admiral, father of modern nuclear navy 1898 Birthday Rod La Rocque, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Our Modern Maidens 1896 Event 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece, American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in mod history 1896 Event 1st modern Olympic Games officially opens in Athens 1896 Event Modern Olympics began in Athens, Greece 1896 Event Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 3:18 1894 Birthday Yoshida Isoya, Tokyo, Japan, architect, modern sukiya style 1894 Birthday Hermann Oberth, born in Germany, founded modern astronautics, V2/Redstone 1894 Event Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years 1892 Event P de Coubertin launches plan for Modern Olympic Games 1892 Event Longest boxing match under modern rules; 77 rounds in Nameoki, Illinois between Harry Sharpe and Frank Crosby 1889 Birthday A Provost Idell, father of modern volleyball 1880 Birthday Mikhail Fokine, born in Russia, choreographer/founder of modern dance 1879 Birthday Rudolf von Laban, Czechoslovakian/German choreographer, modern dance 1871 Birthday Henricus P Bremmer, art historian, Modern Kunstwerken 1869 Birthday Albert Kahn, architect, originated modern factory design 1866 Birthday Sun Yat-sen, father of modern China, ROC and PRC, traditional 1862 Death F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari), dies at 73 1861 Birthday Ferdinand I, Vienna, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria, 1908-18 1856 Birthday Louis Henri Sullivan, born in Boston, Massachusetts, father of modern U.S. architecture 1852 Birthday Robert Adamson, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, philosopher, professor, served as chair of logic at University of Glasgow 1893 - 1902, important lectures published in 'The Development of Modern Philosophy and Other Essays' 1850 Birthday Harishchandra, India, poet/dramatist/father of modern Hindi 1829 Event Tremont Hotel, 1st U.S. modern hotel opens (Boston) 1828 Birthday Albrecht Grafe, pioneer eye surgeon; founded modern ophthalmology 1799 Birthday Aleksandr Sergeyevich, Russia, poet, founder of modern Russian Lit 1788 Birthday F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter, Modern Vasari 1787 Birthday Karl Ferdinand von Grafe, help create modern plastic surgery 1779 Birthday Carl Ritter, cofounder of modern science of geography 1755 Birthday Nicolas-Jacque Conte, inventor, modern pencil 1747 Death Luc de Clapiers, born in Aix-en-Provence, France, writer, essayist, moralist, considered a modern Stoic, believed mankind is noble, employed epigrammic language to express observations of human conduct and motives, dies in Paris 1715 Birthday Luc de Clapiers, born in Aix-en-Provence, France, writer, essayist, moralist, considered a modern Stoic, believed mankind is noble, employed epigrammic language to express observations of human conduct and motives 1608 Event Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey 1597 Birthday Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry" 1554 Death Hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany), dies 1400 Death Florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies
