<h3>This week's cover</h3>
Martin Luther King Jr. (Infographic/Figure)
<h3>event</h3>
September 1, 1902: The first science fiction film, Journey to the Moon, is released in France.
August 29, 1952: American avant-garde composer John Cage's masterpiece 4 minutes and 33 seconds is performed in public for the first time.
The pianist took the stage and sat down in front of the piano, and the audience sat quietly under the lights and waited. 1 minute, no movement, 2 minutes, no movement, at 4 minutes and 33 seconds, the pianist stood up and closed the curtain: "Thank you, just now I have successfully played "4 minutes and 33 seconds". ”
"4 minutes and 33 seconds" is an unprecedented silent piece, and the rest of the song is 4 minutes and 33 seconds long.
August 28, 1963: Martin Luther King Jr., a leader of the African-American civil rights movement, gives a speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., "I Have a Dream."
September 1, 1985: The wreckage of the Titanic is found.
August 31, 1992: The feature film "Qiu Ju Fights the Lawsuit" premiered in Beijing.
August 28, 2004: At the Athens Olympics, Liu Xiang won the men's 110m hurdles with a time of 12.91 seconds, drawing the world record set by Britain's Colin Jackson in 1993 and breaking the Olympic record of 12.95 seconds. This is the first gold medal in track and field won by a Chinese male athlete at the Olympic Games.
August 26, 2005: Li Yuchun became China's first winner to be selected by the audience in the annual finals of the TV show "2005 Happy China Super Girl".
August 31, 2007: Anthropomorphic music software Hatsune Mirai is released.
<h3>Born</h3>
- 27 August 1624 – Zheng Chenggong, general of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties (died 1662)
- 30 August 1748 – Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
- 28 August 1749 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (d. 1832)
- 27 August 1770 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher (died 1831)
A man who aspires to great achievement must, as Goethe said, know how to limit himself. On the contrary, people who want to do everything can't actually do anything, and eventually fail.
The truly valuable tragedy does not arise between good and evil, but out of the collision of two rationalities between self and dilemma.
- 29 August 1780 – Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres, French painter (died 1867)
Neoclassical painter.
Ingres oil painting "Princess de Broy" (1853) (data picture/picture)
- 30 August 1785 – Lin Zexu, politician and thinker (d. 1850)
Lin Zexu famous sentence:
The sea is full of rivers, there is tolerance is great; the wall stands a thousand, and the desireless is rigid
- Lin Zexu was the Tanglian of the Inscription at the Governor's Mansion when he was the Governor of Liangguang
- 30 August 1797 – Mary Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)
- 29 August 1862 – Maurice Polydol Marie Bernard Metrink, Belgian poet, playwright, essayist, winner of the 1911 Nobel Prize in Literature (died 1949)
Masterpiece Six-act fantasy drama "Blue Bird"
- 31 August 1870 – Maria Montessori, Italian educator
- August 27, 1871 – Theodore Drexel, American writer, one of the Three Giants of modern American fiction (died 1945)
Masterpieces "Sister Carrie", "Jenny Girl", "American Tragedy"
- September 1, 1875 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American science fiction novelist, author of the Tarzan series (died 1950)
August 28, 1908 – Roger Torre Peterson, American naturalist, ornithologist, artist, educator, and one of the founders of the 20th-century environmental movement (died 1996)
In 1934, Peterson published the far-reaching Guide to the Birds, the first modern field manual. The manual has been published in 5 editions. He himself edited or wrote numerous monographs in the Peterson Field Manual series, ranging from rocks and minerals to beetles and reptiles. These manuals are known for their clarity of illustrations. In addition, Peterson invented the Peterson Identification System.
- 26 August 1914 – Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer and scholar (died 1984)
- August 31, 1914: Luo Yusheng, jingyun drum performer, chairman of the Chinese Qu Artists Association
- 29 August 1915 – Ingrid Bergman, Swedish actor (died 1982)
He has won three Academy Awards, two Emmys and one Tony Award.
In Rossellini's film Europe in 1951, Bergman plays an American noblewoman living in Rome, whose sudden death awakens her, resolutely breaks free from the shackles of high society, and instead walks into the people and understands the real social problems.
Stills from the film Europe in 1951 (1952) (Infographic/Photo)
August 28, 1917 – Jack Bryant, American cartoonist, editor, screenwriter, known as the "Master of American Comic Book Art" (died 1994)
Masterpieces Captain America, Fantastic Four, Hulk, X-Men, The Avengers, Fourth World
- August 29, 1919 – Wu Guanzhong, painter (died 2010)
- September 1, 1935 – Seiji Ozawa, Japanese conductor
- 29 August 1937 – Lottie, actor (died 1968)
- August 28, 1947 – Wang Mingquan, actor
August 31, 1949 – Richard Keele, American actor, winner of the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in Comedy and Music
Representative works "Chicago", "The Story of Hachiko the Loyal Dog", "It Seems that the Old Man Came", "Heaven's Day", "I Am Not There", "Spelling Contest"
September 1, 1956– Zhang Fengyi, actor
Representative works The movie "Farewell to the Overlord", "The Old Affair of Seongnam", "Camel Xiangzi", "Jing Ke Thorn Qin King", TV series "The Name of the People", "The Year of the Dragon Archives", "The Gate of the Great Mansion", "The Age of Peace"
Stills from In the Name of the People (2017) (Infographic/Photo)
August 29, 1958 – Michael Jackson, American pop singer, composer, dancer, and record producer (died 2009)
Stills from the documentary "That's It" (2009) (Infographic/Photo)
August 30, 1958: Yu Rongguang, actor
August 28, 1962 – David Finch, American director
Masterpieces Movies "Fight Club", "Benjamin Button's Strange Story", "The Disappearing Lover", "Seven Deadly Sins", "Social Network", "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", "Zodiac", "Shudder Space", "Alien 3", "Mental Games", TV series "House of Cards"
August 26, 1963 – Liu Huan, singer
Representative works "Young Ambition Does Not Say Anything", "Crooked Moon", "Sun in the Heart", "Ten Million Times To Ask", "This Worship", "Good Han Song", "Start Again", "Phoenix Yu Fei", "Me and You"
- August 26, 1964 – Ma Xiaochun, Go player, China's first World Champion of Go
- August 30, 1970 – Mitsura, Malaysian singer
August 27, 1971 – Zhang Zhilin, actor and singer
August 26, 1974 – Huang Bo, actor
Masterpieces "Dear", "Crazy Stone", "Bullfighting", "Crazy Racing", "Get on the Car and Go", "Kill", "Dragon Hunting Tips", "Tai Lu of Man's Journey Again", "Memory Master", "Journey to the West", "Cook Drama", "Chaoyang Gate", "Egg Fried Rice", "Iron Man"
Stills from the movie "Dear" (2014) (Infographic/Photo)
- 31 August 1976 – Ah Niu, Malaysian singer
Representative works "Old Abel who is selling vegetables on a tricycle", "Goodbye", "The girl across from me looks over", "Peach blossoms bloom"
August 27, 1979 – Tian Liang, diver
August 26, 1980 – Macaulay Kerkin, American actor
Masterpiece of the "Little Devil Is Home" series
- August 29, 1980 – Nicholas Tse, singer and actor
August 30, 1982 – Wu Qingfeng, singer, lead singer of Soda Green
- August 30, 1982 – Yang Youning, actor
- August 27, 1983 – Chen Bailin, actor
August 29, 1983 – Lei Jiayin, actor
Representative works TV series "The Twelve Hours of Chang'an", "White Deer Plain", "Peace Hotel"
August 31, 1983 – Da Zhang Wei, singer
- August 29, 1989 – Su Bingtian, sprinter
<h3>The deceased</h3>
Martha, passenger pigeon on the cover of Science magazine (2017). (Robb Kendrick/Photo)
1 September 1914: Martha, the last passenger pigeon in the world (born circa 1909)
Its name comes from Martha Washington, the wife of U.S. President Washington.
When Europeans came to the North American continent in the 17th century, there were as many as 5 billion passenger pigeons in North America. The meat of the passenger pigeon was delicious and became the food of these pioneers, and when the passenger pigeon meat was widely accepted by the public, a large-scale commercial hunt began.
In 1857, a number of scholars introduced a bill to the Ohio Legislature calling for the protection of passenger pigeons. However, the Legislative Council's special committee refused to legislate to protect passenger pigeons on the grounds that "the number of passenger pigeons is huge, the habitat is everywhere, and the feeding grounds are spacious and open". At the same time, the development of railroads and telegraphs after the American Civil War led to a massive increase in the working population, fueling the demand for passenger pigeons.
Between 1870 and 1890, the number of passenger pigeons plummeted. By the mid-1890s, passenger pigeons were very rare. After that, there were almost no field records of passenger pigeons. In 1897, Michigan finally legislated to ban the hunting of passenger pigeons for 10 years, but it was too late.
Charles of the University of Chicago. Professor Whitman began rescuing wild passenger pigeons in the 1880s and experimented with captivity and breeding, but the number of pigeons was still decreasing. In 1898, Professor Whitman gave a few passenger pigeons to the Cincinnati Zoo, hoping to preserve this precious species through the breeding of zoo professionals. In 1914, the last passenger pigeon in the world died.
Princess Diana (Infographic/Photo)
31 August 1997: Diana Francis Spencer, Princess of the United Kingdom (born 1961)
Liu Youxiang