valentine's day October 16 History, Events, Famous Birthdays, Music History, Notable Passings

October 16 History, Events, Famous Birthdays, Music History, Notable Passings

October 16 History

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1701 - The Collegiate School was founded in Killingworth, CT. The school moved to New Haven in 1745 and changed its name to Yale College.

1758 - Author Noah Webster was born. He was a teacher and journalist whose name is associated with the word "dictionary."

1793 - During the French Revolution, Queen Marie Antoinette was beheaded.

1829 - The first modern hotel in America opened. The Tremont Hotel had 170 rooms that rented for $2 a day and included four meals.

1846 - Ether, the painkiller, was used for the first time. The drug was invented by dentist William T. Morton.

1859 - Abolitionist John Brown led a raid on Harper's Ferry, VA (now located in West Virginia).

1869 - A hotel in Boston became the first in the U.S. to install indoor plumbing.

1898 - Supreme Court Justice William Orville Douglas was born. He served for 36 years on the U.S. Supreme Court.

1916 - Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic in New York City, NY.

1923 - Walt Disney contracted with M.J. Winkler to distribute the Alice Comedies. This event is recognized as the start of the Disney Company.

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1928 - Marvin Pipkin received a patent for the frosted electric light bulb.

1939 - "Right To Happiness" debuted on the NBC-Blue network.

1939 - "The Man Who Came to Dinner" opened on Broadway.

1941 - The Nazis advanced to within 60 miles of Moscow. Romanians entered Odessa, USSR, and began exterminating 150,000 Jews.

1942 - The ballet "Rodeo" premiered in New York City.

1943 - Chicago's new subway system was officially opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony.

1944 - "The Robe," by Lloyd Douglas, was published for the first time.

1945 - "His Honor the Barber" debuted on NBC Radio.

1946 - 10 Nazi war criminals were hanged after being condemned by the Nuremberg trials.

1955 - Mrs. Jules Lederer replaced Ruth Crowley in newspapers using the name Ann Landers.

1962 - U.S. President Kennedy was informed that there were missile bases in Cuba, beginning the Cuban missile crisis.

1964 - China detonated its first atomic bomb becoming the world's fifth nuclear power.

1967 - NATO headquarters opened in Brussels.

1970 - Anwar Sadat was elected president of Egypt to succeed Gamal Abdel Nassar.

1973 - Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize. The Vietnamese official declined the award.

1987 - Rescuers freed Jessica McClure from the abandoned well that she had fallen into in Midland, TX. The was trapped for 58 hours.

1989 - U.S. President George H.W. Bush signed the Gramm-Rudman budget reduction law that ordered federal programs be cut by $16.1 billion.

1990 - Comedian Steve Martin and his wife Victoria Tennant visited U.S. soldiers in Saudi Arabia.

1990 - The play "Stand Up Tragedy" closed after only 13 performances.

1991 - George Hennard crashed his truck into a Luby's Cafeteria in Killeen, TX and began a shooting rampage in which he killed 23 people before taking his own life.

1993 - The U.N. Security Council approved the deployment of U.S. warships to enforce a blockade on Haiti to increase pressure on the controlling military leaders.

1994 - German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was re-elected to a fourth term.

1995 - The "Million Man March" took place in Washington, DC.

1997 - Charles M. Schulz and his wife Jeannie announced that they would give $1 million toward the construction of a D-Day memorial to be placed in Virginia.

2000 - It was announced that Chevron Corp. would be buying Texaco Inc. for $35 billion. The combined company was called Chevron Texaco Corp. and became the 4th largest oil company in the world.

2002 - It was reported that North Korea had told the U.S. that it had a secret nuclear weapons program in violation of an 1994 agreement with the U.S.

2002 - The Arthur Andersen accounting firm was sentenced to five years probation and fined $500,000 for obstructing a federeal investigation of the energy company Enron.

2008 - The iTunes Music Store reached 200 billion television episodes sold.

October 16 Birthdays

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Noah Webster 1758

Oscar Wilde 1854

David Ben-Gurion 1886

Eugene O'Neill 1888

Linda Darnell 1921

Bert Kaempfert 1923

Angela Lansbury 1925

Gunter Grass 1927

Charles Colson 1931

Tony Anthony 1937

Nico (Velvet Underground) 1938

Barry Corbin 1940

Fred Turner (Bachman Turner Overdrive) 1943

Dwight Douglas Lewis 1945

Suzanne Somers (Mahoney) 1946

Bob Weir (Grateful Dead) 1947

Bob Collyard 1949

Tim Robbins 1958

Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet) 1959

Flea (Red Hot Chili Peppers) 1962

Wendy Wilson (Wilson Phillips) 1969

B-Rock (B-Rock and the Bizz) 1971

Kellie Martin 1975

Jeremy Jackson 1980

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1679 - Composer Jan Dismas Zelenka was born.

1821 - Composer Albert Franz Doppler was born.

1951 - Little Richard held his first recording session in Atlanta, GA.

1954 - Elvis Presley made his first radio appearance on the "Louisiana Hayride."

1956 - The Elvis Presley film "Love Me Tender" premiered.

1957 - "You Send Me," by Sam Cooke, was released by Keen Records.

1965 - The Beatles were decorated with the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth.

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1966 - Joan Baez and 123 other anti-draft demonstrators were arrested for blocking the entrance to the Armed Forces Induction Center in Oakland, CA.

1968 - The New Yardbirds played their first concert. The band later changed their name to Led Zeppelin.

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1971 - Isaac Hayes' "Theme From Shaft" was released.

1972 - A statement was released by Creedance Clearwater Revival that announced the group's break up.

1976 - Stevie Wonder's "Song in the Key of Life" was released.

1982 - RCA Records released "H2O" by Daryl Hall and John Oates.

1989 - The single "The Arms Of Orion" was released by Prince.

1992 - Sinead O'Connor was booed off stage at Madison Square Garden during a show to honor Bob Dylan. 

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valentine's day October 15 History, Events, Famous Birthdays, Music History, Notable Passings

October 15 History, Events, Famous Birthdays, Music History, Notable Passings

October 15 History

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1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte began his exile on the remote island of St. Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.

1844 - German philosopher Friedich Wilhelm Nietzsche was born.

1860 - Grace Bedell, 11 years old, wrote a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln. The letter stated that Lincoln would look better if he would grow a beard.

1883 - The U.S. Supreme Court struck down part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875. It allowed for individuals and corporations to discriminate based on race.

1892 - The U.S. government announced that the land in the western Montana was open to settlers. The 1.8 million acres were bought from the Crow Indians for 50 cents per acre.

1914 - The Clayton Antitrust Act was passed by the U.S. Congress.

1917 - Mata Hari was executed by a French firing squad. Hari was a Dutch dancer that had spied for Germany.

1931 - "Cat and the Fiddle" opened in New York for the first of 395 performances.

1937 - "To Have and Have Not" by Ernest Hemingway was published for the first time.

1939 - New York Municipal Airport was dedicated. The name was later changed to La Guardia Airport.

1945 - Pierre Laval, the former premier of Vichy France, was executed for treason.

1946 - Hermann Goering, a Nazi war criminal and founder of the Gestapo, poisoned himself just hours before his scheduled execution.

1951 - "I Love Lucy" premiered on CBS-TV.

1953 - "Teahouse of the August Moon" opened on Broadway. It ran for 1,027 performances.

1962 - The Cuban Missile Crisis began. It was on this day that U.S. intelligence personnel analyzing data discovered Soviet medium-range missle sites in Cuba. On October 22 U.S. President John F. Kennedy announced that he had ordred the naval "quarantine" of Cuba.

1964 - It was announced that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had been removed from power. He was replaced with Alexei N. Kosygin.

1966 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill creating the Department of Transportation.

1973 - "Tomorrow" debuted on NBC-TV.

1983 - U.S. Marines killed five snipers who had pinned them down in Beirut International Airport.

1989 - South African officials released eight prominent political prisoners.

1989 - Wayne Gretzky, while playing for the Los Angeles Kings, surpassed Gordie Howe's NHL scoring record of 1,850 career points.

1993 - U.S. President Clinton sent warships to enforce trade sanctions that had been imposed on Haitian military rulers.

1993 - South Africa's President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress President Nelson Mandela were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end the apartheid system in South Africa.

1997 - British Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green broke the land-speed record by driving a jet-powered car faster than the speed of sound.

1997 - The Cassini-Huygens mission was launched from Cape Canaveral, FL. On January 14, 2005, a probe sent back pictures of Saturn's moon Titan during and after landing.

1998 - Typhoon Zeb killed 24 people and drove 100,000 more from their homes when it hit the Philippines.

1998 - The U.N. condemned the U.S. economic embargo on Cuba for the seventh year in a row.

1998 - James Woods received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

2001 - NASA's Galileo spacecraft passed within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.

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Friedrich Nietzsche 1844
Mule (George) Haas 1903
John Kenneth Galbraith 1908
David Carroll 1913
Jan Miner 1917
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. 1917
Robert Walker 1918
Mario Puzo 1920
Lee Iacocca 1924
Jean Peters 1926
Peter Haskell 1934
Linda Lavin 1937
Barry McGuire 1937
Marv Johnson 1938
Dick Lotz 1942
Penny Marshall 1942
Don Stevenson (Moby Grape) 1942
Jim Palmer 1945
Victor Banerjee 1946
Richard Carpenter (The Carpenters) 1946
Roscoe Tanner 1951
Tito Jackson (The Jackson 5) 1953
Jere Burns 1954
Tanya Roberts 1955
Sarah Ferguson 1959
Mark Reznicek (Toadies) 1962
Ginuwine 1970

October 15 Music History

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1775 - Composer Bernhard Henrik Crusell was born.

1905 - Composer Dag Ivan Wiren was born.

1955 - "Grand Ole Opry" premiered on ABC-TV.

1955 - Buddy Holly opened a show for Elvis Presley in Lubbock, TX.

1968 - Led Zeppelin made its performance debut in England.

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1971 - Rick Nelson was booed when he performed new material at an oldies show.

1973 - The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a 1971 Federal Communications directive that broadcasters censor from the airwaves songs with drug-oriented lyrics.

1976 - Ike and Tina Turner split their musical act.

1977 - "Slip Slidin' Away," by Paul Simon, was released.

1987 - Jerry Garcia, of the Grateful Dead, opened a series of solo shows on Broadway.

1996 - Tommy Lee (Motley Crue) was charged with attacking a cameraman that was trying to take pictures of him and his wife Pamela Anderson Lee.

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1997 - Patricia Ann Richardson filed suit against Snoop Doggy Dogg, his former manager Sharita Knight, and Death Row Records for allegedly tricking her into transporting packages of marijuana to a venue where Snoop Doggy Dogg was performing.

1998 - MCA Records Inc. filed a breach-of-contract lawsuit against New Edition members Ralph Tresvant, Johnny Gill, Ricardo Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronald DeVoe for alleged failure to deliver albums.

1998 - Puff Daddy played his first U.K. show. 

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valentine's day Book Signing Event at Gump’s: Orlando Diaz-Azcuy

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Counterclockwise from bottom right: Diane Dorrans Saeks(author of Orlando Diaz-Azcuy from Rizzoli Books), Orlando Diaz-Azcuy (iconic Architect and Designer), Marta Benson (CEO of Gumps), and me.

I was so lucky to be invited to the book debut party at Orlando Diaz-Azcuy by Diane Dorrans Saeks in San Francisco last Thursday! The book is wonderful, and I am a long time admirer of Mr. Diaz-Azcuy, so was so happy to be able to have my copy signed by both this brilliant architect/designer and the book’s author.

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Beautiful Lilacs at the signing table

We drove from Sacramento that afternoon to downtown San Francisco, and hurriedly walked over to Gumps from the parking garage, and who should I spy immediately upon walking in? Designer, Scot Meacham Wood from Tartanscot blog! We had made a plan to meet, but had never met before. I could spot this very handsome blogger right away. He is as charming in person as he is on his blog.

The party was in full swing when we arrived, but we were very happy to wait in line while looking at all of the spectacular creations of Andrew Fisher of Fisher Weisman . The coffee table in the photo below is just one example:

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Another piece with bronze legs and exotic wood veneer:

valentine's day I am sure I spotted Grant Gibson, designer and blogger in line ahead of us, but alas, missed meeting him. (We have since touched base and will try to meet up after his trip to Venice!) After getting our books signed we had to tour Gumps to see what beautiful new treasures had been added since our last visit. We found this gorgeous table setting upstairs: valentine's day

I loved the black lacquer chairs! The smoky glass wine and water glasses were perfect with the pewter linen table cloth and place settings.

Another table with striking candelabras:

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And the new furniture vignettes definitely give one design ideas to dream about:

After our upstairs looksee, it was back downstairs for more sightseeing. While I was looking at the newest from John Derian:

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I ran into my old friend David Duncan Livingston, amazingly talented photographer and one of the main photo contributors to the Orlando Diaz-Azcuy book. Please do check out his website. You will no doubt recognize many of his photos from some of your favorite magazines. Oh! And he also has a blog here. (Great music too!)

David snapped this shot of me and my friend Lise who came with me. He also took the picture of Diane Dorrans Saeks, Marta Benson, CEO of Gumps, Orlando Diaz-Azcuy and me up at the top of the post. (It seems I have a thing or two to learn from David.)

valentine's day The event was so much fun and it was an honor to meet one of my design heroes: Mr. Diaz-Azcuy. Thank you so very much to the gracious Diane Dorrans Saeks and Marta Benson for the most kind invitation. It was a wonderfully memorable evening!

valentine's day Academy Awards Green Room: Architectural Digest Selects Stephen Shadley

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A Little bird from Architectural Digest let me in on something:

Architectural Digest has chosen AD100 interior designer Stephen Shadley to create the signature Architectural Digest Greenroom at the 81st Annual Academy Awards.

AD Editor-in-Chief Paige Rense comments: “Stephen Shadley is an appropriate choice to design the AD Greenroom at this year’s Oscars, especially because several of his clients--including Diane Keaton, Woody Allen and Robert Altman--are movie legends. Stephen’s work melds classic and contemporary for a glamorous conclusion.”

The Green Room will be styled in "Seventies Modern" and will feature Baker Furniture, an 1100 pound bar constructed from one-of-a-kind Concetto Surface Art "Forza" by CaesarStone, and a lush shag rug by Karastan.

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Mr. Steven Shadley

Mr. Stephen Shadley has been on the AD100 list for many years, and it is easy to see why. A prolific designer, Shadley has developed long time friendships with many of his very well known clients. Diane Keaton has been a friend for over 30 years.

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Architectural Digest, April 2005, Photo by Tim Street-Porter

At least two of her homes by Shadley have graced the cover of AD. Designed in the California Monterey or Spanish Colonial style, Both homes house an impressive collection of Monterey furniture, pottery and art: Catalina and Bauer pots, landscapes by Maynard Dixon, Frank Tenney Johnson, Edgar Payne and Carl Oscar Borg. This home is a 1920's Bel Air house set on an acre of land. Shadley transformed it from a non-descript remodeled home to a vintage Spanish work of art.

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Photo by Tim Street Porter

Diane's office converted from what was once the garage. Amazing bulletin board of "Diane's visuals". Old factory table becomes a desk.

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Sitting Room off the stair all. Photo by Tim Street Porter

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Architectural Digest, July 1999. Photo by Tim Street Porter

This is the cover of my well worn AD July 1999 issue featuring another Keaton house by Shadley. Mr. Shadley restored this Wallace Neff house in Beverly Hills from the untouched original with restraint and care. Many of the original light fixtures were preserved in the process. Classic in every sense....it still retains it's style in the ten years since the magazine was issued.

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Photo by Tim Street-Porter

Monterey "Buckaroo" chair, a photograph by David Wojnarowicz, and Bauer pots. Sconce is original to the house.

Shadley also had a hand in creating the modern "barn" for Keaton near the Hudson River in New York. While a completely different style, there is a similarity in the sculptural spareness to the objects in the space.

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A grouping of Eames chairs dot the all white interior of the space.

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The black and white color palette creates a gallery-like atmosphere.

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Photos by Michael Mundy

Love the ethereal star-like quality of the pair of modern chandeliers between the trusses.

Mr. Shadley has a very broad scope of talent, as is apparent when one jumps from this modern barn to the restoration of a 1928 South Carolina Craftsman bungalow.

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Architectural Digest, June 2006, Photo by Steven Brooke

Asian antiques mix with Arts and Crafts furnishings in this clean and classic interior.

Mr. Shadley has a way of creating comfort and interest in such a beautiful way without adding too much. His designs are always clear and classic. Evidenced by his portfolio on his website here, I have included a few more images for your viewing pleasure:

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Private Residence in Upstate New York. Photo by Steve Gross and Sue Daley

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Home of Cari and Matthew Modine, Greenwich Village. Photo by Jaime Ardiles-Arce

Congratulations to Mr. Shadley! And to Architectural Digest for picking such a talent. I look forward to seeing the realization of his creative vision for the Academy Awards Green Room this year!

valentine's day Cosmo Cafe Opening

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I have been working on the design for a new Sacramento restaurant, Cosmo Cafe, for the last few months, and had the pleasure of attending the Grand Opening Night Event last Thursday night. The Cosmo Cafe is part of the larger Cosmopolitan building which is also home to the Cosmopolitan Cabaret and the soon to be opening Social nightclub. I thought you all might like to take a peek:

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Of course there were Cosmos

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And lots of friends and familiar faces.

Kerry Ellis (don't you just love that name?!?!), lighting designer extraordinaire of Benning Design Associates, worked to get the lighting design just right. And Sean from Lumens Light and Living helped us with supplying the decorative light fixtures.

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Stacy Paragary of Paragary Restaurant Group, proprietress and wonderful client, had fun with Bruce Benning, owner of Benning Design Associates.

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And here I am in my role as Senior Designer for Benning Design, with my good friend Kate of Girl Meets Glamour blog.

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Good friends Leanne and Nicole. In the back round you can see the back lighted photo of K Street in Sacramento that I had enlarged showing the original exterior of the restaurant building in it's previous mid-century incarnation as Woolworth's.

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I met Kevin Johnson, former NBA Star and perhaps the future Mayor of Sacramento. November 4th will tell!

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The crowd was swelling early into the evening helping to kick off a great first night.

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Cool congas (Thanks MER!) were played.

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Diners were enjoying the sumptuous menu.

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The Sacramento Hotel, shown here, was the original occupier of the corner of 10th and K Streets. I created niches lined with back painted glass to showcase historical buildings on and around K Street.

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For the bigger groups, there is a private dining room with a view to the kitchen.

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Cocktails and friends made it an evening to remember.

So, if you are looking for a very "Cosmopolitan" way to spend an evening, don't miss dinner at Cosmo Cafe before seeing a show at the Cosmopolitan Cabaret!