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TODAY - Dec 03, 2024

Thought of the Day

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Today's Birthday

Gilbert Charles Stuart
Gilbert Charles Stuart Painter, American(1755)

An American painter who is regarded as one of America's foremost portraitists.

 
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad Novelist, British(1857)

An English novelist who is regarded as one of the greatest novelist whose books include Lord Jim and Heart of Darkness.

 
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Dr. Rajendra Prasad Politician, Indian(1884)

An Indian politician and lawyer who served as the first President of the Republic of India.

 
Andy Williams
Andy Williams Singer, American(1930)

An American popular-music singer. In his career he recorded 44 albums.

 
Jean L Godard
Jean L Godard Director, French(1930)

An innovative French director.He worked as a film critic for Cahiers du cinema. With a motion-picture camera of 35-millimeter he made his first short films series. His first length film was A bout de souffle.

This day in History

1818

Illinois enters the Union as the 21st state.

1935

Eleanor Roosevelt dedicates the first low-income housing project in New York City.

1967

The first heart transplant operation performs in South African by surgeon Christiaan Barnard. Louis Washkansky, the patient survives for 18 days.

1984

A pesticide plant owned by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India, suffers a gas leak and, as a result, more than 3,800 people are killed.

1833

In Oberlin, Ohio, Oberlin Collegiate Institute, becomes the first college to enrol women and men on equal terms, opened, with an enrolment of 29 men and 15 women.

Man who made the difference

Jean L Godard (1930)

Jean L Godard

An innovative French director was born on December 3, 1930 in Paris, France in Paris. He worked as a film critic for Cahiers du cinema. With a motion-picture camera of 35-millimeter he made his first short films series. His first length film was A bout de souffle. In this film he displayed his skill as an innovative director and later his techniques became part of his characteristic style. His unusual camera angles, lengthy philosophical discussions and improvised dialogues established him as the most influential figure of the French nouvelle vague (new wave) movement. Godard's other works included Le petit soldat (The Little Soldier), Une femme est une femme, (A Woman Is a Woman), The Married Woman (Une femme mariee), Masculin-Feminin, Helas pour moi (Woe Is Me), Nouvelle vague Every Man for Himself and Weekend. In 1980, he also entered in film production.


Author : Dr. Nidhi Jindal