Lucien Laurin - Lucien Laurin Lucien Laurin, born March 18, 1912 in Joliette, Quebec, Canada - died June 26, 2000 at Key Largo, Florida, was a French-Canadian jockey and Hall of Fame thoroughbred horse trainer. Laurin’s career in thoroughbred horse racing began in 1929 as a jockey in Montreal, Quebec. After riding 161 race winners, in 1942 he began working as a trainer in New England, a job that would span 45 years and take him to the very pinnacle of horse racing success. While working for two different stables, he trained Quill, the 1958 two-year-old filly champion, and his other horses won numerous important Stakes races, including the 1966 Belmont Stakes. His son, Roger Laurin, worked as a trainer at Meadow Stable and when he accepted an offer.
History of Quebec sovereignist movement - the MSA and the RN created the Parti Québécois (PQ). René Lévesque was elected president and Gilles Grégoire vice-president. On October 26 Pierre Bourgault, leader of the RIN, dissolved the party and invited its members to join the PQ. Jacques Parizeau joined the party on September 19, 1969, and Jérôme Proulx of the Union nationale did the same on November 11 of the same year. At the 1970 provincial election on April 29, the PQ elected its first seven members of the National Assembly: Robert Burns, Claude Charron, Guy Joron, Camille Laurin, Marcel Léger, Lucien Lessard, and Charles Tremblay. René Lévesque was defeated in Mont-Royal by the Liberal André Marchand. The PQ elected 71 candidates in 1976, to the general astonishment of all of Quebec and Canada. With one of the.
1912 - vitamins. The first blues song, "The Memphis Blues," is published. Year in topic 1912 in art 1912 in film 1912 in literature 1912 in music 1912 in sports Births January 7 - Charles Addams, cartoonist January 8 - José Ferrer, actor (†1992) January 14 - Rudolf Hagelstange, German lyricist, narrator and essayist (†1984) January 16 - Franz Tumler, Austrian narrator (†1998) January 28 - Jackson Pollock, painter, initiator of Dripping painting (†1956) January 30 - Barbara W. Tuchman, historian (†1989) February 6 - Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's mistress (†1945) February 11 - Roy Fuller English poet/novelist. February 11 - Rudolf Firkusny Napajedla, Czechoslovakian, pianist. February 18 - Heinz Kühn, politician (†1992) February 19 - Stan Kenton, musician (†1979) February 20 - Pierre Boulle,.
2000 - (23) defeat Tennessee Titans (16) March 26 - The Seattle Kingdome is imploded to make room for a new stadium. 2000 in television Survivor premieres on CBS sparking a trend of "reality TV". Many copy-cat programs follow. The show was based on the Swedish game show, Operation Robinson. Historical Relic and Ancient Remain Gardenss in Suzhou, China were added to the list of the World Heritage Sites. The Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, China were listed by the UNESCO among the World Heritage Sites. Births May 20- Leo Blair, son of the Rt Hon Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Cherie Booth QC. Deaths January 4 - Tom Fears, American football star January 10 - Sam Jaffe, actor January 18 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, 102, Austrian architect January 19 -.
2000 in sports - results: Australian Open - Andre Agassi French Open - Gustavo Kuerten Wimbledon championships - Pete Sampras US Open - Marat Safin Grand Slam in tennis women's results: Australian Open - Lindsay Davenport French Open - Mary Pierce Wimbledon championships - Venus Williams US Open - Venus Williams Davis Cup - Spain wins 3-1 over Australia in world tennis General sporting events Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia Embassy World Snooker Championship: Mark Williams won 18-16 over Matthew Stevens Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race Champion: Doug Swingley won with lead dogs: Stormy & Cola Births Deaths Abercrombie - harness racing horse January 4 - Tom Fears, American football player January 26 - Don Budge, tennis player February 12 - Tom Landry, American football coach February 14 - Tony Bettenhausen 48, CART racing.
Secretariat - at Meadow Farms Stables in Caroline County, Virginia. - Secretariat - Trained by Canadian Lucien Laurin and ridden by fellow Canadian jockey Ron Turcotte, he won the 1973 Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes, making him the first Triple Crown winner in a quarter of a century, long enough that many racing fans had thought it would never happen again. Secretariat's race records in the Derby and the Belmont stand to this day; his run in the Belmont is not only a race record, but the world record for a mile and a half on a dirt track. He set a new speed record in each of the Triple Crown races, the only horse in history to do so. His winning margin of more than 31 lengths in the long.
Ron Turcotte - apprentice jockey he rode Windfield's great Northern Dancer to his first victory. Turcotte soon found himself working with trainer Lucien Laurin at the racetrack in Laurel, Maryland. In 1972 he rode Riva Ridge to victory in the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes. Ron Turcotte became internationally famous in 1973 when he rode Secretariat to the first Triple Crown win in 25 years. A winner of the George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award, Ron Turcotte was North America's leading stakes-winning jockey in 1972 and 1973. His career ended in 1978 following a tumble from his horse during a race at Belmont Park that left him a paraplegic. Ron Turcotte was immediately inducted in the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1979. On August 23, 1980, he was inducted into.
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame - Edward Garrison Avelino Gomez Bill Hartack Sandy Hawley Julie Krone Johnny Longden Chris McCarron Walter Miller Laffit Pincay, Jr Bill Shoemaker Gary Stevens Ron Turcotte Nash Turner Bobby Ussery Jacinto Vasquez Trainers in the Hall of Fame: Laz Barrera Frank Childs William Duke Thomas Healey Max Hirsch LeRoy Jolley Lucien Laurin D. Wayne Lukas Horatio Luro Henry McDaniel W. F. Mulholland Woody Stephens Frank Whiteley, Jr Charles Whittingham.
List of Canadians - winner in economics Tuzo Wilson - Geophysicist. plate tectonics For a more detailed list of renowned Canadian scientists, including Nobel Prize winners, see the outside link: http://www.science.ca/scientists/scientists.php Sports Personalities Donovan Bailey, (born 1967), sprinter Jean Béliveau, (born 1931), ice hockey player Marilyn Bell, first person to swim Lake Ontario Tommy Burns, (1881-1955), World Heavyweight boxing Champion Myriam Bédard, (born 1969), Olympic Gold Medal Don Cherry, ice hockey coach and commentator George Dixon (1870-1909), first black World boxing champion Catriona LeMay Doan, (born 1970), two-time Olympic gold medalist in speed skating Eric Gagne, (born 1976), baseball player, Los Angeles Dodgers closer, 2003 National League Cy Young Award Marc Gagnon, (born 1975), Olympic Gold medalist Nancy Greene, (born 1943), Olympic Gold Medal in Downhill Skiing Wayne Gretzky, (born 1961), ice hockey legend Ned.
Charles Lucien Bonaparte - Charles Lucien Bonaparte Charles Lucien Bonaparte (May 24, 1803 - July 29, 1857) was a French naturalist and ornithologist. He was the son of Lucien Bonaparte and nephew of Emperor Napoleon. Bonaparte was raised in Italy and travelled to the United States in 1820 shortly after marrying his cousin Zenaida. Before leaving Italy he had already discovered a warbler new to science, the Moustached Warbler, and on the voyage he collected specimens of a new storm-petrel. On arrival in the United States he presented a paper on this new bird, which was later named after Alexander Wilson. Bonaparte then set about updating Wilson's American Ornithology, and the revised edition was published between 1825 and 1833. In 1824 Bonaparte tried to get the then unknown John James Audubon.
Louis Lucien Bonaparte - Louis Lucien Bonaparte Louis Lucien Bonaparte (January 4, 1813 - November 3, 1891) was the third son of Napoleon's second surviving brother, Lucien Bonaparte. He was born at Thorngrove, Worcestershire, England. A philologist and politician, he spent his youth in Italy and did not go to France until 1848, when he served two brief terms in the Assembly as representative for Corsica (1848) and for the Seine (1849). Louis Lucien Bonaparte died at Fano, Italy..
Lucien Bonaparte - Lucien Bonaparte Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, born May 21, 1775 at Ajaccio, Corsica, was brother to Emperor Napoleon. Educated in France, Lucien returned to Corsica in 1789 and became an outspoken speaker in the Jacobin Club at Ajaccio. As president of the Council of Five Hundred at Saint-Cloud, Lucien Bonaparte was responsible for Napoleon's election as consul on November 10, 1799. Later though, he would oppose many of Napoleon's ideas. His first wife was Christine Boyer, the illiterate sister of an innkeeper, and by her he had four children, one of whom was stillborn. His second wife was Alexandrine de Bleschamp, widow of Hippolyte Jouberton, known as "Madame Jouberton", and by her he had ten children, including: Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte Louis Lucien Bonaparte Jules Laurent.
Lucien Bouchard - Lucien Bouchard Lucien Bouchard, born on December 22, 1938 in Saint-Coeur-de-Marie, Quebec, is a Canadian lawyer and separatist politician who was Premier of Quebec from 1996-2001. Bouchard graduated from Jonquière Classical College in 1959 and then went on to obtain a Bachelor's degree in social science and a law degree at Laval University in 1964. He served as the chairman of the "Yes" side during the 1980 referendum on Quebec sovereignty. In 1988 he was appointed ambassador to France. He then joined Brian Mulroney's cabinet as secretary of state and later minister of the environment (1988-1990). While still a strong Quebec nationalist, he and Mulroney thought that with a new constitutional arrangement Quebec's position within Canada could be improved. In 1990, annoyed at the failure of.
Lucien Anatole Prevost-Paradol - Lucien Anatole Prevost-Paradol Lucien Anatole Prevost-Paradol (August 8, 1829 - July 20, 1870), French man of letters, was born in Paris, France. He was educated at the College Bourbon and entered the École Normale. In 1855 he was appointed professor of French literature at Aix. He held the post, however, barely a year, resigning it to become a leader-writer on the Journal des débats. He also wrote in the Courrier du dimanche, and for a very short time in the Presse. His chief works are Essais de politique et de litterature (three series, 1859-1866), and Essais sur les moralistes français (1864). He was, however, rather a journalist than a writer of books, and was one of the chief opponents of the empire on the side of.
Lucien (Sandman) - Lucien (Sandman) In an Americann comic, Lucien is the Librarian in the Library of Dream of the Endless in the comic book The Sandman. He is the effective keeper of The Dreaming in Dream's absence, who's primary function is to protect the Library, wherein are contained all the books that are drempt of, but never written. We learn of several of the titles of these books, a more complete list of which can be found in the Invisible Library, which lists fictional books. External Links A Picture of Lucien.
Jane Birkin - the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, later HRH the Duke of Windsor). She is also related by blood or marriage to the actresses Penelope Dudley Ward and Rachel Ward as well as the film director Sir Carol Reed. Charlotte Gainsbourg is Birkin's daughter from her relationship with Serge Gainsbourg (né Lucien Ginzburg), whom she met in 1968 and lived with until 1980. She also has a daughter, Kate Barry (born 1968), from her first marriage to John Barry (they separated in 1968 and later divorced), an English composer who wrote the theme to the James Bond movies. Birkin has another daughter, Lou (born 1982), by film director Jacques Doillon..
Jan Guillou - a Swedish spy scandal to the public, for which he was put in prison for ten months. Jan Oscar Sverre Lucien Henri Guillou was born in 1944 in Södertälje. He worked as a journalist for the Folket i Bild - aktuellt in 1966 and 1967 and co-founded the Folket i Bild - Kulturfront magazine, for which he wrote between 1970 and 1977. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The IB affair 2 Coq Rouge 3 Crusades trilogy 4 Ondskan 5 Anna Holt The IB affair In 1973, Folket i Bild - Kulturfront published a series of articles written by Guillou and Peter Bratt that revealed that Sweden had a secret illegal military intelligence agency (Informationsbuerau or IB for short), similar to the CIA and even spying on Sweden's citizens for political purposes..
Jacques Parizeau - by Pierre-Marc Johnson, but in 1987 Johnson also left office. Parizeau, still a widely liked figure, was elected to replace him on March 19, 1988. In Parizeau first election as leader in 1989 the PQ did not fare well, but five years later in 1994 they won a convincing majority government. Parizeau promised to hold a referendum on Quebec sovereignty within a year of his election and despite many objections he followed through on this promise. In the beginning sovereignty was sitting at only about 40% support in the polls, but as the campaign wore on the "Yes" side grew larger. This growth halted, however, and Parizeau came under pressure to hand more of the campaign over to Bloc Québécois leader Lucien Bouchard. Parizeau agreed, and as the campaign progressed lost.
Jean Cocteau - directed, were particularly important in introducing surrealism into French cinema. Cocteau is best known for his 1929 novel Les Enfants Terribles, the 1934 play The Infernal Machine, and the 1945 film, Beauty and the Beast. In 1955 he was made a member of the Académie française and The Royal Academy of Belgium. During his life Jean Cocteau was commander of the Legion of Honor, Member of the Mallarmé Academy, German Academy (Berlin), American Academy, Mark Twain (U.S.A) Academy, Honorary President of the Cannes film festival, Honorary President of the France-Hungary Association and President of the jazz Academy and of the Academy of the Disc. In the 1930s, Cocteau had an affair with Princess Natalie Paley, the beautiful daughter of a Romanov grand duke and herself a major fashion-plate, sometime actress, model,.
Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie - he entered the public service during the administration of General Dumouriez. Driven from it in 1795, he was restored by Lucien Bonaparte, during whose time of office he served as secretary to the prefecture of the Upper Marne. He then definitely resigned public employment and devoted himself to the study of Greek. In 1809 he was appointed deputy professor of Greek at the faculty of letters at Paris, and titular professor in 1813 on the death of PH Larcher. In 1828 he succeeded JB Gail in the chair of Greek at the College de France. He also held the offices of librarian of the Bibliotheque du Roi, and of perpetual secretary of the Academie des Inscriptions. Boissonade chiefly devoted his attention to later Greek literature: Philostratus, Heroica (1806) and Epistolae (1842).
