From History: Today's Famous Birthdays - 02/Aug/2018
Hi Steemians,
This is an effort to provide some information on Five selected famous personalities born on this day.
Courtesy of this information goes to onthisday.com, famousbirthdays.com and wikipedia.org and image source is mentioned under "Source" just below each image.
1. Mary-Louise Parker
Mary-Louise Parker is an American actress and writer who is a 2 time Golden Globe Award winner.
She has acted on stage, television and films and has acted in movies like Prelude to a Kiss, Grand Canyon, Fried Green Tomatoes, The Client, Boys on the Side.
Since 2007, she has been writing to Esquire magazine with her articles.
She is a winner of 2 Golden Globe Awards, a Tony Award, a Primetime Emmy Award to her credit.
2. Shimon Peres
Shimon Peres was an Israeli politician and ninth President of Israel and 2 time Prime Minister apart from being an Interim Prime Minister in his political career spanning over 70 years.
He was co-winner of Nobel Peace Prize along with Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat in 1994 for their efforts on peaceful talks with Palestinian leadership as part of Oslo Accords.
He was instrumental in Israel-Jordan peace treaty and was regarded as among one of the founders of Israel technology sector.
He was honoured with Legion of Honour, Presidential Medal of Freedom from United States President Barack Obama in 2012, Congressional Gold Medal apart from the Nobel Peace Prize.
3. Simone Manuel
Simone Manuel is an American swimmer who mainly competes in sprint freestyle.
She is a winner of 2 gold medals(100 m freestyle and 4X100 m medley) and 2 silver medals(50 m freestyle and 4 X 100 m freestyle relay) in 2016 Rio Olympics.
She became first African American to win an individual gold medal in 100 m freestyle.
She has also won 7 gold medals and 2 bronze medals in World Championships.
4. Ángel Herrera Vera
Ángel Herrera Vera is a Cuban boxer who back to back gold medals in 1976 Montreal and 1980 Moscow Olympics although under different categories Featherweight and Lightweight respectively.
Besides Olympic medals, Vera also won 2 gold medals in 1978 and 1982 World Championships and a silver in 1983 Pan American Games.
He was champion from 1976 to 1982 and won almost all the matches he competed during that time.
5. Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi
Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi was a French sculptor and designer of Statue of Liberty.
He worked as squadron leader during French-Prussian War and also as a liaison officer to Giuseppe Garibaldi and his trip to United States in 1871 gave him an idea of gifting a massive statue from French government to Americans for their centennial independence celebrations and led to the sculpture of Statue of Liberty.
Besides Status of Liberty, he worked on Fontaine de l'Amiral Bruat, Fontaine Schwendi, Monument du Général Rapp, The Lion of Belfort to name a few.
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I bet most people don't even know who designed the Statue of Liberty! I didn't. Cool!
Yeah, it's like exploring on someone for me as well, I too learn while I write these blogs. :)
Thanks for the comment and upvote, appreciate that :)
These posts are so cool! Thank you
Thank you @rossfletcher, when I was not having any topics to write, I just happen to see about Birthday of an Indian spiritual leader and that paved way for me to start this daily blog since almost an year. :)
Thanks for visiting, have a good day :)
I used to post musicians birthdays on facebook and some actors too. It was fun. I could never find good photo's i liked so i started taking photo's of them on TV. I still post those on instagram. Yours are much broader scope and really great
Thank you, I use to download photos directly from google, but I came to know from qurator registration team that I am suppose to use images which are copy right free and hence, I started using commons.wikimedia.org and if I don't get images there, I will use pixabay or some other royalty free images site, google or some other website will be my last option. Although I want to increase it to 10 people per day, but it's not that every day I get 10 good people and also time is a constraint for me because of additional responsibilities I have taken on Steemit.
Anyways, nice to know about you and hope we can be in touch in future, I will go through your blogs as well soon to explore on your interests :)
Thank you. I know it's not always easy to take time to look at everything! :)
I'm not sure what steemit thinks about taking your own stills from motion pictures. I know from some copyright law that it's ok. It's probably not very helpful for what you're doing and i'm probably just confusing the issue.