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Sidney Poitier KBE (/ ˈpwɑːtjeɪ / PWAH-tyay; [1] February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first Black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. [2] He received two competitive Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and a Grammy Award ...
The University of Sydney as viewed from Parramatta Road in the early 1870s. The Sydney University Regiment forming a guard of honour for the visit of the Duke of York (later George VI) to the university in 1927. In 1848, William Wentworth, a University of Cambridge alumnus, and Sir Charles Nicholson, a University of Edinburgh Medical School ...
Victor Peter Chang AC (born Chang Yam Him; 21 November 1936 – 4 July 1991) was a Chinese-born Australian cardiac surgeon and a pioneer of modern heart transplantation in Australia. His murder in 1991 stunned Australia and is considered one of the most notorious in the country's history. [1][2] Chang was given a state funeral, and in 1999 he ...
Hampden–Sydney College (H-SC) is a private liberal arts men's college in Hampden Sydney, Virginia.. Founded in 1775, Hampden–Sydney is the oldest privately chartered college in the Southern United States, the tenth-oldest college in the US, the last college founded before the American Declaration of Independence, and the oldest of the four-year, all-male liberal arts colleges remaining in ...
Sydney Brenner CH FRS FMedSci MAE (13 January 1927 – 5 April 2019) [13] [14] was a South African biologist. In 2002, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with H. Robert Horvitz and Sir John E. Sulston . [ 10 ]
Sidney Myer (born Simcha Myer Baevski (Сімха Маер Баеўскі); 8 February 1878 – 5 September 1934) was a Belarusian-born Australian businessman and philanthropist, best known for founding Myer, Australia's largest chain of department stores.
The history of the city began with the arrival of a First Fleet of British ships in 1788 and the foundation of a penal colony by Great Britain. From 1788 to 1900 Sydney was the capital of the British colony of New South Wales. The town of Sydney was declared a city in 1842, and a local government was established.
First Australian medical school established at Sydney University. 1857 Wreck of Dunbar at The Gap kills 121. Fitzroy Dock dry dock completed on Cockatoo Island Dockyard. St Vincent's Hospital founded by Sisters of Charity. St John's College, Sydney University founded. Construction of Fort Denison completed. Australian Museum opened to the ...