Project101010: 09: 1964 Tokyo Olympics
The 1964 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, was held in Tokyo, Japan in 1964. 93 countries. 5140 athletes (683 women). 19 sports. 163 events. These games were also the first to be telecast internationally. Yoshinori Sakai, who lit the Olympic Flame, was born in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, the day an atomic bomb was dropped on that city. Info sourced from JOC, Wikipedia and Kiat.net. Creative direction: Vernon Chan, Art direction & design, Copywriting: Vernon Chan If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for...
read moreProject101010: 07: Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang Kai-shek (October 31, 1887 – April 5, 1975) was a political and military leader of 20th century China. He was an influential member of the nationalist party Kuomintang (KMT) and Sun Yat-sen’s close ally. He became the Commandant of Kuomintang’s Whampoa Military Academy and took Sun’s place in the party when the latter died in 1925. In 1928, Chiang led the Northern Expedition to unify the country, becoming China’s overall leader. He served as chairman of the National Military Council of the Nationalist Government of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1928 to 1948....
read moreProject101010: 06: Anita Mui
Anita Mui Yim-fong (10 October 1963 – 30 December 2003) was a popular Hong Kong singer and actress. She was also the younger sister of Hong Kong singer, Ann Mui. During her prime years she made major contributions to the cantopop music scene, while receiving numerous awards and honours. She remained an idol throughout most of her career, and was generally regarded as a cantopop diva. Mui once held a sell-out concert at Hammersmith, London, England, where she was dubbed the “Madonna of Asia”. That title has stayed with her throughout her career, and has been used as a...
read moreProject101010: 05: Rumiko Takahashi
Rumiko Takahashi born October 10, 1957 is a Japanese mangaka. Takahashi is one of the wealthiest individuals, and the most affluent mangaka in Japan. The manga she creates (and its anime adaptations) are very popular in North America and Europe where they have been released as both manga and anime in English translation. Her works are famous worldwide, and many of her series were some of the forerunners of early English language manga to be released in the 1990s. Takahashi is also the best selling female comics artist in history; over 170 million copies of her various works have been...
read moreProject101010: O4: George Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985), best known as Orson Welles, was an American filmmaker, actor, theatre director,screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio. Welles first found national and international fame as the director and narrator of a 1938 radio adaptation of H. G. Wells’s novel The War of the Worlds performed for the radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. Citizen Kane (1941), his first film with RKO, in which he starred in the iconic role of Charles Foster Kane, is often...
read moreProject101010: 03: Smash Hits
Smash Hits was a pop music based magazine, aimed at teenagers and young adults and originally published in the United Kingdom by EMAP. It ran from 1978 to 2006 and was issued fortnightly for most of that time. The name survives as a brand for a related spin-off digital television channel, digital radio station, and website which have survived the demise of the printed magazine. In the 1990s the magazine’s circulation slumped and it was overtaken by the BBC’s spin off magazine Top Of The Pops. In July 2009 a one-off commemorative issue of the magazine was published as a...
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