October 2nd, 2010 sat October 2nd, 2010 |
Quiz: What movie from Warner Bros was a hard-boiled detective story that was first going to be called” The Gent From Frisco.”-?
Yesterday’s Question answered below: Tony Curtis was laughed at for years over the line “ Yonder lies da castle of my fadduh.” In his thick Bronx accent. What movie was that from?
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October 2, 2010
Birthdays: Richard III, Nat Turner, Mahatma Ghandi, Claus Von Hindenburg, Ferdinand Foch, Spanky MacFarland, Julius Marx known as Groucho Marx, Bud Abbott, Moses Gunn, Graham Greene, LeRoy Shield (composer of the music in the Hal Roach comedies), Donna Karan, Gordon Sumner known as Sting is 59, Lorraine Bracco is 56, Tiffany, Kelly Ripa
1780- The Americans hang British Major John Andre' as a spy at a tavern near
present day Nyack New York. Andre' was Benedict Arnold's contact and had
put aside his redcoat to slip through American lines. He was arrested before
he could get back. Washington really wanted to trade Andre for Arnold if he could,
and the British were disgusted that Arnold refused to nobly offer himself in exchange.
The hangman chosen was a loyalist prisoner who was promised his freedom. It was
felt if the executioner was a Yankee, the man's family might be harmed in revenge.
1836-Charles Darwin on the HMS Beagle returned to Falmouth England, ending a five
year voyage to Brazil, the Galapagos and New Zealand. The knowledge he gained on
exotic flora and fauna would lead him to write the Origin of the Species.
1914- Charles Taze Russell, founder of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, predicted this day
would be the beginning of the Apocalypse and the End of the World. When nothing
happened, he responded that it was the beginning of a process of events that would
lead to the eventual end of the world. - oh.
1925-The first bright red Leyland doubledecker omnibuses appear on London streets.
1933- Library of Congress musicologist John Lomax met with an Arkansas chaingang
convict Hudlan Ledbetter, who everyone called Leadbelly. He recorded a cotton picking
work song of his called "the Rock Island Line'. Leadbelly became famous
and recorded his own version 3 years later. Lomax died in 2002.
1936- Mussolini attacked Ethiopia.
1937 - Ronald Reagan, just 26 years old, made his acting debut this day
with Warner Brothers release of "Love is in the Air".
1950- Charles Schulz's "Peanuts" comic strip debuts. Good ol'
Charlie Brown was the name of a fellow post office worker all the guy's liked
to play jokes on. Schulz's idea 'little folks' was initially rejected
by all the major comic syndicates. At the time of his death Charles
Schulz was arguably the richest visual artist on earth.
1954- Elvis Presley is fired from Nashville's Grand Ol' Opry Show after
one performance. He was told :"Son, you ain't a' going no where. Go
back to driving a truck!"
1955 - "Good Eeeeeeevening." The master of mystery movies, Alfred
Hitchcock, presented his brand of suspense to millions of viewers on CBS
on this night.
1957- Raintree County, the first film in Panavision.
1958- The Huckleberry Hound show.
1959- The television show the Twilight Zone debuts. Producer/writer Rod Serling
had fought network execs for months that a mystery-suspense show could compete with
all the Doctor and Cowboy shows on TV. He originally wanted Orson Welles to be
the host of the show but when Welles asked for too much money, Serling decided to
do it himself. He wrote 90 episodes. He said he got the name Twilight Zone from a
term airline pilots used for the area when both the clouds and ground are invisible
from view and you lose your bearings.
1967- Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African American to be a Supreme
Court Justice.
1967- San Francisco Police raid the Haight-Ashbury home of the rock band the Grateful
Dead, busting just about everyone there for possession of narcotics.
1977 - After a month following an attempt to steal the body of Elvis Presley from
Forest Hill Cemetery, both Presley's and his grandmother's bodies are moved
to Graceland.
1978- Future TV star Tim Allen was arrested in Kalamazoo Michigan for selling cocaine.
1985- Actor Rock Hudson died of AIDS. The first major celebrity to die of the disease.
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Yesterday’s Question answered below: Tony Curtis was laughed at for years over the line “ Yonder lies da castle of my fadduh.” In his thick Bronx accent. What movie was that from?
Answer: The Black Shield of Falworth, a 1954 movie based on Howard Pyle’s novel Men of Iron.