Tonite watched BORSALINO with Belmondo and liked it
There is a college named after William & Mary in the beautiful Yorktown , Virginia .Gorgeous campus . Adolf Eichmann trial starts . Maybe someday a war crimes trial for Netanyahu ?
Pope John the 23rd.Learned about him when I was becoming a Roman Catholic. His heart as in the right place & he made many needed reforms .
Ahmed Ben Bella .New to me .Saw how he was hated in France for being a revolutionary in Algeria. At the end of his life he looked like one of the older professors who gathered at a friend's coffee place back home.
Oleg Cassini . Dramatic looking and fashion industry giant !
Erskine Caldwell. He did a great job of making poor white southerners ( me ) look like animals
1961 – Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first crewed orbital flight, Vostok 1.
1992 – The Euro Disney Resort officially opens with its theme park Euro Disneyland; the resort and its park's name are subsequently changed to Disneyland Paris.
1943 – World War II: The discovery of mass graves of Polish prisoners of war killed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government-in-exile in London and the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility.
1948 – In an ambush, 78 Jewish doctors, nurses and medical students from Hadassah Hospital, and a British soldier, are massacred by Arabs in Sheikh Jarrah. This event came to be known as the Hadassah medical convoy massacre.
2003 – U.S. troops in Baghdad capture Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner MS Achille Lauro in 1985. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Achille_Lauro
2014 – Boko Haram abducts 276 girls from a school in Chibok, Nigeria.[29]
1912 – The British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20 a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,224 passengers and crew on board survive.
1927 – Gaston Leroux, French journalist and author (The Mystery of the Yellow Room; The Perfume of the Lady in Black; The Phantom of the Opera) (b. 1868)
Some wonderful names included in this list Shaliby, although I didn't know who most of them were their names were definitely notable.
I loved the Titanic film, Leonardo DiCaprio was so handsome when that film was made, and Kate Winslet was good in her role too. It must have been so terrifying for the passengers to know the ship was sinking and their chances of being saved were slim. I'm sure if I ever went on a cruise I'd insist of wearing my life jacket at all times
1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Culloden
= BIRTHS= 1646 – Jules Hardouin-Mansart, French architect (probable;[ d. 1708)
Peter Ustinov had an amazing voice and was a brilliant story teller.
There isn't a film directed by David Lean that I don't adore. Great Expectations 1949 and In Which We Serve 1942 with Noel Coward are a few of my favourites.
I never realised that Madame Tussauds has been going for so long. I really thought the wax works was a modern commercial idea
1961 – Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
The 3 years since Prince Phillip died have whizzed by - thank goodness things have moved on since the Covid restrictions that were in place at the time.
I know it's just her name, and she died before they were even launched, but I do enjoy Linda McCartney burgers & sausages!
I didn't know that there had been a previous Martin Luther, and The Diet of Worms intrigued me. He married a nun who he had helped escape. Devout to his beliefs too.
Can't believe that V Beckham will only be 50 this year, she has been around forever.