On this day in history.

[scifan57]

December 16, 1917: Arthur Charles Clarke, British science fiction author, is born in Minehead, Somerset. <img src="http://www.ipadforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=51421"/> Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke

He is best known for co-writing the screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey.

 

[J. A.]

He is best known for co-writing the screenplay for 2001: A Space Odyssey.

That's certainly the reason why the movie is excellent. (And of course Kubrick as director, producer and co-writer.)

 

[J. A.]

December 20, 1988: German-speaking premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opéra" in the Theater an der Wien, Vienna/Austria.

 

[zstairlessone]

December 20, 1988: German-speaking premiere of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opéra" in the Theater an der Wien, Vienna/Austria.

Did you, by chance, get to see it?

 

[J. A.]

Did you, by chance, get to see it?

I'm afraid not! :-(
With two young children (daughter was 5 months), and building the house, there was neither time nor money for things like that.

 

[J. A.]

December 21, 1937: "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (world's first full-length animated feature) premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre, L. A., California.



Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_(1937_film)

 

[scifan57]

Here's the newsreel of the 1937 premiere.

 

[J. A.]

December 30, 1865: Joseph Rudyard Kipling, English short-story writer, poet, and novelist, is born.



Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling

 

[J. A.]

December 31, 1869: French artist Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse is born.




Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse

 

[J. A.]

January 1, 1863: Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin, is born. He founded the International Olympic Committee.




Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Coubertin

 

[J. A.]

January 4, 1900: James Bond is born.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_(ornithologist)

 

[tlbaker]

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The Macintosh turns 30: Going the distance

 

[zstairlessone]

This had a huge impact on California - James Marshall found a chunk of gold, (and a pretty nugget it was) that really helped bring people across the land and into the state, on January 24, 1848. In fact this is what brought on the gold rush in 1949. Many people in the state are still panning for gold today.

 

[J. A.]

January 29, 2005: Ephraim Kishon, Israeli satirist, dies in Appelzell, Switzerland.





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_Kishon

 

[zstairlessone]

January 29, 1942 - Iran signed the "Treaty of Alliance" with Great Britain and the Soviet Union offering protection to Iran with the intent of opening up a supply route from the West to Russia.