Birthdays: Marie Antoinette, President Warren Harding, Stephen Crane, Marcel Ophuls, Benevenuto Cellini, Larry Flynt, Walter Matthau, Fernando Valenzuela, Lyle Lovett, Willie D, Rick Allen of Def Leppard, Jenny McCarthy is 49, Toni Collette is 49
To the ancient Romans this was the Feast of Pomona or Homona, Goddess of the Harvest. Her offerings were bright apples, a staple of the Roman diet. In the Early Christian Church they changed the name to the Feast of All Saints Day. The custom of bobbing for apples at Halloween comes from a pagan ritual.
1512- Michelangelo's Sistine Ceiling was open to the public for the first time.
1604- William Shakespeare's play "Othello the Moor of Venice" first performed.
1776- Mission San Juan De Capistrano founded on the California coast.
1895- Emil and Max Skladowsky set up a Bioscope Projector in Berlin's Wintergarden. The Birth of German Cinema.
1913- Notre Dame quarterback Gus Doreias throws the first "Forward Pass" to center Knute Rockne. The forward pass was the solution to a request to the coach of Notre Dame from Teddy Roosevelt to do something to make the game more mobile and less bone crunching. Parents were complaining to him about the injuries to their sons.
1920- The first issue of American Cinematographer.
1939- Rockefeller Center in New York City opened.
1946- THE FIRST NBA BASKETBALL GAME- The first professional game was the New York Knicks 68, the Toronto Huskies 66. The first basket was scored by Ozzie Sheckmann.
1968- To replace the outmoded Hays Commission Production Code, the Motion Picture Ratings System introduced-"G, M, R, and X"- Later PG, PG-13, R and NC-17".
1988- Jeff Goldblum married Gena Davis. They divorced several years later. They are both over 6 feet tall.
2003- Walt Disney’s feature Brother Bear opened in theaters.
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