Question: The capitol city of the Roman empire was Rome. The capitol city of the Parthian/Sassanid empire was Ctesiphon. What city was the capitol of the Kingdom of Macedon?
Question Answered below: At the end of the movie Casablanca, Capt Renault tells Rick of his cousin in Brazzaville who could arrange their letters of transport. What is Brazzaville today?
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History for 9/21/2024
Birthdays: Louis Joliet of the explorers Marquette & Joliet, Chuck Jones, Gustav Holst, H.G. Wells, Stephen King, Cecil Fielder, Rob Morrow, Jay Ward, Larry Hagman, Ricky Lake, Fanny Flagg, Ethan Coen of the Coen Brothers, Leonard Cohen- not one of the Coen Brothers, Ron Cobb, Faith Hill, Jerry Bruckheimer, Nicole Richie is 44, Bill Murray is 74
1897- The famous column by Frank Church in Joseph Pulitzer's New York World first appeared with the answer to 8 year old Virginia O’Hanlon’s question: "...and yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus..."
1915- The archaeological treasure Stonehenge was sold at auction to a barrister named Sir Cecil Chubb, who promptly donated it to the British nation. His wife thought he had gone to that auction to buy some chairs.
1917- The Gulf Between, the first film shot in Technicolor.
1938- This day the Long Island Express- A force 3 Hurricane slammed into New England killing 600. The Boston area was hit with 120 mile an hour winds and downtown Providence was flooded under 13 feet of water.
1945- Disney short "Hockey Homicide" the first Sport-Goofy directed by Jack Kinney.
1948- the first Texaco Star Theater television show featuring a nightclub comedian named Milton Berle. Berle’s antics make him a major star and with Arthur Godfrey’s show help grow television from a scientific curiosity to the entertainment every household had to have. For ten years the U.S. public never missed Uncle Miltie on TV.
1957- The Perry Mason TV show with Raymond Burr premiered.
1961- The Washington Senators baseball club played its last game before moving to Texas to become The Texas Rangers. They lost. The US capitol would not have a hometown team again until the Nationals in 2005. Pundits would say,” Washington! First in War. First in Peace. Last in the American League.”
1970-first ABC Monday Night Football - Cleveland Browns defeated the NY Jets led by Broadway Joe Namath, 24-21. Announcers- Keith Jackson, Howard Cosell and retired Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dandy Don Meredith.
1970- On his birthday 20 year old Bill Murray was at O’Hare Airport waiting for a plane, when he joking told another passenger he had two bombs in his suitcase. An airline attendant overheard him and called the police. They didn’t find any bombs, but they did find a bag of marijuana. He was charged a misdemeanor. Dropped out of college, His older brother got him a tryout at Chicago’s Second City Improv comedy club.
1985- “Money for Nothing” by Dire Straights hit #1 in the Billboard charts. Writer Mark Knopfler overheard two workmen in an electronics store making fun of celebrities on MTV and wrote the conversation down. The early CG animation done by London company Mainframe for the video was groundbreaking. It was done on a Bosch FGS 4000, described by one of the artists as “ A huge expensive beast designed to do weather graphics.”
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