Welcome to November, Roman Month #9-Novembrius Mensis.
Birthdays: Marie Antoinette, President Warren Harding, Stephen Crane, Edward van Sloan (Van Helsing in Dracula), Marcel Ophuls, Benevento Cellini, Larry Flynt, Walter Matthau, Fernando Valenzuela, Lyle Lovett, Willie D, Rick Allen of Def Leppard, animator Retta (Scott) Davidson, Jenny McCarthy is 52, Toni Collette is 52, animator Will Finn, director Brenda Chapman-Lima
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.
1835- Davey Crockett, after losing his bid for re-election to Congress, told his Tennessee voters, "Y’all can go to Hell, I'm going to Texas!"
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 threw 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.
1925- Gabriel Leuville, called Max Linder, was the first international movie star. Before the Great War, audiences flocked to see his suave debonair character. Before Chaplin, Lloyd and Keaton, Max Linder created the style of cinema slapstick comedy. When WWI broke out, he patriotically enlisted in the army. He survived the war, but the experience left him chronically depressed with PTSD. This day in Austria, Max Linder and his 18-year-old wife Corrine committed suicide together, leaving a 16 month old daughter.
1938- At Pimlico in Maryland, this day was the famous horse race between War Admiral and Sea Biscuit, the two finest thoroughbreds of the age. War Admiral was sleek and aristocratic, sired from the blood of the great champion Man of War. Sea Biscuit by contrast looked ungainly and lame. But in the end The Biscuit won the race by three lengths. The race was heard live on nationwide radio by one in three Americans.
1939- Rockefeller Center in New York City opened.
1946- THE FIRST NBA BASKETBALL GAME- The first professional game was the New York Knickerbockers 68, the Toronto Huskies 66. The first basket was scored by Ozzie Sheckmann.
1959- Hockey goalie Jacques LaPlante became the first to wear a face mask during play. Before this many young hockey goalies were missing their front teeth.
1967- Ever since the Congressional Hearings into EC comics in the 50s, comic books were regulated by a strict comics code. This day in San Francisco hippy cartoonists Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman and others bought their own printing press and began work on an underground comic book series called Zap Comix. Mr. Natural, Wonder Warthog and others result. They began selling them in Feb 1968. Zap Comix began the craze for Underground Comix, part of the Hippy Counterculture.
1968- To replace the outmoded Hays Commission Production Code, the Motion Picture Ratings System was introduced-"G, M, R, and X"- Later PG, PG-13, R and NC-17".
1978- The movie version of the bestselling book “Watership Down” premiered. Martin Rosen and John Hubley directing. John Hubley died after only completing the first ten minutes of the film.
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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