🚔 #0TD in #Film #History 5 April 1974, #StevenSpielberg's theatrical feature directorial debut THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS, starring #GoldieHawn and #WilliamAtherton, opened in LA.
🎶 Here began the great long-running collaboration between #Spielberg and composer #JohnWilliams.
Max Ernst died #0TD 50 years ago. Nowadays you're more likely to comes across his (third) wife Dorothea Tanning in exh than him, but this very scholarly sounding show in Berlin looks at them both www.smb.museum/en/exhibitio...
LS Lowry died #0TD fifty years ago. Not a huge amount of commemoration, although of course you can always find his work in Salford, but MK Gallery are putting on a show later this year mkgallery.org/event/l-s-lo...
#0TD 80yrs ago Bristol Old Vic 'The Beaux Stratagem' by George Farquhar, February 19, 1946. #YvonneMitchell, along with company members Pamela Brown, William Devlin, Kenneth Connor, Faith Brook, Nora Nicholson, Noel Williams, and Robert Samson, inaugurated a new era in provincial theatre. #bristol
#0td in 1995, Morrissey performs Jack The Ripper, Live at Corn Exchange, Cambridge UK.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVoT...
Star Trek: Voyager-Caretaker
While on the trail of vanished Maquis, the USS Voyager is pulled to the far side of the galaxy.
One doctor and nurse for a ship?
Check out my thoughts on the pilot episode Caretaker now!
#MovieReview #0TD #StarTrekVoyager #MovieSky #FilmSky #TelevisionSky
John Singer Sargent born #0TD 1856. He's on a roll at the moment, with recent big exhs in London, NY and a sell out just finished in Paris. It's not just society portraits - you can find out more @dailyartmagazine.bsky.social www.dailyartmagazine.com/john-singer-...
Today is Saturday 10 January 2026
It is Houseplant Appreciation Day 🌵
also
💡Cut Your Energy Costs Day
French Republican Calendar: GYPSUM
#OTD 80 years ago, The United Nations General Assembly convened for the first time, in Westminster Central Hall, London.
#0TD 10 years ago, David Bowie died.
#0TD seventy-fours years ago Robert Langton Douglas died in Fiesole. A distinguished historian of Sienese art, he was buried in Siena "the land so loved by him." #cemetery #memorials #taphophile #photography #photo #cemeteryphotography #photo
His biography in: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...
Achille Beltrame illustration for La Domenica del Corriere Sep 24 1916 - Oct 1 1916
1/2 🧵 Italian one-legged cyclist and #wwi hero, 33-year-old Enrico Toti was denied service but evades military police and joins an Italian offensive against Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was KIA #0TD Aug 6 1916. Before dying he shouted: "Nun moro io!" ( I do not die!) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_...
#0td in 1992, 9 July, Morrissey was playing at Leysin in Switzerland, and thanks to Handsome Devil & Passions Just Like Mine, wonderful audio & show notes were preserved
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5tj...
#0TD in 1969 rare pictures from the #StonewallRiot (Christopher Street, NYC)
#0td in 2015, Morrissey played an epic Madison Square Garden show in New York, with Blondie as guest
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Duho...
weallwantsomeone.org/2015/07/08/m...
#0TD 2023 #Elemental voices of Leah Lewis, Mamoudou Athie, Ronnie del Carmen, Shila Ommi, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Catherine O'Hara Directed by Peter Sohn computer-#animated #romantic #comedy-#drama trophyunlocked.blogspot.com/2023/09/elem...
He began writing for newspapers and dabbled in teaching, then gravitated toward poetry and spent years writing the epic that became Leaves of Grass. It was praised by well-known writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, though others called it obscene. Whitman continuously edited Leaves of Grass until his death in 1892.
It is the birthday of the poet who wrote,
“Resist much, obey little.”
Walt Whitman was born on this day in 1819.
#BookSky #Writers #Poets #Poetry #History #0TD
#0TD 20.5.1941
In einem Befehl an alle Staatspolizeistellen erwähnt Reinhard Heydrich zweimal "die zweifellos kommende Endlösung der Judenfrage".
Quelle: Wolfgang Benz, Der Holocaust, S. 31.
No slouch, #0td 13 years ago, Japanese fans were treated to a Morrissey show on 19 April 2012 at Zepp Sendai
passionsjustlikemine.com/live/moz-g12...
From it is preserved on video, Japanese flag drape n' all, the wonderful song, There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buyp...
#0td 19 years ago, Morrissey appeared at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland on April 15, 2006, during the European leg of his Tour Of The Tormentors
It was recorded live, enhanced by PJLM's review
www.passionsjustlikemine.com/live/moz-g06...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9F6...
#0td in 1341 humanist Petrarch was crowned Poet Laureate on the Capitoline Hill.He wrote about plague,but w/a few changes:"Will posterity believe that there was a time when w/o the lightning of heaven or the fires of earth, w/o wars or visible slaughter, that an Orange Buffoon brought us to ruin?"
#0td 25 years ago, Morrissey completed his Oye Esteban tour with a concert at the Metropolitan, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
(He played there again, in November, in 2015)
passionsjustlikemine.com/live/moz-g00...
#0td 16 years ago, a Morrissey concert took place in the Aragon Ballroom, Chicago (IL).
Some songs made it to video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sdK...
God bless PJLM, as ever
passionsjustlikemine.com/live/moz-g09...
Also #0td in 2009, Morrissey took to the stage of Eagles Ballroom, Milwaukee (WI), US
PJLM noted proceedings
passionsjustlikemine.com/live/moz-g09...
At least some songs were recorded including
First of the Gang to Die
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjed...
#0TD, on January 21st, 2021, a reboot of Walker Texas Ranger premiered on the CW, available to be streamed all over the United States, now just titled Walker. /1
www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
#0TD in 1419, #Rouen surrendered to Henry V, leading to a brutal siege. Ppl were reduced to eating dogs,cats,horses & mice & dying in the street."Good" Prince Hal went on to conquer Normandy in 1419. He destroyed part of Rouen's convent, leading some of its friars to sympathize w/#JoanofArc in 1431.
#0TD 1989 GDR marks 40th anniversary: "For state and party leader Erich Honecker the anniversary was to be the crowning of his almost two decades as Party leader. But instead ... it was the occasion for the most serious crisis the GDR had seen."