February 11
It's February 11th
1896 – Oscar Wilde’s Salome premiered in Paris while Wilde was imprisoned. It was also the first play Wilde composed in French, saying that the language added more color to the text.
1903 – Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria
1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot" (This film is lost)
1989 Former Laker girl Paula Abdul scores her first #1 hit in America with "Straight Up."
1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
2000 – Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-99 to conduct the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
Birthdays:
Kelly Rowland
Matthew Lawrence
as Frank Stein in "Boltneck" aka "Teen Monster"
Roc Marciano
D'Angelo
Damian Lewis
on Tubi
Carey Lowell
as Maxine in "Down Twisted" aka "The Treasure of San Lucas"
Catherine Hickland
as Linda Sullivan in "Witchery"
Wesley Strick
Philip Anglin
as Vedek Bareil
as Harvey in "Malone"
Derek Shulman
Joy Williams
"Escapes"
Alan Rubin
Otis Clay
Gerry Goffin
Burt Reynolds
as Gator in "White Lightning"
Phillip Walker
Tina Louise
as Claire Delaney in "Hell Riders"
as Ginger Grant in "Gilligan's Island"
Roy De Forest
Leslie Nielsen
as Mr. Hammond in
"Prom Night
Kim Stanley
as Myra Savage in "Séance on a Wet Afternoon"
Billy Halop
as Tommy in "Dead End"
Daniel F. Galouye
"Dark Universe"
Eva Gabor
as Claire Ormond in "The Mad Magician"
Sidney Sheldon
Josh White
Matt Dennis
Joseph L Mankiewicz
Claire Myers Owens
"Awakening to the Good"
Carlo Carrà
"Funeral of the Anarchist Galli"
"I found myself unwillingly in the centre of it, before me I saw the coffin, covered in red carnations, sway dangerously on the shoulders of the pallbearers; I saw horses go mad, sticks and lances clash, it seemed to me that the corpse could have fallen to the ground at any moment and the horses would have trampled it. Deeply struck, as soon as I got home I did a drawing of what I had seen."— Carrà
Ellen Day Hale
"Self Portrait"
"Lillies"
Elsa Beskow
"Children of the Forest"
Henry Fox Talbot
Latticed window at Lacock Abbey, August 1835. A positive from what may be the oldest existing camera negative.
1896 – Oscar Wilde’s Salome premiered in Paris while Wilde was imprisoned. It was also the first play Wilde composed in French, saying that the language added more color to the text.
1903 – Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria
1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot" (This film is lost)
1989 Former Laker girl Paula Abdul scores her first #1 hit in America with "Straight Up."
1997 – Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope.
2000 – Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched on STS-99 to conduct the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission.
Birthdays:
Kelly Rowland
Matthew Lawrence
as Frank Stein in "Boltneck" aka "Teen Monster"
Roc Marciano
D'Angelo
Damian Lewis
on Tubi
Carey Lowell
as Maxine in "Down Twisted" aka "The Treasure of San Lucas"
Catherine Hickland
as Linda Sullivan in "Witchery"
Wesley Strick
Philip Anglin
as Vedek Bareil
as Harvey in "Malone"
Derek Shulman
Joy Williams
"Escapes"
Alan Rubin
Otis Clay
Gerry Goffin
Burt Reynolds
as Gator in "White Lightning"
Phillip Walker
Tina Louise
as Claire Delaney in "Hell Riders"
as Ginger Grant in "Gilligan's Island"
Roy De Forest
Leslie Nielsen
as Mr. Hammond in
"Prom Night
Kim Stanley
as Myra Savage in "Séance on a Wet Afternoon"
Billy Halop
as Tommy in "Dead End"
Daniel F. Galouye
"Dark Universe"
Eva Gabor
as Claire Ormond in "The Mad Magician"
Sidney Sheldon
Josh White
Matt Dennis
Joseph L Mankiewicz
Claire Myers Owens
"Awakening to the Good"
Carlo Carrà
"Funeral of the Anarchist Galli"
"I found myself unwillingly in the centre of it, before me I saw the coffin, covered in red carnations, sway dangerously on the shoulders of the pallbearers; I saw horses go mad, sticks and lances clash, it seemed to me that the corpse could have fallen to the ground at any moment and the horses would have trampled it. Deeply struck, as soon as I got home I did a drawing of what I had seen."— Carrà
Ellen Day Hale
"Self Portrait"
"Lillies"
Elsa Beskow
"Children of the Forest"
Henry Fox Talbot
Latticed window at Lacock Abbey, August 1835. A positive from what may be the oldest existing camera negative.
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