February 24

It's February 24th

On this day in 1876 – The stage première of Peer Gynt, a play by Henrik Ibsen with incidental music by Edvard Grieg, takes place in Norway.
"Peer Before the King of Trolls" From a 1936 edition of the play, illustrated by Arthur Rackham

In 1973 - Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly With His Song" hits #1


In 2008 - A statue of Bon Scott is unveiled in his hometown of Fremantle, Australia.


Birthdays:

Mitch Hedberg
"An Escalator Can Never Be Broken"

Billy Zane
on Tubi
"Cappuccino Amaretto


Emilio Rivera
on Tubi

Beth Broderick
as Zelda Spellman in "Sabrina the Teenage Witch"

Mark Moses
on Tubi

Judith Butler
"Your Behavior Creates Your Gender"

Mike Pickering
DJ Set playlist

Plastic Bertrand


Helen Shaver
as Vivian Bell in "Desert Hearts"


Debra Jo Rupp


Dennis Waterman
as Simon Carlson in "Scars of Dracula"



Edward James Olmos
on Tubi

Rupert Holmes



Barry Bostwick
on Tubi

Jenny O'Hara
as Wendy Derleth in "Wishmaster"


Celia Kaye
as Woman in bathtub in "Rattlers"

as Sandra in "Vampire at Midnight"


Paul Jones



Joanie Sommers


James Farentino
as Sherrif Dan Gillis in "Dead & Buried"


John Vernon
as Jonathan Stryker in "Curtains"


Barbara Lawrence
as Vera Hunter in
"Kronos"


Emmanuelle Riva
as Elle in "Hiroshima mon amour"

as Barny in "Léon Morin, Priest"


Richard Hamilton


Abe Vigoda


Weldon Kees
"Collected Poems"



Richard Thorpe
on Tubi

Marjorie Main
on Tubi

Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
"Fantasy - Fairy Tale"

"Composition"


Winslow Homer
"Girl in a Hammock"

Samuel Lover
"Selected Writings"
"The Kelp Gatherers"


Johan Christian Dahl
"View towards Vesuvio from Quisisana"


Charles Le Brun
"Daedelus and Icarus"

"Three lion-like heads"


Cherubino Alberti
"Giove bacia Ganimede"

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