February 3
It's February 3rd
On this day in 1637 – Tulip Mania collapses within the Dutch Republic.
1863 – Samuel Clemens used his pen name “Mark Twain” for the first time in the Virginia newspaper, Territorial Enterprise.
1918 – The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet long.
1966 - Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.
1984 - STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
1989 - "Wild Thing" by Tone Loc becomes the first rap single certified Platinum, with sales of over a million.
1997 - David Bowie releases "Eartling"
Birthdays:
Daddy Yankee
Tim Heidecker
"An Evening with Tim Heidecker"
Isla Fisher
as Rebecca in "London"
Sarah Kane
"The Work of Sarah Kane" (Part 1)
"The Work of Sarah Kane" (Part 2)
Warwick Davis in "Ashens and the Quest for the Gamechild"
as a Psychic in "The Unbroken"
Maura Tierney
as Cecilia in "The Linguini Incedent" (Director's Cut)
Michele Greene
as Robyn in "Fugitive Mind"
Lol Tolhurst
Lee Renaldo
Nathan Lane
as Harold in "The Vanishing of Sidney Hall"
Pamela Franklin
in "Necromancy"
in "Satan's School for Girls"
Morgan Fairchild
in "I Was a Teenage Faust"
and "Seduction"
Melanie
Stephen McHattie
as Robert in
Dave Davies
Paul Auster
"The Invention of Solitude"
_________________________
Blythe Danner as Lily Frischer in "To Kill a Clown"
Victor Buono
in "Moonchild"
Billy Meier
"A Beamship Floating Beside a Tree"
Johnny "Guitar" Watson
Juan Carlos Calabró
John Fiedler
as Pop in The Deathmaster
Henry Heimlich
From the early 1980s, Heimlich advocated malariotherapy, the deliberate infection of a person with benign malaria in order to treat ailments such as cancer, Lyme disease and HIV. As of 2009 the treatments were unsuccessful, and attracted criticism as both scientifically unsound and dangerous. The U.S. FDA and CDC have rejected malariotherapy and, along with health professionals and advocates for human rights, consider the practice "atrocious".
Joey Bishop
as Harry Goldman in "The Delta Force"
Simone Weil
"Reading Simone Weil in the Age of TikTok"
"Simone Weil: An Anthology"
Mabel Mercer
Norman Rockwell
"Freedom from Fear"
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Carl Theodor Dreyer films on the Criterion Channel
On this day in 1637 – Tulip Mania collapses within the Dutch Republic.
1863 – Samuel Clemens used his pen name “Mark Twain” for the first time in the Virginia newspaper, Territorial Enterprise.
1918 – The Twin Peaks Tunnel in San Francisco, California begins service as the longest streetcar tunnel in the world at 11,920 feet long.
1966 - Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.
1984 - STS-41-B is launched using Space Shuttle Challenger.
1989 - "Wild Thing" by Tone Loc becomes the first rap single certified Platinum, with sales of over a million.
1997 - David Bowie releases "Eartling"
Birthdays:
Daddy Yankee
Tim Heidecker
"An Evening with Tim Heidecker"
Isla Fisher
as Rebecca in "London"
Sarah Kane
"The Work of Sarah Kane" (Part 1)
"The Work of Sarah Kane" (Part 2)
Warwick Davis in "Ashens and the Quest for the Gamechild"
as a Psychic in "The Unbroken"
Maura Tierney
as Cecilia in "The Linguini Incedent" (Director's Cut)
Michele Greene
as Robyn in "Fugitive Mind"
Lol Tolhurst
Lee Renaldo
Nathan Lane
as Harold in "The Vanishing of Sidney Hall"
Pamela Franklin
in "Necromancy"
in "Satan's School for Girls"
Morgan Fairchild
in "I Was a Teenage Faust"
and "Seduction"
Melanie
Stephen McHattie
as Robert in
Dave Davies
Paul Auster
"The Invention of Solitude"
_________________________
Blythe Danner as Lily Frischer in "To Kill a Clown"
Victor Buono
in "Moonchild"
Billy Meier
"A Beamship Floating Beside a Tree"
Johnny "Guitar" Watson
Juan Carlos Calabró
John Fiedler
as Pop in The Deathmaster
Henry Heimlich
From the early 1980s, Heimlich advocated malariotherapy, the deliberate infection of a person with benign malaria in order to treat ailments such as cancer, Lyme disease and HIV. As of 2009 the treatments were unsuccessful, and attracted criticism as both scientifically unsound and dangerous. The U.S. FDA and CDC have rejected malariotherapy and, along with health professionals and advocates for human rights, consider the practice "atrocious".
Joey Bishop
as Harry Goldman in "The Delta Force"
Simone Weil
"Reading Simone Weil in the Age of TikTok"
"Simone Weil: An Anthology"
Mabel Mercer
Norman Rockwell
"Freedom from Fear"
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Carl Theodor Dreyer films on the Criterion Channel
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