April 24

It's April 24th

On this day in 1895 – Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop Spray


In 1970 - Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane is invited to a tea party at the White House by Tricia Nixon, daughter of U.S. President Richard Nixon. Slick arrives at the party with Abbie Hoffman, who is on trial for conspiring to riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The pair (allegedly) planned to spike Nixon's tea cup with a heavy dose of LSD. Slick is recognized (although Hoffman is not) and told to leave because she is on the FBI list.

- Dong Fang Hong 1 is launched.


In 1976 - Saturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels makes an on-air offer to pay the Beatles $3000 to reunite live on the show. In a 1980 interview, John Lennon stated that he and Paul McCartney happened to be watching the show together at Lennon's apartment in New York and considered walking down to the SNL studio "for a gag" but were "too tired".

In 1995 - Aphex Twin releases "...I Care Because You Do"


Birthdays:

Mauro Pawlowski


Rory McCann
as Breca in "Beowulf and Grendel"


Aidan Gillen
as Karl in "Blackout"


Michael O'Keefe
as Jack Hays in "Fear"


Eric Begosian
as Christopher Neville in "Special Effects"

as Barry Champlain in "Talk Radio"


Ralph Winter


Nigel Harrison


Doug Clifford



Joe Henderson


John Williams


Jill Ireland
as Jill the waitress in "Hell Drivers"


Shirley MacLaine
as Nora Benson in "The Possession of Joel Delaney"


Bridget Riley
36 Artworks by or after Bridget Riley at the Art UK site
BBC Documentary
"Crest"
(Used as cover art for Faust - "The Faust Tapes" LP)
"Blaze II"


Richard_Donner

Buy or Rent "The Goonies"

Johnny Griffin


Ruth Kobart
as a nun in "Petulia"


Doris Burn


William Castle

"Mr. Sardonicus"
"The 13 Ghosts"
"Macabre"
"The Night Walker"

Józef Gosławski

Marceline Day
as Sally in "The Cameraman"

as Pearl Hope in "The King Murder"
as Faith Morgan in "The Wild Party"

Gabriel Figueroa


Willem de Kooning
"Abstraction"


Lyubov Popova
"The Pianist"


Jean Crotti


Nathaniel Hone the Elder
"The Conjuror"


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