Conan & Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead) Visit A Korean Spa
He also could be the palest man in America.
Boo! It's Friday the 13th. In most large cities in the United States, many building don't have 13th floors. In Japan, they don't have 4th floors, because the word for four sounds similar to the word for DEATH! The modern basis for Friday the 13th phobia dates back to Friday, October 13, 1307.
On this date, the Pope Clement in Conjunction with the King Philip of France secretly ordered the mass arrest of all the Knights Templar in France. The Templars were terminated (burned to a crisp) for apostasy, idolatry, heresy, "obscene rituals" and homosexuality, corruption and fraud, and secrecy, never again to hold the power that they had held for so long.
Those wacky Knights were such party animals.
It's National Tortellini Day
And it has something to do with Venus di Milo's belly button
February 13, 1932 -
The Our Gang short, Free Eats premiered on this date. This marked the introduction of George "Spanky" McFarland to the Our Gang comedies.
He and his brother Tommy auditioned for Our Gang in the Spring of 1931, with Spanky passing a screen test easily. Tommy also appeared in many Our Gang film in bit roles.
February 13th, 1966 -
The Rolling Stones returned for their third appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show on this date.
Their performances had been taped the day before.
February 13, 1972 -
Bob Fosse's film version of the musical Cabaret, starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey premiered on this date.
Liza Minnelli designed all her own hair and make-up with the help of her father, famed musical director Vincente Minnelli.
Today in History:
On February 13, 1542, Henry VIII of England's Vth wife, Catherine Howard, was executed for adultery on this date.
Given the track record of Henry's other wives, one would have figured out marrying Henry was not a career with a lot of advancement possibilities.
On February 13, 1883, German composer and posthumous Hitler idol Richard Wagner, best known for writing the soundtrack to Apocalypse Now, died on this date.
Almost exactly eleven years later (February 12, 1894), Hans von Bulow, German pianist and composer, and the first husband of Wagner's wife Cosima, also died on this date.
February 13, 1945 -
An estimated 135,000 people, mostly women and children, died in the firebombing of the 13th-century city of Dresden, a revenge bombing that had no real military justification, which had begun on this date.
Kurt Vonnegut was one of just seven American prisoners of war in Dresden to survive, in an underground meatpacking cellar known as Slaughterhouse Five.
February 13, 1950 -
... Jacques the Monkey! Jacques the Monkey!...
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