This evening begins the Easter Triduum, (aka Holy Triduum, Paschal Triduum, or The Three Days,) the period of three days that begins with the liturgy on the evening of Holy Thursday and ends with Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday.
Today is National Caramel Popcorn Day - enjoy!
It's also Sorry Charlie Day. The day is dedicated to remind us that we have all been rejected, and yet somehow survived it.
Celebrate this day by taking a minute to remember a past rejection. After doing this, be happy and realize the fact, that most of us, will not end up in a tuna can.
April 6, 1906 -
J. Stuart Blackton premiered his animated film Humorous Phases of Funny Faces on this date. It is generally agreed upon that this is the first animated cartoon.
Despite the film’s rough use of simple animated chalkboard drawings, the film is a technologically revolutionary achievement.
April 6, 1936 -
Flash Gordon: The Planet of Peril, a film serial which tells the story of three people from Earth who travel to the planet Mongo to fight the evil Emperor Ming the Merciless, premiered on this date.
Despite its large budget, this serial utilized many sets from other Universal films, such as the laboratory and crypt set from The Bride of Frankenstein, the castle interiors from Dracula's Daughter, the idol from The Mummy and the opera house interiors from The Phantom of the Opera. In addition, the outer walls of Ming's castle were actually the cathedral walls from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
April 6, 1946 -
Another in the series of Daffy/ Porky cartoons, Daffy Doodles, premiered on this date.
This cartoon is the first full-length cartoon that animator Robert McKimson directed.
April 6, 1953 -
Universal Pictures released the science fiction comedy film Abbott and Costello Go To Mars, directed by Charles Lamont and starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, in U.S. theaters on this date.
A very young Harry Shearer appears as one of the boys seen near the beginning.
April 6, 1967 -
The Star Trek episode The City on the Edge of Forever premiered on this date. It has been considered the best episode of the series by fans, critics, and crew alike.
The episode was widely be considered controversial for a number of reasons, not the least is which is that the subtext of the storyline addresses issues surrounding the Vietnam-war movement, but the episode is most notable for using the the word “hell” for the first time on television in its parting line (delivered by Kirk), “Let’s get the hell out of here.”
April 6, 1974 –
Waterloo won the Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden on this date.
ABBA not only recorded this song in their native Swedish and then in English but they also recorded a version in French for the French markets and one in German for the German markets. There is also a version in both French and Swedish that is an overdubbing of both the Swedish and French versions.
April 6, 1984 -
Paul Mazursky's comedy-drama, Moscow on the Hudson, starring Robin Williams and Maria Conchita Alonso premiered in the US on this date.
In preparation for his role, for about a year, lead actor Robin Williams studied Soviet customs and learned the Russian language. Reportedly, Williams spent five hours a day learning Russian and had learned to speak it well within a month. By the time of principal photography, Williams was at a proficiency level where he could carry out a conversation.
April 6, 1992 -
RCA Records released Annie Lennox's debut solo studio album, Diva, in the UK, on this date.
Annie Lennox had plenty to write about when she started work on the Diva album: She had recently become a mother, her father had died, and she was just getting going as a solo artist.
April 6, 2009 -
J.J. Abrams reboot of Star Trek, starring Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto premiered in Austin, Texas on this date.
According to Karl Urban, who played Bones, the shooting were ULTRA-secret: "There is a level of security and secrecy that we have all been forced to adopt. It's really kind of paranoid crazy, but sort of justified. We're not allowed to walk around in public in our costumes and we had to be herded around everywhere in these golf carts that are completely concealed and covered in black canvas."
Another ACME Safety Film
Today in History:
April 6, 1327 -
Francesco Petrarch, former priest and foot fetisher, met Laura de Sade (the wife of Count Hugues de Sade, an ancestor of the Marquis de Sade) in a church at Avignon on this date, and was inspired for the rest of his life. He wrote his finest poems about her beauty and loveliness.
This event has been taken to mark the beginning of the Renaissance.
Now you know.
April 6, 1570 -
Raffaello Sanzio (Raphael) was an Italian master painter and architect of the Florentine school in High Renaissance, celebrated for the perfection and grace of his paintings. To celebrate his upcoming 37th birthday, Raphael got together with his girlfriend, Margherita and made hot monkey love. As is often the case, too much of a good thing can kill you.
So, on Good Friday, April 6, 1570, attempted to get out of bed after a night of excessive sex, Raphael fell into a fever. And not telling his doctors that this was its cause, given it was Good Friday, was given the wrong cure, which killed him.
April 6, 1868 -
To celebrate the 38th anniversary of the founding of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by Joseph Smith Jr. and the 8th anniversary of the the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints by Joseph Smith III (Joe Jr.'s son), Mormon prophet Brigham Young married 23-year-old Ann Eliza Webb on this date.
All I can say is - it's hard enough to keep one woman moderately happy - imagine the amount of energy it takes to keep 19 women amused.
On this day in 1895, Oscar Wilde was arrested in room 118 of the Cadogan Hotel in London.
He was arrested for "gross indecency" i.e. sodomy.
April 6, 1896 -
The 1896 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad, were held in Athens, Greece starting on this date. These games were the first modern Olympic Games and the first Games since Roman emperor Theodosius I banned the Ancient Olympic Games in 393.
They were held between Monday, April 6 and Wednesday, April 15, 1896. Europeans were so enthusiastic about the revival of the Olympics, they didn't notice until four years later that the Summer Games were held in early spring.
April 6, 1909 -
A team lead by Robert E. Peary, Matthew A. Henson and four Inuit team members become the first men to reach the North Pole on this date. Arctic explorer Frederick A. Cook claims to have discovered the North Pole a year earlier, but the assertion will later be disproved. They established "Camp Jesup" allegedly within five miles of the pole.
The claim was disputed by skeptics and in 1988 the original navigational records were uncovered from the dog-sled voyage indicating that Peary probably never got closer than 121 miles from the North Pole. The first person to undisputedly reach the exact North Pole was Joseph Fletcher in 1952.
On this day in 1917, the United States formally declared war against Germany and entered World War I. At the time, the war had been going on in Europe for three years, but there was no real immediate threat to the United States.
Up until then, Woodrow Wilson had been opposed to the war. His campaign for president in 1916 included the slogan, "He kept us out of the war," though Wilson never used that phrase himself.
April 6, 1925 -
The first in-flight film was shown on an airplane (Imperial Airline) on a flight from London to Paris on this date.
The film was, The Lost World, the first science-fiction film (with early examples of stop-motion special effects) about prehistoric dinosaurs in a remote South American jungle. Given the plane’s wood frame and fabric hull, the actual film stock, which was extremely flammable, poses a significant danger on the flight.
April 6, 1930 -
Hostess Twinkies were invented by bakery executive James Dewar on this date.
Twinkies are back on the shelves and will probably be there long after we are all carried away by the next pandemic.
April 6, 1971 -
The Rolling Stones held a party in Cannes to unveil the launching of Rolling Stone Records on this date. The record label was created to promote the hits of The Rolling Stones.
Brown Sugar was the first hit by the Rolling Stones on the new label, followed by Wild Horses and Tumbling Dice.
April 6, 1994 -
The Rwandan Genocide began, on this date, with the assassination of Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana.
It lasted a little more than 100 days, but claimed over 800,000 lives. (It was very good news that Paul Rusesabagina was finally released.)
April 6, 1987 -
Al Campmpanis, the general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers appeared on ABC's Nightline to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his friend, Jackie Robinson's debut in baseball.
Unfortunately, he also gave his opinion that blacks "may not have some of the necessities" to hold managerial jobs in major-league baseball. Campanis ended up for his troubles, being fired over his remarks.
Oops.
April 6, 1998 -
Wendy O. Williams, former porn star and singer for The Plasmatics, killed herself with a gun near her Connecticut home on this date.
Please crank this up to 11 in her honor.
And so it goes.
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