While social securty cards were previously made of cardboard, the agency switched them up to banknote paper in 1983, which is that we still used today. Such as with currency, the material allows the SSA to implement a number of security features that deter counterfeiting. The blue colored marbled background tint is erasable, making any changes to the card well, obvious. Intaglio print has raised letter that can be felt if you touch them, and is used because it is notoriously hard to replicate.
Still doesn't make sense but now you know.
November 5, 1932 -
Hollywood's love of Oriental Exoticism reached it full flower when MGM released the film The Mask Of Fu Manchu, starring Boris Karloff and Lewis Stone premiered on this date.
In filming the scene where Fu Manchu injects his mind control drug into Terry Granville's neck, Boris Karloff actually pushed the syringe into a baked potato, which was lying on the table next to Charles Starrett's head, out of camera range. However, each time Karloff pressed the plunger down, the potato would explode. This happened on several takes, until Karloff and Starrett couldn't do the scene without laughing. Director Charles Brabin finally gave up and dismissed the two actors for the day, saying, "Never mind! We'll shoot it tomorrow morning!"
November 5, 1938 -
A very funny (but very un PC) B and W Looney Tunes Cartoon, Porky in Egypt, premiered on this date.
The camel steals the cartoon. Unfortunately, the camel never followed up his star turn in this one.
November 5, 1943 -
Robert Siodmak first feature for Universal Studios, Son of Dracula, from a script by his brother Curt and starring Lon Chaney, Jr., premiered on this date.
This is truly bizarre, and there's no precedent in the Universal "vampire lore": The second time Doc Brewster comes snooping around Dark Oaks, he discovers Alucard's/Dracula's coffin in the basement--- and in the coffin are chicken feathers--- and next to the coffin are chickens in cages.
November 5, 1953 -
Jean Negulesco romantic comedy, How to Marry a Millionaire, starring Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, William Powell, David Wayne, Rory Calhoun, and Cameron Mitchell premiered on this date. The film was 20th Century Fox's first film to be shot in the new CinemaScope wide-screen sound process, although it was the second CinemaScope film released by Fox after the biblical epic film The Robe.
According to Nunnally Johnson, Lauren Bacall (who was known as "Betty" to her friends) and Betty Grable became instant pals: "I don't think Betty Bacall and Betty Grable had ever met before," he said, " . . . but Betty Bacall fell in love with Grable and now thinks she's the funniest clown she ever had the pleasure of knowing. Which is not far from true. Miss Grable is a real hooligan, and is a fine salty, bawdy girl, without an ounce of pretense about her. In addition, she's giving a better performance than anything she ever did before."
November 5, 1956 -
The Nat King Cole Show debuted on NBC-TV on this date. The Cole program was the first of its kind hosted by an African-American.
In the 1956 season, the show had a 15-minute running time. It was expanded to a 30-minute segment in 1957. The show originally aired without a sponsor, but NBC agreed to pay for initial production costs; it was assumed that once the show actually aired and advertisers were able to see its sophistication, a national sponsor would emerge.Unfortunately, none did. Cole famously said of the doomed series, "Madison Avenue is afraid of the dark."
November 5, 1964 -
An unsung minor masterpiece, Seance on a Wet Afternoon, premiered in the US on this date.
In an early draft of the screenplay, Billy and Myra were both male, with Director Bryan Forbes planning to cast Alec Guinness and Tom Courtenay as the homosexual couple. Courtenay agreed to play the role but Guinness, however, turned it down. Forbes decided then to completely re-write the screenplay.
November 5, 1965 -
The classic French New Wave film Pierrot le Fou, directed by Jean-Luc Godard, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Anna Karina, premiered in France on this date.
Despite continual claims that Godard shot the majority of his films without scripts or preparation, actress Anna Karina has subsequently claimed that they were in fact very carefully planned out to the smallest of details, with an almost obsessive level of perfectionism.
November 5, 1966 -
The Monkees' Last Train To Clarksville topped the pop-singles charts on this date.
This was written by Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, a songwriting team who came up with many songs for the Monkees. They also wrote songs for Chubby Checker and Jay and the Americans. Boyce and Hart wrote this as a protest to the Vietnam War. They had to keep this quiet in order to get it recorded, but it is about a guy who gets drafted and goes to fight in the war. The train is taking him to an army base, and he knows he may die in Vietnam. At the end of the song he states, "I don't know if I'm ever coming home."
November 5, 1974 -
The Eagles hit, Best of My Love, was released on this date. It did not reach #1 spot until March 1, 1975.
This is one of several Eagles songs with a contribution from an outside writer. J.D. Souther, who also had a hand in Heartache Tonight, New Kid In Town, Victim Of Love and James Dean, wrote it with Glenn Frey and Don Henley.
November 5, 1988 –
The Beach Boys' (except for Brian, whose therapist Eugene Landy wouldn't let him participate, but that's another story,) single, Kokomo goes to No. #1 on the Billboard charts, on this date.
Brian Wilson was the creative force behind The Beach Boys, but he had nothing to do with this song. He released his first (self-titled) solo album that year and came out with the first single, Love And Mercy, three weeks before this was released. The album peaked at #54 in America.
November 5, 1993 -
James Ivory's masterful adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, Remains of the Day, starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, premiered on this date.
It was while shooting Mr. & Mrs. Bridge in Kansas City that Remak Ramsay, who was reading The Remains of the Day novel, while playing a part in the movie, gave the book to director James Ivory to read, thinking that its subject and setting might intrigue Ivory.
Don't forget to tune in to The ACME Eagle Hand Soap Radio Hour today
Today in History:
On November 5, 1492, Christopher Columbus wrote in his journal that, in the interior of Cuba, there was a great deal of land "sowed with a sort of beans and a sort of grain they call Mahiz, which was well tasted, baked, dried, and made into flour."
Given how things worked out for them, the Native people should have kept maize to themselves.
November 5, 1605 -
Remember, remember the 5th of November
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The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, or the Powder Treason, as it was known at the time, was a failed attempt by Guy Fawkes and a group of provincial English Catholics to kill King James I of England, his family, and most of the Protestant aristocracy in a single attack by blowing up the Houses of Parliament during the State Opening on this date.
The conspirators had also planned to abduct the royal children, (who were surprisingly Protestant, as well) not present in Parliament, and incite a revolt in the Midlands. the conspirators were captured before the plot could take place. They were all drawn and quartered.
On November 5th each year, people in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries and regions celebrate the failure of the plot on what is known as Guy Fawkes Night, Bonfire Night, Fireworks Night, Cracker Night or Plot Night by getting drunk and setting things on fire.
November 5, 1895 -
George B. Selden was a lawyer and inventor who was granted the first U.S. patent (Patent No. 549,160) for an automobile, which he invented in 1877.
Who knew?
November 5, 1895 -
On that same day, the Prince of Wales, shortly to become King Edward VII and master of almost one-fifth of the land area of the planet, was roused from a nap after a long afternoon of whore mongering and a heavy lunch, remarks in a speech, 'We are all socialists nowadays'.
November 5, 1911 -
Roy Rogers, singing cowboy (Happy Trails, Roy Rogers Show), was born on this date.
He was born as Leonard Franklin Slye in Cincinnati where his father worked in a shoe factory. He died in 1998 at age 86.
November 5, 1971 -
Elvis Presley kicked off a 15-date North American tour at the Metropolitan Sports Center in Minneapolis. Announcer Al Dvorin uttered the well known phrase: "Elvis has left the building" at the end of the show.
He was asked to make the announcement in an effort to quiet the fans who continued to call for an encore.
So now you know
November 5, 2007 -
China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, was launched on October 24, 2007, and successfully entered the Moon orbit on this date.
It orbited the Moon for more than one year as part of the first stage of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program.
Don't forget to set your clocks back tonight -
I'm never sure why you need to save daylight anymore, it seems to come whether or not you call.
With 90 days between the equinox on September 22 and the solstice on December 21, we are halfway through the relevant seasons
(Autumn or Fall in the northern hemisphere; Spring in the southern hemisphere) on this day.
While you are considering that, keep this in mind:
And so it goes
1 comment:
Actually, the Metropolitan Sports Center is in Bloomington, MN. It was demolished a decade or so ago. An Ikea store now occupies the site, across the street from the monstrosity known as the Mall of America. Elvis would not be amused.
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