So remember, after your morning coffee (or tea,) please remember to recycle your 'precious bodily fluids' and then wash your hands.
March 22, 1895 -
Auguste and Louis Lumiere may have first demonstrated motion pictures in Paris using celluloid film. Unless it was March 19, 1895, or December 28, 1894, or cellulite instead of celluloid. And it may have been in Milan, or Warsaw, and it's possible it wasn't Louis and Auguste Lumiere, but Max and Emil Skladanowsky.
The first motion picture shown on a screen is presented by Auguste and Louis Lumière during a private screening for the Société d’Encouragement à l’Industrie Nationale on this date in 1895.
An invited audience of 45 spectators at the Rue de Rennes in Paris, France, viewed the silent documentary film La Sortie des ouvriers de l’usine Lumière (Employees Leaving the Lumière Factory and Exiting the Factory), a film they shot especially for the occasion.
March 22, 1937 -
The biopix of the showman Florenz Ziegfeld, The Great Ziegfeld, starring William Powell, Luise Rainer, Myrna Loy and Frank Morgan premiered in Los Angeles on this date.
Billie Burke never really rated the film much despite taking a personal interest in the writing of the script. She went to great lengths to make sure that writer William Anthony McGuire never besmirched the good name of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., hence the playing down of his infidelities.
March 22, 1947 -
Another glimpse into the 'early' pre-celebrity life of Bugs, A Hare Grows In Manhattan, premiered on this date.
The interviewer is meant to be Louella Parsons, a popular gossip columnist at the time. Bugs even calls her by her nickname "Lolly".
March 22, 1963 -
The Beatles' first album, Please Please Me, was released in the UK on this date. The album went to the top of the UK charts in two months and remained there for 30 weeks.
Please Please Me has been ranked in the top 50 of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" by Rolling Stone. In the US, most of the songs on Please Please Me were first issued on Vee-Jay Records' Introducing... The Beatles in 1964 and subsequently on Capitol Records' The Early Beatles in 1965.
March 22, 1975 -
B.J. Thomas' single, (Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song, was the no. 1 hit on the Adult Billboard Chart on this date.
(Hey Won’t You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song was B. J. Thomas' second #1 hit, his other being Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head. The song is the longest-titled #1 charting song to date. He also scored many #1s on the Adult Contemporary and Country charts, being something of a cross-genre sensation. Still, this hit came after a long period of waning (though still considerable) popularity.
March 22, 1977 –
Yet another John Denver television special, Thank God I’m a Country Boy, premiered on ABC. TV, on this date.
John Denver had already earned his country cred with the crossover hit Take Me Home Country Roads in 1971. While that song was inspired by a longing to settle in West Virginia (neither he or the songwriters had actually ever visited the state), Thank God I’m a Country Boy literally hit closer to home as it was influenced by the singer's beloved Colorado, where he made his home in Aspen.
March 22, 1978 –
The seminal mockumentary about The Pre-Fab Four, The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, directed by Eric Idle and Gary Weis and starring some people from Monty Python and some other people from SNL, premiered on NBC-TV on this date.
Neil Innes, Ricky Fataar and John Halsey regrouped in 1996 to record Archaeology, their satirical response to the Beatles' Anthology. It consisted of tunes not used in the movie, rearranged Innes solo songs and one song penned as a spoof of Free as a Bird. Eric Idle didn't take part; Dirk McQuickly, the album's press materials explained, had quit the music business to become a comedian.
March 22, 1984 -
Queen filmed the video for I Want To Break Free at Limehouse Studio in London, England, on this date. Directed by David Mallet, it was a parody of the northern British soap opera Coronation Street with the band members dressed in drag.
Guitarist Brian May later claimed that the video ruined the band in America, and was initially banned by MTV in the US.
Another unimportant day in history
Today in History:
March 22, 1622 -
A band led by the Brothers of Powhatan slaughtered 347 settlers near Jamestown, a quarter of the population, in the first Native American massacre of European settlers on this date.
Just think if those indigenous people had just followed the thought all the way through ....
March 22, 1687 -
Classical music and vanity do not mix, if fact, they can really kill you.
The wound abscessed and eventually turned gangrenous. He refused to have his toe amputated (as he first started as a court dancer) because he could not bear the thought of disfigurement. The wound turned gangrenous and the infection spread, killing him three months later, on this date.
Two leading lights of twentieth century musical theatre were born on March 22: Stephen Sondheim (1930), best known for his work on Gypsy, West Side Story, Company and Sweeney Todd and Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948), best known for Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats and Phantom of the Opera.
By some mysterious natural process of compensation, March 22 is also the birthday of Marcel Marceau (1923),
best known for Actor Trapped in a Role.
March 22, 1931 -
How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways..
William Shatner, arguably the world's (or at least Canada's) greatest actor was born today on this date.
March 22, 1958 -
Michael Todd (nee Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen,) movie producer, (and one of the myriad of husband's of Elizabeth Taylor) and three other people were killed in the crash of Todd's private plane Lucky Liz, near Grants, New Mexico, on this date. In his autobiography, Eddie Fisher, who considered himself to be Todd's best friend (and another one of the myriad of husbands of Elizabeth Taylor,) stated that no fragments of Todd had been found, and that his coffin contained only his ring.
The Los Angeles Times reported in 1977 that Fisher's story was false - remains of Todd were indeed found and buried. His remains were desecrated by robbers, who broke into his coffin looking for the ring. The bag containing Todd's remains was found under a tree near his plot.
How big was that bag?
March 22, 1960 –
The first laser was patented (US Patent #2,929,922) by Arthur Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes under the title Masers and Maser Communications System.
March 22, 1972 -
National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse recommended ending criminal penalties for possession of marijuana on this date.
Follow along (this may be on a different test) -
March 22, 1978 -
One of the Flying Wallendas, 73 year old Karl Wallenda, plunges to his death on a cable strung between two hotels in San Juan, PR on this date.
Oops!
March 22, 1987-
The Mobro 4000 left New York with over 3000 tons of garbage looking for a port to take it, on this date.
No one would take the trash, so after 162 days, the barge returned, still fully loaded, to NYC. It seems, garbage out, garbage in.
March 22, 2006 -
Back in 1767, Lord Robert Clive of the East India Company, the first British Governor of the Bengal Presidency, was given a gift of four Aldabra tortoises from the Seychelle Islands. Three soon died, but the fourth, named Addwaita, which means ‘one and only’ in Bengali, survived. He survived his master, who died in 1774. He was moved to a Calcutta zoo in 1875 and survived the end of the British empire.
Addwaita, much like the Energizer Bunny, kept going. He even survived the 20th Century. Finally as to all, Addwaita bought the reptilian ranch on this date.
Talk about live long and prosper.
Don't forget to check out today's quiz on the Russian Monarchy
Before you go - Today is the earliest day on which Easter Sunday (in the Roman Catholic faith) may occur,
not that it occurs on this date this year; Easter is April 9th this year.
And so it goes.
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