Important Events
43 BC Second Triumvirate alliance of Roman leader Octavian (later Caesar Augustus), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony formed
1778 British explorer Captain James Cook is the first European to visit Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)
1789 1st national Thanksgiving in America
1865 “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll is published in America
1922 English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun’s virtually intact tomb in Egypt
Today In Film & TV
1922 1st successful Technicolor movie (The Toll of the Sea), premieres at the Rialto Theatre in NYC
1942 “Casablanca” directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman premieres at Hollywood Theater, NYC (Academy Awards Best Picture 1943)
Today In Music
1945 Charlie “Bird” Parker leads recording session for the Savoy label marketed as the “greatest Jazz session ever” with Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis
Today In Sports
1917 NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Association disbands