paulmallon 
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I know Red Viking mentioned it above,but it's such a great movie it deserves another mention:
Nov 26, 1942:
Casablanca premieres in NYC
On this day in 1942, Casablanca, a World War II-era drama starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres in New York City; it will go on to become one of the most beloved Hollywood movies in history.
In the film, Bogart played Rick Blaine, a former freedom fighter and the owner of a swanky North African nightclub, who is reunited with the beautiful, enigmatic Ilsa Lund (Bergman), the woman who loved and left him. Directed by Michael Curtiz, Casablanca opened in theaters across America on January 23, 1943, and was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Bogart. It took home three Oscars, for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film featured a number of now-iconic quotes, including Rick’s line to Ilsa: “Here’s looking at you, kid,” as well as “Round up the usual suspects,” “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship” and “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”
And perhaps the most famous quote ever attributed to this film "Play it again,Sam"...only one litle problem: the line was never spoken, oh, well, "we'll always have Paris".
My favorite exchange:(between Major Strasser & Rick Blaine)
Strasser: "what is your occupation"
Rick:I'm a drunk"
Strasser:"why did you come to Casablanca"?
Rick:"I came for the waters"
Strasser:"Casablanca is in a desert"
Rick:" I was misinformed"Nov 26, 1942:
Casablanca premieres in NYC
On this day in 1942, Casablanca, a World War II-era drama starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres in New York City; it will go on to become one of the most beloved Hollywood movies in history.
In the film, Bogart played Rick Blaine, a former freedom fighter and the owner of a swanky North African nightclub, who is reunited with the beautiful, enigmatic Ilsa Lund (Bergman), the woman who loved and left him. Directed by Michael Curtiz, Casablanca opened in theaters across America on January 23, 1943, and was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Bogart. It took home three Oscars, for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film featured a number of now-iconic quotes, including Rick’s line to Ilsa: “Here’s looking at you, kid,” as well as “Round up the usual suspects,” “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship” and “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”
And perhaps the most famous quote ever attributed to this film "Play it again,Sam"...only one litle problem: the line was never spoken, oh, well, "we'll always have Paris".
My favorite exchange between Major Strasser and Rick Blain:
Strasser: "what is your occupation"
Rick:I'm a drunk"
Strasser:"why did you come to Casablanca"?
Rick:"I came for the waters"
Strasser:"Casablanca is in a desert"
Rick:" I was misinformed"Nov 26, 1942:
Casablanca premieres in NYC
On this day in 1942, Casablanca, a World War II-era drama starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premieres in New York City; it will go on to become one of the most beloved Hollywood movies in history.
In the film, Bogart played Rick Blaine, a former freedom fighter and the owner of a swanky North African nightclub, who is reunited with the beautiful, enigmatic Ilsa Lund (Bergman), the woman who loved and left him. Directed by Michael Curtiz, Casablanca opened in theaters across America on January 23, 1943, and was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Actor for Bogart. It took home three Oscars, for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. The film featured a number of now-iconic quotes, including Rick’s line to Ilsa: “Here’s looking at you, kid,” as well as “Round up the usual suspects,” “Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship” and “Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.”
And perhaps the most famous quote ever attributed to this film "Play it again,Sam"...only one litle problem: the line was never spoken, oh, well, "we'll always have Paris".
My favorite exchange:(between Major Strasser & Rick Blaine)
Strasser: "what is your occupation"
Rick:I'm a drunk"
Strasser:"why did you come to Casablanca"?
Rick:"I came for the waters"
Strasser:"Casablanca is in a desert"
Rick:" I was misinformed"v
Reply #901. Nov 26 11, 10:10 AM
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paulmallon
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sorry about the "echo"
Reply #902. Nov 26 11, 10:11 AM
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dippo
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Shouldn't you be crediting the source you're quoting from? (Once would do.)
Reply #903. Nov 26 11, 10:46 AM
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romeomikegolf
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1942: The French navy scuttles its fleet of 70 ships and submarines at Toulon to keep them from the Germans.
Reply #904. Nov 27 11, 5:52 AM
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romeomikegolf
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1660: The 12 founding members of the Royal Society meet for the first time at Gresham College in London.
Reply #905. Nov 28 11, 4:40 AM
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romeomikegolf
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1990: The UN approves the use of force for only the second time in its history, to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
Reply #906. Nov 29 11, 4:31 AM
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paulmallon
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Nov 29, 1981:
Actress Natalie Wood drowns
On this day in 1981, the actress Natalie Wood, who starred in such movies as Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story, drowns in a boating accident near California’s Catalina Island. She was 43 years old.
Reply #907. Nov 29 11, 9:59 AM
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paulmallon
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Nov 30, 2004:
Jeopardy! contestant's record winning streak ends
On this day in 2004, after winning 74 straight games and more than $2.5 million--a record for U.S. game shows--Jeopardy! contestant Ken Jennings loses. Jennings' extended winning streak gave the game show a huge ratings boost and turned the software engineer from Salt Lake City, Utah into a TV hero and household name, at least temporarily. Barbara Walters named him one of the 10 most fascinating people of the year (along with Google co-founder Sergey Brin, Republican operative Karl Rove and hotel heiress-socialite Paris Hilton, among others) and Jennings appeared on such shows as Late Night with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and even Sesame Street.
Jennings, who was born in 1974, outside of Seattle, Washington, graduated from Brigham Young University in 2000, where he headed the school's national quiz bowl team. Having grown up watching Jeopardy!, he made his first appearance on the show in June 2004. After a record-setting six-month run, Jennings lost on a show that aired November 30, 2004, when he was stumped by the answer: "Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year." The correct response was the tax preparation company H&R Block. Propelled by his Jeopardy! fame, Jennings went on to become a pitchman for various products and write several books
Reply #908. Nov 30 11, 10:59 AM
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paulmallon
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Dec 1, 1955:
Rosa Parks ignites bus boycot
In Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city's racial segregation laws. The successful Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King, Jr., followed Park's historic act of civil disobedience
Reply #909. Dec 01 11, 9:19 AM
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paulmallon
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Dec 2, 2001:
Enron files for bankruptcy
On this day in 2001, the Enron Corporation files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a New York court, sparking one of the largest corporate scandals in U.S. history.
An energy-trading company based in Houston, Texas, Enron was formed in 1985 as the merger of two gas companies, Houston Natural Gas and Internorth. Under chairman and CEO Kenneth Lay, Enron rose as high as number seven on Fortune magazine's list of the top 500 U.S. companies. In 2000, the company employed 21,000 people and posted revenue of $111 billion. Over the next year, however, Enron's stock price began a dramatic slide, dropping from $90.75 in August 2000 to $0.26 by closing on November 30, 2001.
Reply #910. Dec 02 11, 12:58 PM
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paulmallon
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Dec 3, 1967:
First human heart transplant
On December 3, 1967, 53-year-old Lewis Washkansky receives the first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
Washkansky, a South African grocer dying from chronic heart disease, received the transplant from Denise Darvall, a 25-year-old woman who was fatally injured in a car accident. Surgeon Christiaan Barnard, who trained at the University of Cape Town and in the United States, performed the revolutionary medical operation. The technique Barnard employed had been initially developed by a group of American researchers in the 1950s. American surgeon Norman Shumway achieved the first successful heart transplant, in a dog, at Stanford University in California in 1958.
After Washkansky's surgery, he was given drugs to suppress his immune system and keep his body from rejecting the heart. These drugs also left him susceptible to sickness, however, and 18 days later he died from double pneumonia. Despite the setback, Washkansky's new heart had functioned normally until his death.
Reply #911. Dec 03 11, 11:14 AM
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paulmallon
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Dec 5, 1933:
Prohibition ends
The 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified, repealing the 18th Amendment and bringing an end to the era of national prohibition of alcohol in America. At 5:32 p.m. EST, Utah became the 36th state to ratify the amendment, achieving the requisite three-fourths majority of states' approval. Pennsylvania and Ohio had ratified it earlier in the day.
Reply #913. Dec 05 11, 10:23 PM
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paulmallon
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Dec 6, 1865:
The 13th Amendment is ratified
On this day in 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, officially ending the institution of slavery, is ratified. "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." With these words, the single greatest change wrought by the Civil War was officially noted in the Constitution
Reply #914. Dec 06 11, 8:53 AM
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romeomikegolf
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43 BC: Roman orator and advocate Cicero is executed on the orders of the warlord Mark Antony.
Reply #915. Dec 07 11, 5:28 AM
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REDVIKING57
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December 7th.,1941 - "A Day That Will Live In Infamy".
The Japanese Imperial Navy attack the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbour.
Reply #916. Dec 07 11, 5:53 AM
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paulmallon
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Dec 8, 1980:
John Lennon shot
John Lennon, a former member of the Beatles, the rock group that transformed popular music in the 1960s, is shot and killed by an obsessed fan in New York City. The 40-year-old artist was entering his luxury Manhattan apartment building when Mark David Chapman shot him four times at close range with a .38-caliber revolver. Lennon, bleeding profusely, was rushed to the hospital but died en route. Chapman had received an autograph from Lennon earlier in the day and voluntarily remained at the scene of the shooting until he was arrested by police. For a week, hundreds of bereaved fans kept a vigil outside the Dakota--Lennon's apartment building--and demonstrations of mourning were held around the world.
Reply #917. Dec 08 11, 12:27 PM
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romeomikegolf
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536: The Byzantine general Belisarius conquers Rome, claiming Italy for the Byzantine empire.
Reply #918. Dec 09 11, 3:41 AM
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romeomikegolf
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1936: Edward VIII signs his abdication, freeing him to marry the American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
Reply #919. Dec 10 11, 6:44 AM
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romeomikegolf
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1192: Richard I is captured by Leopold, Duke of Austria, as he returns from the Third Crusade.
Reply #920. Dec 11 11, 5:56 AM
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