On this day, March 18, in 1882, sheriff Morgan Earp, brother of Deputy U.S. Marshal Wyatt Earp, was assassinated by Cowboys as revenge for the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (depicted in Tombstone, 1993)
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Today, March 18, in 1982, Seattle high schooler David Lightman teaches his friend Jennifer Mack about war dialing, hacking, phreaking, and the importance of infosec (WarGames, 1983)
Today, March 18, in 2263, taxicab driver Korben Dallas picks up an unusual passenger (The Fifth Element, 1997)
Today, March 17, in 180 AD, Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius died and was succeeded by his son Commodus (depicted in Gladiator, 2000)
Today, March 17, in 1993, Dr. Richard Kimble ducks into the Chicago St. Patrick’s Day Parade, narrowly avoiding being apprehended by Senior Deputy U.S. Marshal Samuel Gerard (The Fugitive, 1993)
Today, March 17, in Boston, twin brothers Connor and Murphy MacManus attend Mass and celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with friends at McVeigh’s Irish Pub (The Boondock Saints, 1999)
actually kinda disappointed by #mickey17 the message was on point and the heart but something felt unnecessarily convoluted. Anyone else or is it just me? #film #cinema #cinemastodon
Today, March 16, mission control technician Elliot Whitter notices something is amiss when the Capricorn One crew's television signals are being transmitted ahead of the ship's telemetry (Capricorn One, 1978)
#OnThisDay, March 16, in 1945, America began a two-day campaign of firebombing Kobe, Japan (depicted in Grave of the Fireflies, 1988, Studio Ghibli)
Today, March 15, in 1973, sci-fi author George McFly is shot in an alleyway. After his son Marty burns a stolen sports almanac from the future and corrects the timeline, today, March 15, in 1973, sci-fi author George McFly receives an award (Back to the Future: Part II, 1989)
Today, March 15, in 1917, Czar Nicholas II abdicated the Russian throne, ending 300 years of Romanov rule, the last full autocracy in Europe (The Last Czars, 2019)
Today, March 15, in 44 BC, on the Ides of March, a group of Roman senators stabbed Julius Caesar to death during a meeting of the Senate in the Theatre of Pompey (Rome, 2005)
Today, March 14, in 2077, drone repair technician Jack Harper wakes up near the end of his five-year mission on Earth. He is one of the few humans on the planet, which was ravaged by nuclear war and natural disaster after the moon was destroyed 60 years earlier (Oblivion, 2013)
Today, March 14, in 1964, Dallas, Texas nightclub owner Jack Ruby was convicted of murder with malice and sentenced to death for shooting and killing President John F. Kennedy's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald (Ruby, 1992)
Today, March 13, recent graduate and aspiring journalist Andrea "Andy" Sachs interviews to become a personal assistant to Miranda Priestly, the editor-in-chief of Runway magazine (The Devil Wears Prada, 2006)
Today, March 13, in 1941, newspapers report on the incredible flying elephant Dumbo, who sets a new altitude record and brings morale to the war effort (Dumbo, 1941)
#OnThisDay, March 13, in 2013, following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, the papal conclave elected Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church (depicted in The Two Popes, 2019)
Today, March 12, asylum director Dr. Caligari excitedly writes about a somnambulist, or sleepwalker, who has been brought to his hospital. He hopes to emulate an 18th-century mystic who utilized sleepwalkers to commit murders (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920)
#OnThisDay, March 12, 538 AD, Ostrogothic king Witigis ended his year-long siege of Rome and retreated, conceding the city to Byzantine general Belisarius. The siege decimated the city's population, and defeat broke the power of the Goths (depicted in Kampf um Rom, 1968)
Watched Alexandre Koberidze’s What Do We See When We Look At The Sky? - a contemporary fairy tale on the magic of the everyday and that even the very small and commonplace (love, cinema, football, sense of place) matter against the scale of everything else. Really enjoyed its meandering and use of a narrator, as well as being beautiful to watch.
