I'm not sure when it was posted or where, but Mr. H. B. corrected my date for the miracle game in hockey That game was played on February 22, 1980, not February 2.

On May 22 in History For Amy and for Laurence Olivier 0760 - 14th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet 1176 - Murder attempt by "Assassins" on Saladin near Aleppo 1200 - Peace of Goulet 1370 - Jews are expelled/massacred from Brussels Belgium 1455 - Open battle in England's 30-year War of the Roses (St Albans) 1455 - Richard of York takes St Albans, kidnapping King Henry VI 1526 - Pope Clemens VII, France, Genoa, Venice, Florence & Milan form Anti-French League of Cognac 1570 - 1st atlas, with 70 maps, published 1594 - Earl Mauritius & Willem Louis begins siege of Groningen 1629 - Emperor Ferdinand II & Danish King Christian IV sign Peace of L�beck 1659 - France, England & Netherlands sign "Hedges Concerto" treaty 1712 - Emperor Karel VI crowned king of Hungary 1746 - Russia & Austria signs treaty of cooperation 1761 - 1st life insurance policy in US, issued in Phila 1762 - Sweden & Prussia sign peace treaty 1784 - Ceylonese student leader Pieter Quint Ondaatje demands democracy 1803 - 1st public library opens (Connecticut) 1807 - Former VP Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond Va (acquitted) 1807 - Townsend Speakman 1st sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Phila) 1819 - 1st steam propelled vessel to cross Atlantic (Savannah leaves Ga) 1836 - Felix Mendelssohn's oratorium "St Paul," premieres in D�sseldorf 1843 - 1st wagon train, 1000+ depart Independence Missouri for Oregon 1849 - Abraham Lincoln patents a buoying device 1856 - Violence in Senate, SC rep Brooks used a cane on Mass Sen Sumner 1858 - Confederaci�n Granadina (now Colombia) forms 1863 - General Grant begins siege on Vicksburg 1863 - War Dept establishes Bureau of Colored Troops 1864 - Battle of N Anna River, VA (Totopotamy River, Haw's Shop, Hanovertown) 1868 - Great Train Robbery-7 men (Reno Brother) make off with $98,000 in cash 1872 - Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners (except for 500) 1877 - 3rd Kentucky Derby: Billy Walker aboard Baden-Baden wins in 2:38 1883 - Cub's Billy Sunday's 1st at bat, begins 14 consecutive strikes out 1884 - 1-armed pitcher Hugh Daily fanned 13 hitters 1885 - 13th Preakness: Jim McLaughlin aboard Tecumseh wins in 2:49 1888 - Leroy Buffington patents a system to build skyscrapers 1891 - 1st motion picture shown to Natl Federation of Women's Clubs 1892 - Dr Washington Sheffield invents toothpaste tube 1893 - Montreal Athletic Assn beat Ottawa Generals 2-1, in 1st Cup Game 1900 - Associated Press organizes in NYC as non-profit news cooperative 1900 - Edwin S Votey patents pneumatic piano player 1902 - 36th Belmont: John Bullman aboard Mastermam wins in 2:22.6 1905 - Royal Academy in Delft Holland becomes Technical High School 1906 - 10th anniversary Olympic games close at Athens, Greece 1906 - 31st Preakness: Walter Miller aboard Whimsical wins in 1:45 1906 - Wright Brothers patents an aeroplane 1907 - Albert Trott takes two hat-tricks in an innings, Mddx v Somerset 1909 - 1st SF fireboat, David Scannell, launched 1911 - Braves pitcher, Cliff Curtis, loses his 23rd game in a row 1915 - Local train collides with troop train killing 226 (Gretna Scotland) 1916 - French troops occupy parts of Fort Douaumont Verdun 1923 - Stanley Baldwin succeeds Andrew Bonar Law as British premier 1924 - In Chicago, Nathan Leopold & Richard Loeb kidnap Robert Franks 1926 - "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Gene Austin hits #1 1926 - Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Guomindang China 1926 - Dutch Communist Party expels David Wijnkoop 1927 - 8.3 earthquake strikes Nan-Shan China, 200,000 killed 1927 - Dodgers beat Phillies, 20-4 1928 - US Congress accept Jones-White Merchant Naval Act 1930 - Ruth hits 3 consecutive HR (8th-10th of 60 in 1930) 1930 - Yankee "Bronx Bombers" hit 14 HRs in a game 1931 - Canned rattlesnake meat 1st goes on sale in Florida 1933 - Loch Ness Monster is 1st reportedly sighted by John Mackay 1933 - World Trade Day/National Maritime Day 1st celebrated 1938 - Dodgers announce contracts to install lights at Ebbets Field 1939 - Hitler & Mussolini sign "Pact of Steel" 1940 - Dutch Premier De Geer begins working with nazis 1940 - Premier Winston Churchill flies to Paris 1941 - British troops attack Baghdad 1942 - Mexico declares war on nazi-Germany & Japan 1943 - 1st jet fighter is tested 1943 - RAF scatters 1st copies of "The Flying Hollander" 1943 - Stalin disbands Komintern 1945 - 6th Marine division reaches suburbs of Naha Okinawa 1945 - NSB-F�hrer Rost van Tonningen attempts & fails at suicide 1946 - Yankees turn triple-play & defeat Tigers' 5-3 1947 - "Truman Doctrine" goes into effect, aiding Turkey & Greece 1947 - 1st US ballistic missile fired 1950 - Celal Bayar elected president of Turkey 1950 - Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg wins PC Hooft prize 1950 - Richard Strauss' "4 Last Songs" (4 letzte Lieder) in London 1953 - President Eisenhower signs Offshore Oil Bill 1953 - Yankee Irv Noren hits into a triple-play, Yanks beat Wash 12-4 1954 - 80th Preakness: Johnny Adams aboard Hasty Road wins in 1:57.4 1954 - KREX TV channel 5 in Grand Junction, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting 1954 - Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan is Bar Mitzvahed 1955 - Oldest man to drive in the Grand Prix (aged 55) finishes 6th 1956 - "Bob Hope Show," last airs on NBC-TV 1956 - KRIS TV channel 6 in Corpus Christi, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting 1957 - KBTX TV channel 3 in Bryan, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting 1957 - Red Sox set AL record by smashing 4 HRs in 6th inning in 11-0 win 1957 - South Africa govt approves race separation in universities 1959 - Benjamin O Davis Jr becomes 1st black gen-major in USAF 1960 - Virtually all coastal towns between 37th & 44th parallels severly damaged by tsunami that strikes Hilo, Hawaii at 01:04 AM 1961 - "Mother-In-Law" by Ernie K-Doe hits #1 1961 - "Touchables In Brooklyn" by Dickie Goodman hits #42 1961 - 1st revolving restaurant (Top Of The Needle in Seattle), opens 1962 - 14th Emmy Awards: Bob Newhart Show, E G Marshall & Shirley Booth 1962 - Neth telephone net becomes completely automated 1962 - Robert A Rushworth, USAF major, takes X-15 to 30,600m 1962 - Roger Maris walks 5 times (record 4 intentionally) in a 9 inn game 1963 - A C Milan wins 8th Europe Cup 1 at London 1963 - Greek parliament leader Lambrakis injured 1963 - Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade 1964 - LBJ presents "Great Society" 1965 - "Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious" hits #66 1965 - Beatles' "Ticket to Ride," single goes #1 1965 - Mad Dog Vachon beats Igor Vodic in Omaha, to become NWA champ 1966 - 18th Emmy Awards: Fugitive, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore 1966 - Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open 1967 - "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," debuts on NET (now PBS) 1967 - Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel 1967 - Fire at L'Innovation dept store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium) 1968 - Pitts Pirate Willie Stargell hits 3 HRs, a double & a single 1969 - Stafford & Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 mi(15km) above lunar surface 1970 - Arab terrorists kill 9 children & 3 adults on a school bus 1970 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 1970 - Mel Stottlemyre sets record by walking 11, but wins 2-0 1972 - Ceylon becomes Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified 1972 - Ton Sijbrands becomes world checker champion 1972 - US president Nixon begins visit Moscow 1973 - Emmy News & Documentaries Award presentation 1973 - President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up 1974 - Ruffian begins her racing career as a filly & dies 14 months later 1974 - Soccer team Veendam forms 1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1975 - 8th ABA Championship: Kentucky Colonels beat Ind Pacers, 4 games to 1 1976 - NASA launches space vehicle S-179 1976 - St Louis Cardinal Reggie Smith hits 3 HR 1977 - Final European scheduled run of Orient Express (94 years) 1977 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic 1977 - Red Sox (6) & Brewers (5) tie single game HR record of 11 1979 - Canadians elect conservatives, Joseph Clark replaces Pierre Trudeau 1979 - Commencement of 1st ICC Trophy (PNG v E Afr & Singapore v Arg) 1980 - Marlo Thomas & Phil Donahue marry 1981 - Soyuz 40 returns to Earth 1983 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Tournament 1983 - Toronto Blue Jay Cliff Johnson hits record 18th pinch hit HR 1985 - Pete Rose 2,108th run passes Hank Aaron as NL run scoring leader 1985 - Real Madrid wins 14th UEFA Cup at Madrid 1985 - US sailor Michael L Walker arrested for spying for USSR 1986 - Cher called David Letterman an asshole on Late Night on NBC 1987 - 30 killed in a Texas tornado 1988 - 34th LPGA Championship won by Sherri Turner 1988 - K roly Gr�sz succeeds party leader J nos K d r in Hungary 1990 - Andre Dawson sets record being intentionally walked 5 times 1990 - Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,852.23 1990 - Final episode of "Newhart" airs 1990 - Microsoft releases Windows 3.0 1990 - North & South Yemen merge to form Republic of Yemen 1991 - Inter Milan wins 20th UEFA Cup at Rome 1991 - NFL Owners agree to add 2 teams in 1994 1991 - Roh Jai Bong resigns as premier of South Korea 1992 - Calif Angels, are involved in a bus crash, in NJ 1992 - India launches its Agni rocket 1992 - Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of Tonight Show 1993 - Riddick Bowe TKOs Jesse Ferguson in 2 for heavyweight boxing title 1994 - Elaine Crosby wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open 1994 - Toronto NBA franchise unveils name "Raptors" & logo 1995 - Laverne & Shirley 20th anniversary reunionn special, televised 1996 - "Tartuffe: Born Again," opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 29 perfs 1996 - Emmy 23rd Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 16th time

The 7-foot 2-inch (2.18 m) Chamberlain, known as Wilt the Stilt (a nickname he loathed) or The Big Dipper, holds nearly 100 NBA records, including the record for most points in a game -- 100, which he scored on March 2, 1962, against the New York Knicks in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He averaged 30.1 points and 22.9 rebounds per game for his career. He led the NBA in rebounding 11 times, led in shooting percentage seven times, led in scoring seven times, and even led in assists one season. In his 14 years in the NBA, he never once fouled out of a game, despite being the centerpiece on defense for each team he played for. His 1961-62 scoring average of 50.4 ppg, accomplished with the Philadelphia Warriors, is by far the NBA record. Chamberlain also holds the next three spots on the NBA's season scoring average list with 44.8, 38.9 and 38.4 points per game. The next closest player is Elgin Baylor, who averaged 38.3 ppg in the same '61-62 season in which Chamberlain set the record.

Not to mention the record for most female conquests: 20,000 (by his own estimate)

1836 Texas declared its independence from Mexico. 1877 Rutherford B. Hayes was declared president by a U.S. electoral commission since the original result was too close to call. He was the only president elected this way. 1917 Puerto Rico became a U.S. territory and Puerto Ricans gained American citizenship. 1923 The first issue of Henry Luce's TIME magazine appeared on newsstands. 1933 King Kong, starring Fay Wray, premiered in New York City. 1949 Captain James Gallagher completed the first non-stop around the world flight. He completed the 23,452-mile journey in 94 hours, 1 minute. 1956 Morocco gained independence from France. 1962 Philadelphia Warriors center Wilt Chamberlain scored an NBA-record 100 points in a basketball game. 2001 The Taliban began the destruction of ancient Buddha statues in Afghanistan.

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POLICE BRUTALITY CAUGHT ON VIDEO: March 3, 1991 At 12:45 a.m. on March 3, 1991, robbery parolee Rodney G. King stops his car after leading police on a nearly 8-mile pursuit through the streets of Los Angeles, California. The chase began after King, who was intoxicated, was caught speeding on a freeway by a California Highway Patrol cruiser but refused to pull over. Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) cruisers and a police helicopter joined the pursuit, and when King was finally stopped by Hansen Dam Park, several police cars descended on his white Hyundai. A group of LAPD officers led by Sergeant Stacey Koon ordered King and the other two occupants of the car to exit the vehicle and lie flat on the ground. King's two friends complied, but King himself was slower to respond, getting on his hands and knees rather than lying flat. Officers Laurence Powell, Timothy Wind, Ted Briseno, and Roland Solano tried to force King down, but he resisted, and the officers stepped back and shot King twice with an electric stun gun known as a Taser, which fires darts carrying a charge of 50,000 volts. At this moment, civilian George Holliday, standing on a balcony in an apartment complex across the street, focused the lens of his new video camera on the commotion unfolding by Hansen Dam Park. In the first few seconds of what would become a very famous 89-second video, King is seen rising after the Taser shots and running in the direction of Officer Powell. The officers alleged that King was charging Powell, while King himself later claimed that an officer told him, "We're going to kill you, nigger. Run!" and he tried to flee. All the arresting officers were white, along with all but one of the other two dozen or so law enforcement officers present at the scene. With the roar of the helicopter above, very few commands or remarks are audible in the video.

March 3 1820 Congress passes the Missouri Compromise After months of bitter debate, Congress passes the Missouri Compromise, a bill that temporarily resolves the first serious political clash between slavery and antislavery interests in U.S. history. In February 1819, Representative James Tallmadge of New York introduced a bill that would admit Missouri into the Union as a state where slavery was prohibited. At the time, there were 11 free states and 10 slave states. Southern congressmen feared that the entrance of Missouri as a free state would upset the balance of power between North and South, as the North far outdistanced the South in population, and thus, U.S. representatives. Opponents to the bill also questioned the congressional precedent of prohibiting the expansion of slavery into a territory where slave status was favored. Even after Alabama was granted statehood in December 1819 with no prohibition on its practice of slavery, Congress remained deadlocked on the issue of Missouri. Finally, a compromise was reached. On March 3, 1820, Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel, which runs approximately along the southern border of Missouri. In addition, Maine, formerly part of Massachusetts, was admitted as a free state, thus preserving the balance between Northern and Southern senators. The Missouri Compromise, although criticized by many on both sides of the slavery debate, succeeded in keeping the Union together for more than 30 years. In 1854, it was repealed by the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which dictated that slave or free status was to be decided by popular vote in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska; though both were north of the 36th parallel.

THE BOSTON MASSACRE: March 5, 1770 On the cold, snowy night of March 5, 1770, a mob of American colonists gathers at the Customs House in Boston and begins taunting the British soldiers guarding the building. The protesters, who called themselves Patriots, were protesting the occupation of their city by British troops, who were sent to Boston in 1768 to enforce unpopular taxation measures passed by a British parliament that lacked American representation. British Captain Thomas Preston, the commanding officer at the Customs House, ordered his men to fix their bayonets and join the guard outside the building. The colonists responded by throwing snowballs and other objects at the British regulars, and Private Hugh Montgomery was hit, leading him to discharge his rifle at the crowd. The other soldiers began firing a moment later, and when the smoke cleared, five colonists were dead or dying - Crispus Attucks, Patrick Carr, Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, and James Caldwell - and three more were injured. Although it is unclear whether Crispus Attucks, an African American, was the first to fall as is commonly believed, the deaths of the five men are regarded by some historians as the first fatalities in the American Revolutionary War. The British soldiers were put on trial, and patriots John Adams and Josiah Quincy agreed to defend the soldiersin a show of support of the colonial justice system. When the trial ended in December 1770, two British soldiers were found guilty of manslaughter and had their thumbs branded with an "M" for murder as punishment. The Sons of Liberty, a Patriot group formed in 1765 to oppose the Stamp Act, advertised the "Boston Massacre" as a battle for American liberty and just cause for the removal of British troops from Boston. Patriot Paul Revere made a provocative engraving of the incident, depicting the British soldiers lining up like an organized army to suppress an idealized representation of the colonist uprising. Copies of the engraving were distributed throughout the colonies and helped reinforce negative American sentiments about British rule. In April 1775, the American Revolution began when British troops from Boston skirmished with American militiamen at the battles of Lexington and Concord. The British troops were under orders to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock in Lexington and to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord. Neither missions were accomplished because of Paul Revere and William Dawes, who rode ahead of the British, warning Adams and Hancock and rousing the Patriot minutemen. Eleven months later, in March 1776, British forces had to evacuate Boston following American General George Washington's successful placement of fortifications and cannons on Dorchester Heights. This bloodless liberation of Boston brought an end to the hated eight-year British occupation of the city. For the victory, General Washington, commander of the Continental Army, was presented with the first medal ever awarded by the Continental Congress. It would be more than five years before the Revolutionary War came to an end with British G neral Charles Cornwallis' surrender to Washington at Yorktown, Virginia. http://www.historychannel.com/today/

MICHELANGELO BORN: March 6, 1475 Michelangelo Buonarroti, the greatest of the Italian Renaissance artists, is born in the small village of Caprese on March 6, 1475. The son of a government administrator, he grew up in Florence, a center of the early Renaissance movement, and became an artist's apprentice at age 13. Demonstrating obvious talent, he was taken under the wing of Lorenzo de' Medici, the ruler of the Florentine republic and a great patron of the arts. For two years beginning in 1490, he lived in the Medici palace, where he was a student of the sculptor Bertoldo di Giovanni and studied the Medici art collection, which included ancient Roman statuary. With the expulsion of the Medici family from Florence in 1494, Michelangelo traveled to Bologna and Rome, where he was commissioned to do several works. His most important early work was the Piet� (1498), a sculpture based on a traditional type of devotional image that showed the body of Christ in the lap of the Virgin Mary. Demonstrating masterful technical skill, he extracted the two perfectly balanced figures of the Piet� from a single block of marble. With the success of the Piet�, the artist was commissioned to sculpt a monumental statue of the biblical character David for the Florence cathedral. The 17-foot statue, produced in the classical style, demonstrates the artist's exhaustive knowledge of human anatomy and form. In the work, David is shown watching the approach of his foe Goliath, with every muscle tensed and a pose suggesting impending movement. Upon the completion of David in 1504, Michelangelo's reputation was firmly established. That year, he agreed to paint a mural for the Florence city hall to rest alongside one being painted by Leonardo da Vinci, another leading Renaissance artist and an influence on Michelangelo. These murals, which depicted military scenes, have not survived. In 1505, he began work on a planned group of 12 marble apostles for the Florence cathedral but abandoned the project when he was commissioned to design and sculpt a massive tomb for Pope Julius II in Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome. There were to have been 40 sculptures made for the tomb, but the pope soon ran out of funds for the project, and Michelangelo left Rome. In 1508, he was called back to Rome to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel--the chief consecrated space in the Vatican. Michelangelo's epic ceiling frescoes, which took several years to complete, are among his most memorable works. Central in a complex system of decoration featuring numerous figures are nine panels devoted to biblical world history. The most famous of these is The Creation of Adam, a painting in which the arms of God and Adam are outstretched toward each other. In 1512, Michelangelo completed the Sistine Chapel ceiling and returned to his work on Pope Julius II's tomb. He eventually completed a total of just three statues for the tomb, which was eventually placed in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli. The most notable of the three is Moses (1513-15), a majestic statue made from a block of marble regarded as unmalleable by other sculptors. In Moses, as in David, Michelangelo infused the stone with a powerful sense of tension and movement. Having revolutionized European sculpture and painting, Michelangelo turned to architecture in the latter half of his life. His first major architectural achievement was the Medici chapel in the Church of San Lorenzo in Florence, built to house the tombs of the two young Medici family heirs who had recently died. The chapel, which he worked on until 1534, featured many innovative architectural forms based on classical models. The Laurentian Library, which he built as an annex to the same church, is notable for its stair-hall, known as the ricetto, which is regarded as the first instance of mannerism as an architectural style. Mannerism, a successor to the Renaissance artistic movement, subverted harmonious classical forms in favor of expressiveness. In 1534, Michelangelo left Florence for the last time and traveled to Rome, where he would work and live for the rest of his life. That year saw his painting of the The Last Judgment on a wall above the altar in the Sistine Chapel for Pope Paul III. The massive painting depicts Christ's damnation of sinners and blessing of the virtuous, and is regarded as a masterpiece of early mannerism. During the last three decades of his life, Michelangelo lent his talents to the design of numerous monuments and buildings for Rome, which the pope and city leaders were determined to restore to the grandeur of its ancient past. The Capitoline Square and the dome of St. Peter's, designed by Michelangelo but not completed in his lifetime, remain two of Rome's most famous visual landmarks. Michelangelo worked until his death in 1564 at the age of 88. In addition to his major artistic works, he produced numerous other sculptures, frescoes, architectural designs, and drawings, many of which are unfinished and some of which are lost. He was also an accomplished poet, and some 300 of his poems are preserved. In his lifetime, he was celebrated as Europe's greatest living artist, and today he is held up as one of the greatest artists of all time, as exalted in the visual arts as William Shakespeare is in literature or Ludwig van Beethoven is in music.

Today in Television History 1977 - "An Evening With Diana Ross" aired on NBC-TV. 1978 - The 100th episode of "The Six Million Dollar Man" aired. 1981 - Walter Cronkite appeared on his last episode of "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite." He had been on the job 19 years. 1986 - The 100th episode of "Simon & Simon" aired on CBS. 1988 - The first episode of "In the Heat of the Night" aired. 1992 - The last episode of "The Cosby Show" aired. The show had been on since September of 1984.

STANLEY KUBRICK DIES: March 7, 1999 On March 7, 1999, American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick dies in Hertfordshire, England, at the age of 70. One of the most acclaimed film directors of the 20th century, Kubrick's 13 feature films explored the dark side of human nature. Born in New York City in 1928, Kubrick took up photography in high school and became a staff photographer for Look magazine at age 17. A photo assignment on boxing inspired him to make The Day of the Fight, a short documentary film about boxing, in 1951. The short was bought by a news service, and he made two more documentaries before making a short feature-length film, Fear and Desire (1953), which dealt with war. The movie, produced independently, received little attention outside New York, where critics praised Kubrick's directorial talents. Kubrick's next two feature films, Killer's Kiss (1955) and The Killing (1956), brought him to the attention of Hollywood, and in 1957 he directed actor Kirk Douglas in Paths of Glory, a story of military injustice in the French army during World War I. Douglas later enlisted Kubrick to take over production of Spartacus (1960), a historical epic about the slave rebellion led by the Roman slave Spartacus in 73 B.C. The film was a box office smash and won four Academy Awards, including Best Cinematography, which was attributed to Russell Metty but was largely Kubrick's work. Behind the scenes, the director's characteristic obsession with detail created some tension with the cast and crew. After Spartacus, he moved permanently to England, where he directed Lolita (1962), based on the controversial novel by Vladimir Nabokov. Two years later, Kubrick scored another major critical and commercial hit with Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Starring Peter Sellers and George C. Scott, Dr. Strangelove was a dark comedy about the nuclear arms race that earned Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor (Peter Sellers). Kubrick spent four years working on his next film, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), co-written with English writer Arthur C. Clarke. Now widely regarded as the greatest science fiction film ever made, 2001: A Space Odyssey won Kubrick a well-deserved Best Visual Effects Academy Award. Kubrick followed up 2001 with A Clockwork Orange (1971), a controversial social commentary set in the near future. It was given an X rating in the United States for its extreme violence and banned in the United Kingdom, but nonetheless received four Oscar nominations including Best Picture. Barry Lyndon (1975) was a picturesque movie based on the 19th-century novel by William Thackeray. Kubrick, who had become famous for his perfectionist tendencies, took a record 300 days just to shoot the film. The Shining (1980), starring Jack Nicholson as the caretaker of a mountain resort who goes insane, was hailed as a masterpiece of the horror genre. Full Metal Jacket (1987) addressed the Vietnam War and was another critical and commercial success. In 1997, after a 10-year absence from filmmaking, Kubrick began work on Eyes Wide Shut (1999), an enigmatic thriller starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. The director died soon after turning in his final cut of the film. Click here for More General Interest stories http://www.historychannel.com/today/

General Interest 1967 : Packers face Chiefs in first Super Bowl 1559 : Elizabeth crowned queen of England 1870 : First appearance of the Democratic donkey 1929 : Martin Luther King Jr. born 1970 : Qaddafi becomes premier of Libya 1970 : Biafra surrenders to Nigeria American Revolution 1777 : New Connecticut (Vermont) declares independence Automotive 1909 : Hearse used for first time 1927 : Dumbarton Bridge opens 1936 : Ford Foundation is established 1942 : First "blackout" Caddy is built Civil War 1865 : Fort Fisher falls Cold War 1953 : Dulles calls for "liberation of captive peoples" Crime 1981 : Hill Street Blues begins run Disaster 1919 : Molasses floods Boston streets Entertainment 1918 : Stan Laurel begins work at the Hal Roach studio 1974 : Happy Days premieres 1981 : Hill Street Blues premieres 1987 : Ray Bolger, Scarecrow, dies Literary 1831 : The Hunchback of Notre Dame is finished Old West 1933 : The utopian Amana colony embraces capitalism Presidential 1973 : Nixon suspends military action in North Vietnam Vietnam War 1962 : Kennedy says U.S. troops are not fighting 1973 : Nixon halts military action against North Vietnam Wall Street 1782 : Morris reports on young nation's finances 1975 : Ford gives "bad news" World War I 1919 : Rebel leaders are murdered in failed coup in Berlin World War II 1951 : The "Witch of Buchenwald" is sentenced to prison See more on our World Timeline

1776 The first public reading of the Declaration of Independence was given in Philadelphia, Pa. 1777 Vermont became the first colony to abolish slavery. 1889 The Wall Street Journal began publication. 1950 General Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of the United Nations forces in Korea. 1958 The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awarded the first official gold album. It was for the Oklahoma soundtrack. 1986 Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated as president of Austria.

July 21 in history 1861 Confederate forces won victory at Bull Run in the first major battle of the Civil War. 1873 The first train robbery west of the Mississippi was pulled off by Jesse James and his gang. 1925 In the "Monkey Trial," John T. Scopes was found guilty of violating Tennessee state law by teaching evolution. 1949 The U.S. Senate ratified the North Atlantic Treaty. 1970 The Aswan High Dam was opened in Egypt. 1998 Astronaut Alan Shepard died. 2002 WorldCom filed for bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.