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Madonna, aged 42, married Guy Ritchie, who was ten years
her junior, in a ceremony steeped in the groom’s Scottish heritage.
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22
Dec
HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
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22
Dec
FIRST BORN IN CAPTIVITY ON THIS DAY
On December 22, 1956, a baby gorilla named Colo entered the
world at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, becoming the first-ever
gorilla born in captivity. Weighing in at approximately 4 pounds,
Colo, a western lowland gorilla whose name was a combination
of Columbus and Ohio, was the daughter of Millie and Mac, two
gorillas captured in French Cameroon, Africa, who were brought
to the Columbus Zoo in 1951.
Before Colo’s birth, gorillas found at zoos were caught in the
wild, often by brutal means. In order to capture a gorilla when
it was young and therefore still small enough to handle, hunters frequently had to kill the gorilla’s parents and other family
members.
Mother Millie with her daughter Colo who died in 2017.
21
Dec
MOVIE OPENING BEGAN THIS DAY IN 1967
The film The Graduate opened at two theaters in New York:
the Coronet on Third Avenue and the Lincoln Art Theater
on Broadway.
The film, based on a 1963 novel by Charles Webb, had a
simple premise: As its screenwriter explained it, “this kid
graduates college, has an affair with his parents’ best friend
and then falls in love with the friend’s daughter.”
Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman starred in the film that
received seven nominations at the 40th Academy Awards,
including for Best Picture and Best Director, the latter being
the film’s sole win.
The movie is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most
influential films of all time.
(From Wikipedia)
21
Dec
AN OUTSTANDING FIELD COMMANDER DIED
General George S. Patton, commander of the U.S. 3rd Army,
died in his sleep of pulmonary edema and congestive heart
failure from injuries suffered, not in battle, but in a freak car
accident at the age of 60.
While some have mourned what was a tragic loss at the time,
others over the decades have theorized Patton’s death was
anything but an accident.
Fueling speculation that the accident involving a U.S. Army
truck was not an accident but a coordinated assassination.
A soldier inspects the damage to the car General Patton was riding in when the accident that would prove fatal occurred.
The damage to the front end of the vehicle was substantial.
On the beach at Gela, Sicily, in 1943.
21
Dec
THE FIRST GAME WAS PLAYED ON THIS DAY
On December 21, 1891, 30-year-old James Naismith (above)
introduced the first game of basketball. Based on 13 rules
created by Naismith, the game was tested by 18 students at
the International Young Men’s Christian Association Training
School in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Two teams of nine players each compete against each other,
with the objective to throw a soccer ball into a peach basket
attached to a balcony 10 feet above the floor.
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