CARLATA BRADLEY

John Carpenter’s "Halloween" premiered, sending chills
across small towns nationwide.

Jamie Lee Curtis, 19 at the time, was paid only $8,000 for
her film debut.

Halloween spawned a film franchise comprising 13 films
which helped construct an extensive backstory for Michael
Myers.

Jamie Lee Curtis will be 67 years young on November 22.

Nick Castle played Michael Meyers right.

Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest and most influential artists
of the 20th century, is born in Malaga, Spain.

Picasso’s father was a professor of drawing, and he bred his
son for a career in academic art.

Picasso had his first exhibit at age 13 and later quit art school
so he could experiment full-time with modern art styles.

The work of Picasso, which comprises more than 50,000
paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures, and ceramics
produced over 80 years, a series of overlapping periods.

On October 24, 1901, a 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie
Edson Taylor (above) became the first person to successfully
take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive.

Her motives were financial but she never made much money
from her adventure.

No matter the method, going over Niagara Falls is illegal, and
survivors face charges and stiff fines on either side of the
border.

Taylor, on her 63rd birthday, was accompanied by her cat.

Annie Edson Taylor (October 24, 1838 – April 29, 1921)

The supersonic Concorde jet made its last commercial
passenger flight, traveling at twice the speed of sound
from New York City’s John F. Kennedy International
Airport to London’s Heathrow Airport on October 24,
2003.

A large crowd of spectators greeted the plane’s arrival in
London, which coincided with two other final Concorde
flights from Edinburgh and the Bay of Biscay.