This Day in History
1942: Premiere of Casablanca
Set in occupied Morocco during World War II, directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid, Casablanca premiered this day in 1942 and became one of Hollywood's most revered films.
More events on this day
1982: Nakasone Yasuhiro, leader of the Liberal-Democratic Party, was elected prime minister of Japan, replacing Suzuki Zenko.
1950: The People's Republic of China officially entered the Korean War on the side of North Korea.
1941: U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull sent a harsh notice to Japan, calling for a full withdrawal from China and Indochina.
1924: After the defeat of the White Russians and the Chinese, the Mongolian People's Republic was proclaimed.
1922: Charles Schulz, the creator of the popular comic strip Peanuts, was born.
1909: Eugène Ionesco, the Romanian-born French dramatist whose one-act “antiplay” La Cantatrice chauve (1949; The Bald Soprano) inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques and helped inaugurate the Theatre of the Absurd, was born.
1894: Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia, married Alexandra.
1883: Sojourner Truth, the African American evangelist and reformer who applied her religious fervour to the abolitionist and women's rights movements, died.
579: Pelagius II succeeded Benedict I as pope. |
