@atticusfinch-105.bsky.socialFebruary 24, 1983, director Blake Edwards held auditions in Burbank, California, for his upcoming film The Man Who Loved Women, starring Burt Reynolds.
Women of all ages were invited to audition.
Photo: Bob Riha Jr./Getty Images
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social“SAFE FOR ONLY 25 MEN AT ONE TIME.”
This was the warning posted on a temporary walkway during construction of New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, photographed in 1877.
The Brooklyn Bridge officially opened on May 24, 1883.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.socialApril 1911, the image shows RMS Olympic in the Thompson Graving Dock at Harland & Wolff’s shipyard in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Shipyard workers pose beneath the enormous propellers of Titanic’s sister ship.
📸 Robert Welch.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social19 October 1917
Siegfried Sassoon writes to Robert Graves ‘I am so glad you like Owen’s poem. I will tell him to send you on any decent stuff he does. His work is very unequal, and you can help him a great deal.’
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social19 October 1917
Poet Edmund Blunden leaves the trenches ‘my company was halting in the open, near Hunwater Dugout. At once the Germans fired so many illuminants that the ground with its pools was like a jeweller’s shop’
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social19 October 1985
The first Blockbuster Video store opened in Dallas, Texas.
Its original inventory reportedly included 8,000 VHS tapes and 2,000 Betamax tapes, launching a video-rental empire.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social19 October 1984
Crimes of Passion starring Kathleen Turner and Anthony Perkins opened.
Directed by Ken Russell, the provocative thriller paired Turner as a fashion designer leading a secret double life with Perkins as a mysterious preacher determined to expose her.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social19 October 1977
Looking for Mr. Goodbar starring Diane Keaton opened.
Based on Judith Rossner's bestselling novel, the controversial drama explored the nightlife and dangers faced by a schoolteacher searching for connection in 1970s New York.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social19 October 2001
The Last Castle starring Robert Redford opened.
Redford plays a highly decorated Army general imprisoned in a military facility who challenges its corrupt warden, played by James Gandolfini.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.socialThis highlights how Carlsberg-Britvic have destroyed our much loved British brewing heritage.
The House of Commons sleeps as British Brewing dies a slow and painful death
@howarthm.bsky.social#HistoryMatters eh, but #Kemi not up to speed...
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social19 October 1216
King John of England died. He was king from 1199 until his death. He lost the Duchy of Normandy and most of his other French lands to Philip II of France. It was a revolt by barons that led to him sealing the historic Magna Carta in 1215.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social19 October 1914
Under the Defence of The Realm Act (DORA), pubs were required to close at 10 PM. The government was increasingly concerned about increased alcohol consumption in areas of the country vital to the war effort.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social19 October 1989
Guildford Four: Gerard “Gerry” Conlan, Paul Hill, Patrick “Paddy” Armstrong and Carole Richardson, originally found guilty in 1975 of pub bombings in Guildford, had their convictions quashed by the Court of Appeal.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social19 October 1981
UK No.1 on this day: Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin - It's My Party
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social19 October 1918 Private Herbert Booth (5089) 9 Bn Manchester Regiment was killed in action and buried in Le Cateau Military Cemetery.
Herbert is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
@stevethedogcivics.bsky.social
“This isn't ‘both sides’ and this isn't normal politics and they're not a normal political party. They are anti-democratic.”
@jbf1755.bsky.social
𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘦𝘤𝘬 𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘏𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥?
October 18, 2026
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Steve
#HistoryMatters #FactsMatter @hcrichardson.bsky.social
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social19 October 2025
Pieces of the French Crown Jewels are successfully stolen during a heist on the Louvre Museum in Paris.
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social19 October 2005
Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
