444 years ago, on the 15th of October 1582, the Gregorian calendar was first adopted causing many Catholic European countries to jump from the 4th to the 15th. The calendar was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII to regain a correct calculation of the date of Easter. #otd #history 🗃️

Richard: You better call me later on, by sundown.

Larry: "By sundown"? What are you, Gary Cooper?

📺 #OTD in #TV #History 15 October 2000, #LarryDavid's fantastic sitcom series #CurbYourEnthusiasm debuted on HBO.

"Shatner. I'd fight William Shatner."

🧼 #OTD in #Film #History 15 October 1999, #DavidFincher's bruising screen adaptation of #ChuckPalahniuk's novel FIGHT CLUB, starring #EdNorton and #BradPitt, hit 🇺🇸 cinemas.

"JOIN US!"

45th Anniversary 🪦#OTD in #Film #History 15 October 1981, #SamRaimi's cult #horror classic THE EVIL DEAD, starring #BruceCampbell, had its premiere at the Redford Theatre, Detroit, Michigan.

"I might as well be reaching for the moon."

🎞️ #OTD in #Film #History 15 October 1954, #BillyWilder's classic romantic comedy SABRINA, starring #AudreyHepburn, #HumphreyBogart, and #WilliamHolden, opened in the 🇺🇸

“A Bible for photographers.” (Robert Capa)

📸 #OTD in the #History of #Photography 15 October 1952, photographer #HenriCartierBresson's highly influential photography book "The Decisive Moment" was first published in the 🇺🇸 and 🇫🇷

"We think too much and feel too little."

🌍 #OTD in #Film #History 15 October 1940, #CharlieChaplin's superb satirical attack on fascism "The Great Dictator" opened in New York.

#Chaplin's magnificent final speech: ▶️ youtu.be/J7GY1Xg6X20?si…

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"There is a man cut in two by the window"

📖 #OTD in the #History of #Art and #Literature 15 October 1924, #AndreBreton published his influential "Surrealist Manifesto" through Éditions du Sagittaire in Paris. His definition of #surrealism is below...

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Automated Gondola
Augsburg
c1600

Bronze, gilded, wood, linen, silk, gold braid, pearls.

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"These fragments I have shored against my ruins."

📖 #OTD in the #History of #Literature 15 October 1922, #TSEliot's classic poem THE WASTE LAND was first published in the inaugural issue of 'The Criterion Quarterly Review' in the 🇬🇧

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"I am no man, I am dynamite."

📖 #OTD in the #History of #Philosophy 15 October 1888, #FriedrichNietzsche began to write his autobiography ECCE HOMO: How One Becomes What One Is, on what was his 44th birthday.

"How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?"

#OTD
15th October 1595
Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel, died in the Tower of London. Incarcerated for high treason, it was rumoured that he was poisoned by his cook. He was buried in the Tower chapel, St Peter ad Vincula.

#PhilipHoward #EarlofArundel #TheTowerofLondon #Tudors #History

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."

⚔️ #OTD in #History 15 October 1815, after nine weeks at sea onboard the HMS Northumberland, #Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on the island of St Helena to begin his final exile. He would endure for six years.

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15th October 1537
Three days after his birth, Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII and Jane Seymour, was christened in the Chapel Royal of Hampton Court Palace.

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#EdwardTudor #PrinceofWales #KingHenryVIII #JaneSeymour #Tudors #History

🩰 #OTD in #Dance #History 15 October 1581, the Ballet Comique de la Reine was held in the large hall of the Hôtel de la Bourbon. The elaborate court spectacle is held to have been the first #ballet de cour. It was commissioned by #CatherineDeMedici, King #HenryIII of France's mother.

Exterior view of the SAN JOSE POST OFFICE (and St. Joseph's Church) in San Jose. (c1895)
(Clyde Arbuckle Collection) #sanjose #history #ca

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