Interesting tidbits: 1787 – William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, two moons of Uranus. 1838 - The first public demonstration of a telegraph message was sent using dots & dashes at Speedwell Ironworks, Morristown, New Jersey by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail. 1849 - Elizabeth Blackwell becomes the first woman in the US to earn a medical degree. 1864 - Charing Cross Station opens in London. 1919 - Romania annexes Transylvania. 1935 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California. Todays birthday crew: 1905 – Manfred Bennington Lee, American author. Ellery Queen is both a fictional character and a pseudonym used by two American cousins from Brooklyn, New York — Daniel Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay (October 20, 1905 – September 3, 1982) and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee (January 11, 1905 – April 3, 1971) — to write, edit, and anthologize detective fiction. The fictional Ellery Queen created by Dannay and Lee is a mystery writer and amateur detective who helps his father, a New York City police inspector, solve baffling murders. 1923 – Jerome Bixby, American short story writer, editor and scriptwriter, best known for his work in science fiction. He was the editor of Planet Stories from Summer 1950 to July 1951. He is most famous for the 1953 story Its a Good Life which was the basis for a 1961 episode of The Twilight Zone and which was included in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), and parodied in the Simpsons Halloween 1991 episode Treehouse of Horror II. Bixby wrote the original screenplay for 1958s It! The Terror from Beyond Space, which was the inspiration for 1979s Alien. He also wrote four Star Trek episodes: Mirror, Mirror, Day of the Dove, Requiem for Methuselah, and By Any Other Name. He co-wrote the story upon which the classic sci-fi movie Fantastic Voyage (1966), television series, and novel by Isaac Asimov were based. Bixbys last work, a screenplay The Man From Earth, was conceived in the early 1960s and completed on his deathbed in April 1998. In 2007, Jerome Bixbys The Man From Earth was turned into an independent motion picture executive produced by his son Emerson Bixby. Happy birthday guys!
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 11:26:07 +0000
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