jseal,

Clavel was a prolific writer, but Paul Brickhill wrote "The Great Escape", while "To Sir with Love" was ER Braithewaite.

He directed "To Sir with Love" and wrote the screenplay for "Escape".

Oldfart,

Misplaced writing credits! I shall revise for the future. The Great Escape, To Sir with Love

Thank your sir. :)

No sweat, jseal.

You do a fine job with this thread, but can't let you get too comfortable LOL.

September 8th
 

828 ~ Birthday of Ali al-Hadi, Shia Imam

1636 ~ Harvard College founded as the first college in the Americas.

1841 ~ Birthday of Antonin Dvorak, Composer.

1886 ~ Birthday of Siegfried Sassoon, Poet

1925 ~ Birthday of Peter Sellers, Actor (A Shot in the Dark, Dr. Strangelove, The Pink Panther, etc.).

1930 ~ 3M began marketing Scotch transparent tape.

1944 ~ London was hit by a V2 rocket for the first time.

1949 ~ Death of Richard Strauss, Composer.

1966 ~ The first episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek aired.

1974 ~ President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former President Nixon.

September 9th
 

1585 ~ Birthday of Cardinal Armand-Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu, French statesman.

1754 ~ Birthday of William Bligh, British naval officer.

1776 ~ The Continental Congress officially named their new country the United States.

1824 ~ Birthday of Anton Bruckner, Austrian Composer.

1828 ~ Birthday of Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace).

1839 ~ John Herschel took the first astronomical glass plate photograph.

1945 ~ Admiral Grace Hopper discovered the first computer bug.

1956 ~ Elvis Presley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.

1976 ~ Death of Mao Zedong, leading architect of the Chinese Communist Revolution.

2001 ~ Ahmed Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, was assassinated in Afghanistan.

September 10th
 

1846 ~ Elias Howe of Spencer, Mass., received a patent for the sewing machine.

1939 ~ World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley was sunk by mistake by the submarine HMS Trition off the coast of Norway and became the first loss of the Royal Navy.

1942 ~ Birthday of Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist.

1943 ~ World War II: German forces began their occupation of Rome.

1945 ~ Vidkun Quisling sentenced to death for collaboration with Nazi Germany.

1960 ~ Birthday of Colin Firth, Actor (Shakespeare in Love, Bridget Jones's Diary, Love Actually)

1971 ~ Death of Nikita Khrushchev, Premier of the Soviet Union.

1977 ~ Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of murder, became the last person to be executed by the guillotine in France.

1990 ~ The Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro, the largest church in Africa and perhaps the world, consecrated by Pope John Paul II.

2002 ~ Switzerland became the 190th member of the United Nations.

September 11th
 

1297 ~ William Wallace led a Scottish army to defeat the English in the Battle of Stirling Bridge.

1711 ~ Birthday of William Boyce, Composer.

1914 ~ In one of the earlier military engagements of WWI, Australian forces defeat Germans in New Britain.

1922 ~ British Mandate of Palestine began.

1948 ~ Death of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, first Governor-General of Pakistan.

1962 ~ The Beatles recorded their debut single, Love Me Do.

1973 ~ A military coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet toppled elected Marxist President Salvador Allende.

1987 ~ CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather, angry over being preempted for a tennis match, marched off the set, leaving affiliates with six minutes of an empty news desk.

1997 ~ Scotland voted to re-establish its own Parliament after 290 years of union with England and the 700th anniversary of the Battle of Stirling Bridge.

2001 ~ The September 11 terrorist attacks destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City, part of The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., and crashed a passenger airliner in Pennsylvania. In total, almost 3,000 are killed.

September 12th
 

490 B.C. ~ Athenians defeated Persians at the Battle of Marathon.

1814 ~ War of 1812: An American detachment halted the British land advance to Baltimore in the Battle of North Point.

1880 ~ Birthday of H.L. Mencken, Journalist, Author.

1888 ~ Birthday of Maurice Chevalier, Singer, Actor (Gigi, Thank Heaven For Little Girls).

1933 ~ Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, came up with the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.

1940 ~ Cave paintings discovered in Lascaux, France.

1959 ~ Bonanza premiered. First regularly-scheduled TV program presented in color.

1977 ~ Death of Steve Biko, South African anti-apartheid activist.

2003 ~ The U.N. Security Council lifted sanctions against Libya after Libya agreed to accept responsibility and make payment of US $2.7 billion to the families of victims in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

2003 ~ Death of Johnny Cash, Country Music Great.

September 13th
 

1321 ~ Death of Dante Alighieri, writer (The Divine Comedy)

1819 ~ Birthday of Clara Schumann, Pianist, Composer.

1857 ~ Birthday of Milton S. Hershey, chocolate entrepreneur and founder of the Hershey Chocolate Company.

1874 ~ Birthday of Arnold Schoenberg, Composer.

1939 ~ Canada entered World War II.

1948 ~ Margaret Chase Smith was elected senator, and became the first woman to serve in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.

1971 ~ Frank Robinson became the 11th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland.

1977 ~ Death of Leopold Stokowski, Conductor.

1893 ~ Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands on a peace deal.

1999 ~ A bomb exploded in Moscow, killing some 119 people.

September 14th
 

1737 ~ Birthday of Michael Haydn, Austrian composer.

1752 ~ The British Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar, skipping eleven days (September 2 was followed directly by September 14 that year).

1760 ~ Birthday of Luigi Cherubini, Composer.

1814 ~ Francis Scott Key wrote The Star-Spangled Banner (‘though not the melody).

1927 ~ Death of Isadora Duncan, Dancer.

1948 ~ Ground was broken in New York City for the United Nations' world headquarters.

1959 ~ The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashed onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.

1975 ~ The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, was canonized by Pope Paul VI.

1982 ~ Death of Princess Grace of Monaco.

2005 ~ A federal judge in San Francisco ruled the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools unconstitutional.

September 15th
 

1254 ~ Birthday of Marco Polo, Italian explorer.

1789 ~ Birthday of James Fenimore Cooper, American novelist.

1928 ~ Alexander Fleming noticed a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.

1935 ~ The Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship and made the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany.

1950 ~ The UN staged its fist offensive operation in the Korean War; an amphibious assault at Inchon.

1963 ~ The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing kills four children in Birmingham, Alabama.

1975 ~ Papua New Guinea gained independence from Australia.

1977 ~ Death of Maria Callas, Opera Diva.

1981 ~ The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Sandra Day O'Connor to the U. S. Supreme Court.

1982 ~ The first issue of USA Today is published.

September 16th
 

In honor of jseal....who is out having fun this weekend...


1810 ~ Fr. Miguel Hidalgo proclaimed Mexico's independence from Spain.

1736 ~ Death of Gabriel Fahrenheit, German Physicist.

1795 ~ British captured Capetown South Africa.

1940 ~ Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Selective Training and Service Act.

1956 ~ Play-Doh was first introduced.

1959 ~ French President De Gaulle recognized Algerian right of self determination.

1968 ~ Candidate Richard Nixon appeared on Laugh-in.

1974 ~ U.S. President Ford announced a conditional amnesty program for Vietnam War deserters and draft evaders.

1987 ~ The Montreal Protocol was signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.

1996 ~ Howard Stern Radio Show premiered.

September 17th
 

1394 ~ King Charles VI of France ordered all Jews expelled from France.

1640 ~ Boston, Massachusetts is incorporated.

1787 ~ The text of the U.S. Constitution was completed in Philadelphia.

1862 ~ Union forces repelled a Confederate invasion of Maryland in the Civil War Battle of Antietam.

1908 ~ Death of Lt. Thomas Selfridge, first to die in an airplane crash.

1929 ~ Birthday of Sir Stirling Moss, Formula One racer.

1939 ~ The Soviet Union joined Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland.

1970 ~ Civil war broke out in Jordan.

1978 ~ The Camp David Accords were signed by Israeli and Egyptian representatives.

1991 ~ North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia joined the United Nations.


Feastdays & Holidays


Feast Day of Hildegard of Bingen, recording artist.

September 18th
 

1709 ~ Birthday of Samuel Johnson, Essayist & Critic.

1759 ~ The British capture Quebec City.

1819 ~ Birthday of Leon Foucault, Physicist.

1927 ~ Columbia Broadcasting System went on the air.

1961 ~ Death of Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the UN.

1970 ~ Death of Jimi Hendrix, Rock Musician.

1971 ~ Birthday of Lance Armstrong, Cyclist Extraordinaire.

1975 ~ Patty Hearst was arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.

1990 ~ Liechtenstein became a member of the UN.

1998 ~ ICANN was formed.

September 19th
 

1737 ~ Birthday of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Declaration of Independence Signer, Senator.

1796 ~ George Washington made his farewell address.

1900 ~ Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid robbed the First National Bank of $32,640.

1934 ~ Bruno Hauptmann was arrested for the murder of Charles Lindbergh Junior.

1935 ~ Death of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, rocket scientist, physicist.

1941 ~ Birthday of Mama Cass Elliott, musician.

1945 ~ Lord Haw Haw (William Joyce) sentenced to death in London.

1955 ~ Juan Peron was deposed in Argentina.

1989 ~ A terrorist bomb exploded in a UTA DC-10 above Niger killing 171.

1991 ~ Ötzi the Iceman was discovered by German tourists.