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Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison), Mark Antony (Richard Burton),
and Elizabeth Taylor as Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra |
Here are today's milestones:
Died on this day:
Vladimir Lenin (1924; born April 22, 1870) Russian revolutionary and political theorist;
State and Revolution;
Imperialism
George Orwell (1950; born June 25, 1903) English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic;
Animal Farm;
Nineteen Eighty-Four
Cecil B. DeMille (1959; born August 12, 1881) American filmmaker; silent movies
The Squaw Man;
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine; "talkies"
Cleopatra;
The Plainsman; "epics"
Samson and Delilah;
The Greatest Show on Earth (Academy Award, 1953);
The Ten Commandments
Bonus Classic:
Pliny the Younger (61-c. 113) Roman author who wrote
Letters
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