Events
- The Three Stooges make their 190th and last short film, Sappy Bull Fighters.
- September 18 - The Marx Brothers' Zeppo Marx marries his second wife, Barbara Blakely.
- November 18 - William Wyler's film Ben-Hur premieres at Loews Theater in New York City.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. and May Britt start dating.
- The film of Mise Éire, made by George Morrison for Gael Linn, is premiered at the Cork Film Festival, the first feature-length Irish language film.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“By many a legendary tale of violence and wrong, as well as by events which have passed before their eyes, these people have been taught to look upon white men with abhorrence.... I can sympathize with the spirit which prompts the Typee warrior to guard all the passes to his valley with the point of his levelled spear, and, standing upon the beach, with his back turned upon his green home, to hold at bay the intruding European.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)
“Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.”
—William James (18421910)