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October 17, 1091: The 1st recorded tornado struck London. The wooden London Bridge was completely demolished and over 600 houses were destroyed. It has been estimated by modern assessment as possibly an F4 on the Fujita scale.


Tornadoes in Mediaeval Britain

Given today's weather modification boys and lord knows what they might unleash next, BIAD is digging a bunker beneath the garden shed. Ignore the dirt piles.


October 17, 1918: Margarita Carmen Dolores Cansino aka Rita Hayworth was born in Brooklyn, New York. She appeared in 61 films over a 37 year career and was one of the most glamorous screen idols & dancers of the Hollywood Golden Age, becoming the top pin-up girl for American GIs during World War II and a Hollywood legend. She died May 14, 1987 of Alzheimer's disease. Since 1981 she had been under the care of her second daughter, Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, (her second husband was Prince Aly Khan; daughter-in-law to Aga Khan III, the spiritual leader of 9 million Ismaili Muslims in Pakistan) who by publicizing her mother's tragic illness had drawn national and international attention to Alzheimer's disease, about which little was known.

The definitive Hayworth film is undoubtedly Gilda (1946), in which she appeared opposite Glenn Ford, her frequent costar. A classic of film noir, Gilda featured Hayworth as the quintessential “noir woman,” a duplicitous temptress and an abused victim in equal measure. A daring, quirky film for its time, Gilda was rife with sexually suggestive imagery and dialogue (such as Hayworth’s “If I’d been a ranch, they would have named me the Bar Nothing”) and featured Hayworth’s striptease to the song “Put the Blame on Mame,” perhaps the actress’s most famous film scene.

A few months before Pearl Harbor was attacked, LIFE magazine ran a black-and-white photograph of an up-and-coming movie actress named Rita Hayworth. The redheaded beauty was kneeling on a bed made up with satin sheets, her silky nightgown is white, with black lace trimming the low-cut top.

Bob Landry, the photographer, took many photos of Hayworth, but his favorite was an accidental one – his flash was too bright and this is mirrored in the black silhouette reflected at Hayworth’s back. However, Landry thought this added more depth and mysterious allure to the picture and submitted it to the magazine.

Four months after Hayworth’s photo was published, America went to war. And soldiers took the silk-and-lace picture along to remind them of home. Eventually, the picture became one of the most famous and most frequently reproduced American pinup images ever.

By the end of the war, more than 5 million copies of this photo were sold. The US Navy named her, “The Red-Head We Would Most Like to be Ship-Wrecked with”.

World War II was the golden age of pinups. For the first time in history, the US military unofficially sanctioned the creation and distribution of pinup pictures, magazines, and calendars to troops in order to raise morale and remind young men what they were fighting for. These vintage WWII pinup posters adorned servicemen’s lockers, the walls of barracks, and even the sides of planes.

The story behind Rita Hayworth’s iconic pin-up photo, 1941

October 17, 1939: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington premiered in Constitution Hall in Washington DC 85 years ago today, starring Jimmy Stewart and 'birthday girl' Jean Arthur (October 17, 1900 - 1991).




October 17, 1968: Peter Yates' Bullitt was release. A landmark film that redefined the police thriller not only with respect to its procedural realism but also through setting the bar with its thrilling automotive pursuit sequence. According to Peter Yates, Steve McQueen made a point to keep his head near the open car window during the famous chase scene so that audiences would be reassured that it was he, not a stunt man, who was driving. The famous car chase lasts ten minutes and fifty-three seconds.

Several items of clothing worn by McQueen received a boost in popularity thanks to the film: desert boots, a trench coat, a blue turtleneck sweater and a brown tweed jacket with elbow patches.

According to McQueen, "The thing we tried to achieve was not to do a theatrical film, but a film about reality."

Frank Bullitt's car is a 1968 Ford Mustang 390 GT 2+2 Fastback. The bad guys drive a 1968 Dodge Charger 440 Magnum.


After the filming was complete, '559 was repaired and repainted with a single coat of Highland Green, and sold to Warner Bros. employee Robert Ross. Ross drove it until 1970, then sold it to Frank Marranca, who had it shipped from California to New Jersey. In 1974, Marranca sold the car to Robert Kiernan through an ad in Road & Track. In 1977, Steve McQueen attempted to buy it back, but was refused. The Kiernans drove it for 46,000 miles as their family car, then hid it away for decades in storage in 1980. Kiernan's son, Sean, began to restore the vehicle in 2014, and had it authenticated in 2016, with documentation that included McQueen's letter offering to purchase it. In January 2018, the original green Mustang GT from the film was brought out into the spotlight (after being in hiding for decades by the NJ owners) on stage at the Detroit Motor Show with Ford to introduce the new 2019 'Bullitt' Mustang.

On January 10, 2020, the car was sold by Mecum Auctions for $3.74 million to an unidentified buyer.

In February 2022, it was announced that Steven Spielberg will be directing and producing a new film centered on the Frank Bullitt character for Warner Bros. Pictures, with Josh Singer writing the screenplay. The film will be an original story, not a remake of the original film. Chad McQueen and niece Molly McQueen (son and granddaughter of Steve) will be executive producers.[69] In November 2022, it was announced that Bradley Cooper was cast as Frank Bullitt. Apparently, still in development, no word on release.



October 17, 1978: The 1st episode of the innovative 10-part scientific documentary series, Connections, written and presented by science historian, James Burke, was broadcast on BBC1. It attempted to show how major scientific changes were interconnected...interlinked.




October 17, 1983: Making Music with a Joy Stick / End of the Ride - Severing the ARPANET. The Gov't put an end to the joyride. It broke ARPANET into 2 separate systems. MILNET for military users and RADNET for civilians.




October 17, 2016: during a speech on ethics reform, Donald Trump announced, “It is time to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C.” A day later, he repeated the phrase in a tweet, adding the hashtag #draintheswamp for good measure. It was late in the campaign for a new slogan, but soon audiences around the country were chanting it.


Draining the Swamp And the beat goes on.


Election interference? GTFO, you bloody parasites. You sure you wanna do this again?



Well, I guess to be fair we used Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey to help Labour influence British politics regarding the Iraq War. They made a little jaunt over after *that Africa trip* on *that plane*.


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