100px|Jack Warner
Jack Warner (1892–1978) was a Canadian-born American film executive
who was the president and driving force behind the Warner Bros. Studios
in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. Warner's 45-year career was
longer than that of any other traditional Hollywood studio mogul. He
worked with his brother, Sam Warner, to procure the technology for the
film industry's first talking picture. Although Warner was feared by
many of his employees and inspired ridicule with his uneven attempts at
humor, he earned respect for his shrewd instincts and toughmindedness.
He recruited many of Warner Bros.' top stars and promoted the
hard-edged social dramas for which the studio became known. Although he
was a staunch Republican, Warner encouraged film projects that promoted
the agenda of Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. He
speedily grasped the threat posed by European fascism and criticized
Nazi Germany well before America's involvement in World War II. During
the postwar era Warner supported an anti-Communist crusade that
culminated in the "blacklisting" of Hollywood directors, actors,
screenwriters, and technicians. Despite his controversial public image,
Warner remained a force in the motion picture industry until his
retirement in the early 1970s. (more...)
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1896:
Miami, today the principal city and the center of the South Florida
metropolitan area, the seventh largest metro area in the United States,
was incorporated with a population of just over 300.
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1914:
Austria-Hungary declared war after rejecting Serbia's conditional
acceptance of only part of the July Ultimatum following the
assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, starting World
War I.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I>
1995:
Two followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh were convicted for the
attempted assassination of the United States Attorney for the District
of Oregon.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_Rajneeshee_assassination_plot>
2001:
At the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Australian Ian
Thorpe became the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single
World Championships.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Thorpe>
2010:
In the deadliest air accident in Pakistan history, Airblue Flight 202
crashed into the Margalla Hills north of Islamabad, killing all 152
aboard.
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