Wednesday, November 16, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

NOVEMBER 16
1959:Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II debut The Sound of Music, their final musical together, at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater on Broadway. Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel star in the original production, loosely based on the memoirs of Maria von Trapp. Lyricist Hammerstein will die of cancer nine months after the premiere.

1532: Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro captures Incan emperor Atahualpa. Pizarro's men will massacre thousands of Incans, while Atahualpa will be forced to convert to Christianity and then murdered the following year.

2001: J.K. Rowling's tale of the boy wizard Harry Potter makes magic on the big screen for the first time, as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, starring 12-year-old Daniel Radcliffe as Harry, opens in cinemas across the United States.
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