in History
A victorious general honors Rome's queen goddess
On the Aventine Hill, the great general Marcus Furius Camillus dedicated the Temple of Juno Regina, fulfilling a vow made during the siege of Veii. The dedication honored the queen of the Roman gods and celebrated one of Rome's most important early victories. Camillus, later hailed as the second founder of Rome, was cementing both divine favor and his own legendary status.
A rocket hits the moon's eye on screen
The first science fiction film in history, Georges Melies's A Trip to the Moon, was released in France. Inspired by Jules Verne, the fourteen-minute film featured its iconic image of a capsule lodged in the eye of a personified moon. The imaginative, effects-laden production launched an entirely new genre of cinema that would captivate audiences for over a century.
Ernest Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea, which later won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, was first published.
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature.