April 8, 1990 – This was the night that David Lynch’s Twin Peaks premiered on ABC. The fictional drama revolved around an investigation into the murder of a homecoming queen (Laura Palmer) in Washington state.
With bizarre characters and unpredictable plot twists, the show attracted a cult following and critical acclaim. As the storylines got [...]
March 8, 1941 – Novelist and short story writer, Sherwood Anderson died on this day from peritonitis. He had swallowed a broken toothpick inside a martini olive.
At the time of his death, Anderson was in the Panama Canal zone, a very long way from his birthplace of Camden, Ohio.
Born in 1876, he grew up in a large, [...]
February 22, 1943 – At 5PM on this day, 21-year-old Sophie Scholl was the first of three to die in the guillotine for involvement with the White Rose, a non-violent resistance movement against the Nazis.
In 1942 Sophie’s father had been jailed for negative comments he had made to a coworker about the Nazi regime. [...]
