Events on this day:
March27th.
This is a small
selection of science fiction and horror related events that have
happened on this day over the years.
Born on this day in
1907 – Mary Treen, actress who appeared in I Married a Monster from
Outer Space.
Born on this day in
1914 – Richard Denning, actor who has appeared in Target Earth,
Creature With the Atom Brain, Day the World Ended, The Black
Scorpion, and Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Born on this day in
1923– Lorenzo Semple Jr., Flash Gordon(1980) and TV's Batman
writer.
Born on this day in
1937 – Sylvia Anderson, writer - Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and
the Mysterons from Mars, Space:1999, UFO, Joe 90, Stingray, and
Fireball XL5.
Born on this day in
1935 – Julian Glover, actor who has appeared in Alien Uprising,
Doctor Who, Blakes 7, Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes
Back, Space: 1999, Five Million Years to Earth, and Out of this
World.
On this day in 2012
– Warren Stevens, actor, died aged 92 he has appeared in Forbidden
Planet, The Time Tunnel, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Star Trek,
Cyborg 2087, The Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, On the Threshold of
Space, and Men in Space.
In Star Trek he
appeared as the Kelvan named Rojan in the second season episode "By
Any Other Name".
Cthulhu Mythos
Trivia:
March 27 - Edith
Brendall disappears in Bonn; eight days later, her body is discovered
in the Rhine. ("Darkness, My Name Is," Bertin)
Tolkien Trivia
27-29 March 1939
Tolkien was in London for three days code and cipher training. He was
at that time a professor at Oxford and was one of the hand picked
individuals who the Government Code and Cypher School hoped might be
suitable to jin the organisation in the event of war.
He is reported to
have been "keen" to take part in such work but he was not
selected.
The GCHQ website
says that the reason for this is not known but the GCHQ puzzle book
states that at the time the service was looking for mathematicians
rather than linguists.
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