Tuesday, 3 April 2018

Sci-Fi Trivia: April 3rd.

Events on this day: April 3rd.

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 1926 – Andrew Keir, actor who has appeared in Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., Quatermass and the Pit, Five Million Years to Earth, and H.G.Wells’ Invisible Man)

Born on this day in 1926 – Timothy Bateson, actor who has made appearances in Doctor Who, The Evil of Frankenstein, an The Day the Earth Caught Fire



Born on this day in 1928 – Kevin Hagen, actor who has appeared in Land of the Giants, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel, Lost in Space, and the Twilight Zone
 
Born on this day in 1937 – William Gaunt, actor amongst his many roles are appearances in Doctor Who, and Out of this World)

Cthulhu Mythos Trivia:

A man named Roy Leakey visits euthanasia-favoring Dr. Linwood to ask for assisted suicide. He is recorded as relating, as the background for his desire for suicide, a terrifying experience in the town of Goatswood. After Linwood asks for further proof of Leakey's need to die, he is found by other doctors and nurses, screaming and alone. ("The Moon-Lens," Campbell)




CS Lewis Trivia:

On this day in 1960 - Subsequent to learning of the return of Joy’s cancer, Jack and Joy, together with Roger Lancelyn Green and his wife, Joy, went to Greece from April 3 to April 14, visiting Athens, Mycenae, Rhodes, Herakleon, and Knossos. There was a one-day stop in Pisa on the return. Joy died on July 13 at the age of 45, not long after their return from Greece.

And in the Horror genre:

On this day in 1962 - Jennifer Rubin (actress in numerous horror films)was born

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