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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