Evan Hunter #botd — The American author of crime and mystery fiction is best known for his 87th Precinct novels, published under the pen name Ed McBain, which are considered staples of police procedural genre...

The night sky above the Indian Astronomical Observatory in Hanle, a remote Himalayan village in Ladakh, which has some of the darkest skies on Earth...

The Cuban Missile Crisis began #otd in 1962, and the 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union is widely considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into full-scale nuclear war...

American photographer and filmmaker Paul Strand #botd, along with fellow modernist photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, helped establish photography as an art form in the 20th century...

Federico Fellini, Marcello Mastroianni and Nico (Christa Päffgen) #botd filming La Dolce Vita

"I pick up a script and I think, 'Oh my God, how are we going to do that?' And then we get to the point when the play opens — and we've done it. That's what gives me a buzz." Alison Chitty #botd Award-winning production designer

"If I see an ending, I can work backwards...." Arthur Miller #botd

In Gilda, her gestures, knowing smile, and tousled hair make an electrifying impression to this day. She understood what she was doing, and understood exactly what it was she was toppling... Rita Hayworth #botd

Luiz Bonfá #botd, noted Brazilian guitarist and composer, played a pivotal role in the introduction of bossa nova. In a career spanning four decades, he is perhaps best known for the music he composed for the film Black Orpheus...

“If, at the close of business each evening, I myself can understand what I've written, I feel the day hasn't been totally wasted…” S J Perelman February 1, 1904 – October 17, 1979 📷 Groucho Marx, S J Perelman and Kenneth Tynan

Bullitt was released in the United States on October 17, 1968. Its car chase sequence is regarded as one of the most influential in film history...

"While Diane Keaton will be remembered for the charm of her attitude toward comedy, it’s the essential goodness that characterizes all her work, the sunshine that breaks through the fog of confusion, that will stay with us most powerfully..." — Hilton Als

Francis Ford Coppola’s first film in the series is still an epic, full of hypnotic acting, which reinvented mafia criminals as players in a dynastic psychodrama...

The acclaimed performance of Melina Mercouri #botd in Never on Sunday won her the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1960 and an Academy Award nomination. She served as Greece's culture minister from 1981 to 1989, the first woman to hold the post.

Chuck Berry #botd, was rock ’n’ roll’s first guitar hero and poet. A lively, perfect fit of street-talk to music...

"Acting is the process of two entities merging, the actor and the role..." George C Scott #botd

Wynton Marsalis #botd — Creator and performer of an expansive range of music from quartets to big bands, chamber music ensembles to symphony orchestras and tap dance to ballet, expanding the vocabulary for jazz and classical music with a vital body of work...

October 18, 2019 — NASA Astronaut Christina Koch makes the first all-female spacewalk when she ventures out of the International Space Station to replace a power controller...