today in history

[curiousa2z]

September 29, 1930

Dracula film
Filming begins on the classic horror film Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi. Lugosi was born in Hungary, where he made a name for himself on stage and screen. In 1921, he emigrated to the United States and in 1927 scored a great stage success playing the title role in the play Dracula. The film version of Dracula was so successful that Lugosi was identified with the role for the rest of his life. He spent the next 20 years starring in horror films. When he died in 1956, Lugosi was buried with his Dracula cape.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

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[Ishcabittle]

mr lugosi was badass, he would learn his lines phonetically before he learned english.

 

[Dual]

480 BCE: The Battle of Salamis
After the Persian Empire captures the evacuated Athens, the navies of Persia and the Greek city states battle off the island of Salamis in the Saronic Gulf. Although heavily outnumbered, due to a superior position the Greeks score a decisive victory, and Xerxes withdraws to Asia with the greater part of his army, leaving Mardonius behind with a token force, which would be finished off the next year at Plataea.

 

[curiousa2z]

^no way that's cooler than Bela Lugosi!

 

[CaptainWacky]

I want to see the gorilla movie.