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16 hours ago · Pixar Animation Studios is an American CGI film production company based in Emeryville, California, United States.Pixar has produced 28 feature films, which were all released by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures through the Walt Disney Pictures banner, with its first being Toy Story (which was also the first theatrically released CGI-animated feature ever released) on November 22, 1995, and ...
16 hours ago · Signature. Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (13 August 1899 – 29 April 1980) was an English film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of cinema. [1] In a career spanning six decades, he directed over 50 feature films, [a] many of which are still widely watched and studied today.
16 hours ago · 1920 – John Willem Gran, Swedish bishop (d. 2008) 1921 – Christopher Hewett, English actor and theatre director (d. 2001) 1922 – Tom Finney, English footballer (d. 2014) 1922 – Harry Freedman, Polish-Canadian horn player, composer, and educator (d. 2005) 1922 – Andy Linden, American race car driver (d. 1987)
16 hours ago · The following notable deaths in the United States occurred in 2024.Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order as set out in WP:NAMESORT.A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth and subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, year of birth (if known), and reference.
16 hours ago · Major Evan David Powell-Jones (465821), 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles. Captain John Wallace Rainey (494747), Corps of Royal Engineers. Major Richard Noel Randell (112949), The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) (Now Retired).
16 hours ago · Today in Music History for July 6: In 1925, Bill Haley, rock 'n' roll's first teen idol, was born in Highland Park, Mich. Haley, with his group, "The Saddlemen," at first played country-and-western, but in 1952 he dropped the cowboy image and changed the band's name to "The Comets." Haley began ...
16 hours ago · In 1777, a British force under General John Burgoyne captured Fort Ticonderoga, New York. In 1809, French troops arrested Pope Pius VII, who had excommunicated Emperor Napoleon I. In 1852, a fire in Montreal destroyed more than a thousand buildings. In 1854, the Republican Party came into being at a convention in Jackson, Mich.
