Today in 1945: Nagasaki was devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, was dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 39,000 people were killed outright.
Photo: Nagasaki in 2012.
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Born in 1924 – James Baldwin, American author, poet, playwright, and critic.
“One must say Yes to life, and embrace it wherever it is found – and it is found in terrible places…”
from The Fire Next Time, 1963.
Born in 1928 – Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer.
Born in 1948 – S. E. Hinton, American author.
Above: From the film adaptation of Hinton’s novel, The Outsiders.
Born in 1955 – Béla Tarr, Hungarian director, producer, and screenwriter.
Above: Still from the opening sequence of Tarr’s film Werckmeister Harmonies. (2000)
Born in 1930 – Jacques Derrida, Algerian-French philosopher and academic.
“Il n’y a pas de hors-texte.”
Born in 1912 – Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter.
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