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Today in History
Today is Sunday, July 11, the 192nd day of 2021. There are 173 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 11, 1995, the U.N.-designated “safe haven” of Srebrenica (sreh-breh-NEET’-sah) in Bosnia-Herzegovina fell to Bosnian Serb forces, who then carried out the killings of more than 8,000 Muslim men and boys.
On this date:
In 1798, the U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established by a congressional act that also created the U.S. Marine Band.
In 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, New Jersey. (Hamilton died the next day.)
Crimson Tide Roll Call: July 11, 2021
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Sunday, 4th July 2021 at 6:00 am
The term Independence Day may conjure up images of Roland Emmerich’s iconic destruction of the White House in the 1996 film for many, but for those in the States, it also means a day of fireworks, fairs and family celebrations.
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However, both not only share a sense of spectacle, but an inextricable link to presidents, with Bill Pullman’s Thomas J Whitmore delivering one of the greatest speeches in movie history during the landmark disaster movie.
So as the 4th July holiday rolls around once again, we’re celebrating the very best movie presidents to ever grace the silver screen, as chosen by Radio Times film editor Andrew Collins.
When I was a kid, the top cop in New York City was Kojak. He was a bald detective who loved lollipops, his Greek heritage and solving crimes. Most of the time, Kojak was out roaming the city, tracking down suspects and closing cases. He did most of this by the gut. He didn’t spend episodes bogged down with the boys from the lab with their scientific evidence. He was cutting edge in the ’70s. That all changed in the 21st Century when the guys in the lab refused to be taken for suckers.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation became a massive hit in the Fall of 2000. The Las Vegas-based series nearly immediately triggered a spin-off when
Every ’90s Blockbuster Movie Ranked
Thirty years on, the 1990s has solidified its stature as one of the magical decades in filmmaking, much like how we view the ’30s and the ’70s. Precisely, this Gen X-decade pulled together the Hollywood studio power of the ’30s and the groundbreaking creativity of the ’70s, crocheting commercialism and art into the movie behemoths we speak of in legend as the ’90s blockbuster which we’ve now ranked all by Tomatometer!
First off, in putting together this list, we didn’t want no scrubs: We defined the ’90s blockbuster as any film that made over $100 million at the box office movies that had people literally lining up around the block to spend their easy-earned cash. (The economy was booming after all.) This, of course, ushers in all those films synonymous with ’90s blockbusterism, including
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