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Artsy Architecture
October 21, 1959 - The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum first opened to the public. The museum was designed by renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright and is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the permanent home to a collection of Impressionist, early  Modern, and contemporary art and also features special exhibitionsthroughout the year. It is widely considered to be one of the 20th century's most important architectural landmarks. The museum was featured in the 2009 film The International, where a major shootout occurs in the museum.
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Settling a Score
October 26, 1881- The most famous gunfight of the Old West, the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, took place in Tombstone, Arizona. The fight pitted legendary lawman Wyatt Earp, his brothers Virgil and Morgan, and close friend Doc Holliday against a group of local cowboys and ruffians - the Clantons and the McLaurys. Relations between the Earps and the Clantons had been confrontational from the moment the Earps moved to Tombstone and took jobs as  peace officers. The gunfight, which left three men dead, has come to symbolize the struggle between legal authority and banditry in frontier towns of the Old West, where law enforcement was often weak or nonexistent. The fight has been portrayed multiple times Western Films, including the motion pictures Tombstone starring Kurt Russell and Wyatt Earp starring Kevin Costner.
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Get Out Or Else
October 27, 1838 - Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issued Executive Order 44, known as the "extermination order," requiring that all Mormons be driven from the State of Missouri or be exterminated. The order, which was a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution, was the result of tense relations between Missourians and the Mormons, who had migrated from Ohio. The Mormons had been continually harassed by local mobs who considered the religious group peculiar and a political threat. Most of the Mormon settlers left the state peacefully beginning in 1839, relocating to Nauvoo, Illinois before eventually migrating west to settle Salt Lake City, Utah. The extermination order was not formally rescinded by the State of Missouri until 1976. The order was essentially a license for the militia to kill any member of the Mormon faith who refused to leave the state. At no other time in American history has such an order been issued against any group. The plight of the Mormons is told in the 2004-2006 movie trilogy The Work and the Glory.
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Finally
October 27, 2004 - The Boston Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 3-0 in Game 4 to win the World Series and end an 86 year championship drought. The Red Sox completed th eir 4-game sweep of the Cardinals after winning what was arguably the greatest American League Championship Series ever against the New York Yankees. In the ALCS the Red Sox became the first major league baseball team to overcome a 3-games-to-0 playoff deficit. The Red Sox 2004 season and World Series championship plays a critical role in the 2005 film Fever Pitch.
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"Red Sox fans have longed to hear it: The Boston Red Sox are World Champions!"
- Joe Buck
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Heath's Top 10
Favorite Films
(in no particular order)
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