❇️ This month in history ➡️ Yellowstone National Park ~ King Kong ~ Baseball’s 9-innings
❇️ March Mini Bites of History ❇️
MOVIES 🎥
MARCH 1, 1933–
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you…KONG. The eight wonder of the world.”
Carl Denham
Superhero? Pop culture phenomenon? Monster? King Kong is a lot of things.
The first King Kong film was made in 1933. It was fantasy, adventure, and horror all in one.
Did you know? It was the first film to have a special music score composted for it.
The move was released into U.S. theaters on March 2, 1933. It was a huge success. In 1967 a remake of the original story is made. Aside from this, there have a series of King Kong films, video games, toys, and carnival attractions inspired by it.
Here is the list of King Kong films, starting with the first:
- 1933 King Kong
- 1933 Son of Kong
- 1962 King Kong vs. Godzilla
- 1967 King Kong Escapes
- 1976 King Kong (1st remake)
- 1986 King Kong Lives
- 2005 King Kong
- 2017 Kong: Skull Island
- 2021 Godzilla vs. Kong
- 2024 untitled Godzilla vs. Kong project is set to release.
Happy 90th Birthday, King Kong. 🎉
ENVIRONMENT 🚵♀️
MARCH 1, 1872 – The even more now famous Yellowstone Park is created. (Thanks to Taylor Sheridan‘s television hit Yellowstone.)
More than 2 million acres of wilderness and mountains are protected when President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park Act on March 1, 1872.
Here are a few interesting facts about the U.S’s first ever National Park.
- The park preserves more than 10,000 hydrothermal features! The collection includes mud pots, travertine terraces, geysers and hot springs.
- It is the only place in the U.S. where bison herds have lived continuously since prehistoric times.
- Yellowstone has the one of the world’s largest active volcanoes beneath it.
SPORTS ⚾️
MARCH 7, 1857 – Baseball’s nine innings is made the status quo.
The ball game would go on till one team scored 21 aces. Aces? This is the 19th century equivalent of a run. With this determining a ball game, games lasted an average of only 6 innings in the 1840’s.
As skill level with hitting and pitching increased, the 21 aces were harder to come by and games started to be called because of darkness.
To tackle this issue, a committee in 1856 was formed. The desire for more competitive defense had the resulting 9 innings made standard in 1857. Hello modern baseball!
History is very interesting; tells us where we have been, how the world was and often what mistakes have been made. Memory Monday is based on fun and fascinating bits of history that may not be the big events, but helped shape or bring us to where we are today. If you are interested in this type of history and writing short articles like I've been doing, please contact me at stacey@yourlocalbuzz.ca
