American director and producer (died 1973)

Sam Katzman

Sam Katzman was an American film producer and director. Katzman's specialty was producing low-budget genre films, including serials, which had disproportionately high returns for the studios and his financial backers. In the 1930s, he produced numerous Western films for Victory Pictures and Puritan Pictures, and in the 1940s, he produced 22 East Side Kids features for Monogram Pictures. As well as producing the Jungle Jim series, in the 1950s, Katzman and his studio Clover Productions made science fiction, horror, and teen films for Columbia Pictures, including Creature with the Atom Brain (1955), Rock Around the Clock, Earth vs.

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1901

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1124 The city of Tyre falls to the Venetian Crusade after a siege of nineteen weeks.
1456 A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her execution.
1520 Spanish conquistadores defeat a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.
1534 Jacques Cartier makes his first contact with aboriginal peoples in what is now Canada.

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The world in 1901

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april 25 New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
august 10 The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
august 14 The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
august 21 Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.

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Asia O'Hara 1982– American drag performer Eiji Tsuburaya 1901–1970 Japanese director and producer (born 1901) Erik Zabel 1970– German cyclist and coach Erwin Bumke 1874–1945 Polish-German jurist and politician (born 1874) Ezzard Charles 1921–1975 American boxer (died 1975) Félicien Rops 1833– Belgian painter and illustrator (died 1898) Gian Carlo Menotti 1911–2007 Italian-American playwright and composer (born 1911) Gottfried von Cramm 1909– German tennis player (died 1976) Gustav Mahler 1860–1911 Austrian composer and conductor (died 1911)

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Walt Disney 1901–1966 American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (born 1901) Adolph Rupp 1901–1977 American basketball player and coach (born 1901) André Malraux 1901–1976 French theorist and author (born 1901) Andreas Embirikos 1901–1975 Greek poet and photographer (born 1901) Art Rooney 1901–1988 American businessman, founded the Pittsburgh Steelers (born 1901) Charles Brenton Huggins 1901–1997 Canadian-American physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1901) Claude Autant-Lara 1901–2000 French director, screenwriter, and politician (died 2000) Ed Begley 1901–1970 American actor (born 1901) Eiji Tsuburaya 1901–1970 Japanese director and producer (born 1901)

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