On this day: Titanic sets sail, Newsies debuts, 3-D Begins...
On this day in history as it relates to showbiz...
1868 George Arliss, who won the Oscar for Disraeli (1929) born
1912 RMS Titanic set sail on this day from England on her first and last voyage. The rest is the subject of history, lore, and several plays and movies, most famously James Cameron's Oscar devouring Titanic (1997)
1925 The Great Gatsby is published. The classic novel failed at first but after F Scott Fitzgerald's death it became an indisputable classic, lateradapted to plays and movies and so on...