Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Just after 6 p.m. the following day, King was standing on the second-floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel, where he and associates were staying, when a sniperâs bullet struck him in the neck.
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, French author (c. 1695-Paris, 1755). She is considered the original author of the story of Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la BÃªte) which is the oldest known variants of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast (http://www.endicott-studio.com/rdrm/f...).
Before the Disney cartoon, the most famous film version of 'Beauty and the Beast' was the 1946 live-action film by Jean Cocteau. From this classic French film, the Disney version would borrow the ideas of a rival suitor for Belle and household objects in the Beast's castle coming to life.