On This Day
2006 – The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
The Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) refers to a United States Army medical unit serving as a fully functional hospital in a combat area of operations. The units were first established in August 1945, and were deployed during the Korean War and later conflicts. The term was made famous in the television series M*A*S*H, which depicted a fictional MASH unit. The U.S. Army deactivated the last MASH unit on February 16, 2006. The successor to the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital is the Combat Support Hospital.
Born On This Day
1878 – Pamela Colman Smith, English occultist and illustrator (d. 1951)
Pamela Colman Smith (16 February 1878 – 18 September 1951), also nicknamed Pixie, was a British artist, illustrator, writer and occultist. She is best known for illustrating the Rider-Waite tarot deck of divinatory tarot cards (also called the Rider-Waite-Smith deck, Waite-Smith deck, Waite-Colman Smith deck or simply the Rider deck or Waite deck) for Arthur Edward Waite.
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Bruno Ganz (German: [ˈbruːno ˈɡant͡s] (About this soundlisten); 22 March 1941 – 15 February 2019) was a Swiss actor who appeared in German language film and television for more than fifty years.[1] He collaborated several times with filmmakers Werner Herzog, Éric Rohmer, Francis Ford Coppola and Wim Wenders, with the latter first as Jonathan Zimmerman in The American Friend (1977) and again as Damiel the Angel in both Wings of Desire (1987) and Faraway, So Close! (1993).[2]
Ganz was internationally noted for portraying Adolf Hitler in the Academy Award-nominated film Downfall (2004). He also had roles in several English language films, including The Boys from Brazil (1978), Strapless (1989), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), The Reader (2008), Unknown (2011) and Remember (2015). On stage, Ganz portrayed Dr. Heinrich Faust in Peter Stein’s staging of Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two in 2000.[3]
From 1996 until his death in 2019, Ganz held the Republic of Austria’s Iffland-Ring, which passes from actor to actor — each bequeathing the ring to the next holder, judging that actor to be the “most significant and most worthy actor of the German-speaking theatre”.[4][5]
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