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   Reaper G to All   
   10/10: Today in G-History   
   10 Oct 13 05:58:48   
   
   From: reaperg@aol.com   
      
   1879: FITCH FULTON, technical staffer on “Mighty Joe Young”, is born.   
      
   1926: RICHARD JAECKEL, who played Vince Elliot in “The Green Slime” and Perry   
   Lawton in “Latitude Zero”, is born in Long Beach, N.Y. He was also in   
   “Guadalcanal Diary”, “Sands of Iwo Jima”, “Town Without Pity”, “The Dirty   
   Dozen”, “Chisum”, “Sometimes a    
   Great Notion”, and “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid”, as well as the TV series   
   “Stories of the Century”, “Frontier Circus”, “Banyon”, “Firehouse”, “Salvage   
   1”, “At Ease”, “Spencer: For Hire”, “Supercarrier”, and “Baywatch”.   
      
   1956: MAKOTO KAKEDA, who played Kanrinin in “Ringu”, is born in Ishikawa,   
   Japan.   
      
   1959: C. DODGE DUNNING, dunning process photography supervisor on the original   
   “King Kong” and “The Son of Kong”, dies in Los Angeles.   
      
   1960: NAOMI HAGI, who played Maria Hagisa/Miss America 2 on “Battle Fever J”,   
   is born.   
      
   1966: Episode 15 of “The Space Giants”, “Terror from Outer Space”, debuts on   
   Japanese TV.   
      
   1972: Episode 2 of “Thunder Mask”, “The Boy Who Controlled a Devil-Beast”,   
   debuts on Japanese TV.   
      
   1973: Episode 15 of “Super Robot: Red Baron”, “The Premonition Trap”, debuts   
   on Japanese TV.   
      
   1978: SHADOW LIU, who played Mei-pheung in “One Missed Call 2”, is born in   
   Taipei, Taiwan.   
      
   1979: HITOMI SATO, who played Masami in “Ringu” and “Ringu 2”, is born in   
   Aishi, Japan.   
   	“The War in Space” is released in Portugal.   
      
   1980: Episode 54, the final episode of “Sky Rider”, “Farewell Hiroshi Tsukuba!   
   Eight Braves Be Forever…”, debuts on Japanese TV.   
      
   1981: Episode 35 of “Solar Squadron Sunvulcan”, “Friends!? La Cucaracha”,   
   debuts on Japanese TV.   
      
   1984: CHIAKI KURIYAMA, who played Sayori Hiura in “Shikoku”, Mizuho Tamura in   
   “Ju-on”, Mikoto in “Mail”, Agi in “The Great Yokai War”, Yuko Mizushima in   
   “Exte: Hair Extensions”, and Fumi Kusunoki in “Battle League Horumo”, is born   
   in Tsuchiura, Japan.    
   She is best known as Go-go Yubari in “Kill Bill, Vol. 1” and was also in   
   “Battle Royale”.   
      
   1987: Episode 33 of “Aura Squadron Maskman” debuts on Japanese TV.   
      
   1992: JAMES SEAY, who played Colonel Hallock in “The Amazing Colossal Man”,   
   dies in Capistrano Beach, Calif.   
      
   1994: “Urutora Sebun: Chikyuu seijin no daichi” (“Ultra Seven: Earth Aliens   
   Underground” a.k.a. “Solid Earth of Ours”, “Land of the Terrans”, and “World   
   of the Earth People”), premieres on Japanese TV.   
   	Episode 16 of Season 2 of “Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers”, “Beauty and the   
   Beast”, debuts on Fox.   
   	Episode 21 of “Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad”, “Rock n’ Roll Virucide”,   
   debuts on U.S. TV.   
      
   1998: Episode 105 of “Godzilla: The Series”, “The Winter of Our Discontent”,   
   debuts on Fox.   
   	Episode 6 of “Ultraman Gaia”, “The Sneering Eyes”, debuts on Japanese TV.   
   	Episode 21 of “Power Rangers in Space”, “Red witih Envy”, debuts on Fox.   
      
   2000: “Kwaidan” is released on DVD in the U.S. by Criterion.   
      
   2001: “Pulse” premieres in Spain at the Sitges Film Festival.   
      
   2002: “Ringu” and “Dark Water” premiere in Poland at the Warsaw Film Festival.   
   	“The Princess Blade” premieres in the U.S. at the Austin Film Festival.   
      
   2003: “Dark Water” is released in Denmark.   
      
   2004: Episode 34 of “Special Police Squadron Dekaranger” debuts on Japanese TV.   
      
   2006: “Mikadroid: Robokill Beneath Disco Club Layla” and “Ju-on: The Grudge 2”   
   are released in the U.S. on DVD.   
      
   2007: “Shinobi” is released in Greece on DVD.   
      
   2010: “Mutant Girls Squad”, “Alien vs. Ninja”, and “Zebraman 2: Attack on   
   Zebra City” premiere in Spain at the Sitges International Fantastic Film   
   Festival.   
   	Episode 34 of “Heavenly Armament Squadron Goseiger” debuts on Japanese TV.   
   	TETSUO OSAWA dies in Japan. He was the special effects art designer on “The   
   Last Dinosaur” and “Message from Space”; production designer on “8 Kamen   
   Riders vs. Galaxy King”, “Solar Squadron Sunvulcan: The Movie”, “Ultraman   
   Cosmos: First Contact”, and “   
   Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet”; special effects production designer on   
   “Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis”, “Gunhed”, “Godzilla vs. Biollante”, “Godzilla   
   vs. King Ghidorah”, “Godzilla vs. Mothra: Battle for the Earth”, “Godzilla vs.   
   Mechagodzilla 2”, “   
   Orochi the Eight-Headed Dragon”, “Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla”, “Godzilla vs.   
   Destroyah”, “Rebirth of Mothra”, “Rebirth of Mothra 2”, and “Rebirth of Mothra   
   3”; and art director on “Ultraman Tiga”, “Ultraman Mebius and Ultra Brothers”,   
   and “Mega Monster    
   Battle: Ultra Galaxy”.   
   	ODETTE YUSTMAN, who played Beth McIntyre in “Cloverfield”, marries Dave   
   Annable.   
      
   2012: “Higanjima: Escape from Vampire Island” is released in France on DVD and   
   Blu-ray.   
      
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