On this day 15 years ago, audiences first enjoyed “Pirates of the Caribbean,” when the film premiered at Disneyland, the famous park with its amusement ride that inspired the story. The first in the film series, “The Curse of the Black Pearl” stars Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Geoffrey Rush, and Johnny Depp, who won his peers’ coveted SAG award for best actor in a leading role—and also was nominated for an Oscar and BAFTA. His character, the wily pirate Jack Sparrow teams up with blacksmith Will Turner to rescue a kidnapped noblewoman from the Captain’s old ship, the Black Pearl, but then discover an ancient curse. WATCH the trailer… (2003)
MORE Good News on this Day:
- The saxophone was patented by Adolphe Sax, who at the age of 16, was already an accomplished Belgian instrument maker dreaming of creating a group of instruments that would be the most powerful and vocal of the woodwinds, and the most adaptive of the brass instruments (1846)
- Labor Day officially became a holiday for federal employees in the United States, every year on the first Monday of September (1894)
- The Treaty of Versailles was signed, ending World War I for the allies — Belgium, Britain, France, Italy, the United States — against Germany and Austria-Hungary…
