Charlie's Angels was released on November 15, 2019, by Columbia Pictures. Prior to this, Sony Pictures Releasing announced that the film would also be released in IMAX format in select theaters. The film was originally set for November 1 date, but was pushed back to avoid competition with Terminator: Dark Fate.
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Charlie's Angels grossed $17.8 million in the United States and Canada, and $55.5 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $73.3 million.
This Day In History: It was on this date in 1872 when Susan B. Anthony was arrested inside her home in Rochester (above) for illegally voting in the presidential election 13 days prior. Anthony and several other women voted not far from the home at a polling place located inside a general store in the 8th Ward. A commemorative plaque and steel ballot box is located at that site (below). At her trial, Ms. Anthony was found guilty of voting illegally “without having a lawful right to vote” because she was “then and there a person of the female sex”. At her trial, Anthony was fined $100 to which she replied to the judge “I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty” (which she did not). Nearly 50 years later, the 19th Amendment was passed giving women the right to vote.
On 18 November 1944, William J. Donovan, head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), sends a memorandum to President Roosevelt proposing the creation of a 'central intelligence service' in the post-war period under the President's direct control.
'Will Bill' Donovan has been running the OSS under the supervision of the Joint Chiefs of Staff since the agency was created on 13 June 1942. The OSS's work ranges from the most secretive and dangerous operations to the downright outrageous, as was described by Astrid in Episode 8 of our Spies & Ties series, which you can check out on YouTube by following the link in our bio.
Today, Donovan proposes the creation of a new intelligence agency in a secret memorandum to Roosevelt:
˝Pursuant to your note of 31 October 1944, I have given consideration to the organization of an intelligence service for the post-war period.
In the early days of the war, when the demands upon intelligence services were mainly in and for military operations, the OSS was placed under the direction of the JCS.
Once our enemies are defeated the demand will be equally pressing for information that will aid us in solving the problems of peace.
This will require two things:
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That intelligence control be returned to the supervision of the President.
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The establishment of a central authority reporting directly to you, with responsibility to frame intelligence objectives and to collect and coordinate the intelligence material required by the Executive Branch in planning and carrying out national policy and strategy.
I attach in the form of a draft directive the means by which I think this could be realized without difficulty or loss of time. You will note that coordination and centralization are placed at the policy level but operational intelligence (that pertaining primarily to Department action) remains within the existing agencies concerned…
Though in the midst of war, we are also in a period of transition which, before we are aware, will take us into the tumult of rehabilitation. An adequate and orderly intelligence system will contribute to informed decisions.˝
Picture: Major General William J. Donovan
Source: U.S. National Archives