Meatballs (film) Meatballs is a 1979 Canadian comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman. It is noted for Bill Murray's first film appearance in a starring role and for launching the directing career of Reitman whose later comedies included Stripes (1981) and Ghostbusters (1984), both starring Murray.
Harriet Beecher Stowe: 10 memorable quotes on her birthday. June 13, 2012. American abolitionist writer Harriett Beecher Stowe was born on June 14, 1811 to Lyman Beecher, a Congregationalist minister.
This year marks both the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the Civil War and the 200th anniversary of the birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, which created such a stir when it was published in 1852 that Abraham Lincoln reportedly called Stowe the little lady who made this great war..