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1904 - 2nd class survivor Miss Winifred Vera Quick was born to Frederick Charles Quick (plasterer) and Jane Richards Quick in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK.

1883 - 3rd class survivor Mr Eugene Patrick Daly was born.

1972 - 3rd class survivor Mr Fridtjof Arne Madsen died of natural causes in Brooklyn, New York, USA at the age of 83.

1963 - 3rd class survivor Mrs Waika "Mary" Nakid died of pneumonia in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA at the age of 70.

1998 - James Cameron's movie "Titanic" was released into theaters in Peru, the UK, and Denmark.

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Behind the Scenes: Scene Facts: Carpathia

The scene was originally written to have Cal and Rose meet each other on the deck. Rose told Cal that he was to tell everyone she is dead, or she will expose him. Both Billy and Kate thought that this was a bad ending, so they got Jim to rewrite it so that Cal never sees Rose. Read that scene
Rose was originally written to walk off the Carpathia, and disappear into the crowds. Since the budget ran so high, this scene was cut due to the expense for having almost 1,000 extras and so forth brought to New York to film a 30 second clip. Read that scene
The "Carpathia" was actually the Titanic, but they rearranged the bow so it was not quite so apparent that it was the Titanic.
If there is ever a "director's cut" released, this scene may see the most revival, with shots of Ismay, and so forth on board the Carpathia. If you wish to see this "lost" footage, it made it onto the Titanic Explorer. Read these scenes
To see the Statue of Liberty from Rose's viewpoint, she would have had to be on land.
The Statue that Rose sees is not like the one she would have seen in 1912. It is the one you would see today, with the new torch. This was actually a miniature that was made...

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