It's a great day for the movies. Oscar-winning actors Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, and Gregory Peck were all born on this day. And the events immortalized in Sergei Eisenstein's *&@%! awesome film Aleksandr Nevsky happened on this day too. Oh sure, it's a bit propagandistic, maybe a little heavy-handed in favor of the Russians, and certainly a bit cheesy by today's standards, but it's still a good flick. A great underdog/winning against the odds story.
And yes, it's based on a real battle. In 1242, Prince Aleksandr Nevsky actually forced an invading Teuton army onto the ice on Lake Peipus, where the weight of the army caused the ice to give way. FTW!
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