Video: MacArthur 'I shall return' speech re-enacted (at 4:00)
(Friday, March 20, 1942, during World War II) — General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, made his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: “I came out of Bataan and I shall return.”
Video: Gray condolence letter (at 27:47)
(Thursday, March 20, 1862, during the American Civil War) — An official condolence letter was written today to the brother of Corporal Charles Gray, who was killed at the Battle of New Bern on Mar. 14, 1862. He was the first man from Deer Isle, Maine, to join the army and the first from the island to die in the war.
Video: 'Lunch Stories' (part 1)
(Wednesday, March 11, 1992, 8:30 p.m. ET) — It’s lunchtime at McKinley High and the cafeteria is full of life on tonight’s episode of the TV comedy-drama series The Wonder Years. Continue reading ‘Lunch Stories’ episode airs on ‘The Wonder Years’ 20 years ago this hour (1992)
(Saturday, March 18, 1972, 8:00 p.m. ET) — John is convinced that weird things will happen on their shift on tonight’s episode of the NBC-TV series Emergency!.
Video: Gandhi at a public meeting in 1922
(Saturday, March 18, 1922) — Mohandas K. Gandhi, India’s 52-year-old non-co-operationist leader, was sentenced to six years in prison today in Armedabad for publishing seditious materials.
Video: MacArthur in Australia (at 10:39)
(Tuesday, March 17, 1942, during World War II) — General Douglas MacArthur today became Supreme Commander of the United Nations forces in the Southwestern Pacific.
This dramatic shift of command and promotion for the dashing officer who has held the Japanese at bay on the Island of Luzon for three months and ten days was announced by the War Department simultaneously with his arrival in Australia.
Video: Camp Fire Girls commercial
(Sunday, March 17, 1912) — Camp Fire Girls of America, emphasizing camping and other outdoor activities for youth, was incorporated today in Washington, D.C, as a national agency.
Video: 'Little Girl Lost' extended clip
(Friday, March 16, 1962, 10 p.m. ET) — A six-year-old girl rolls under her bed and vanishes into a fourth dimension on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV anthology series The Twilight Zone.
Video: 'Victor Victoria' trailer
(Tuesday, March 16, 1982) — Victor Victoria, a musical comedy film that involves transvestism and sexual identity as central themes, premiered today in the U.S.
Directed by Blake Edwards, the film starred Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston and Lesley Ann Warren.
Video: Pat Nixon tribute (1972)
(Saturday, March 16, 1912) — Thelma Catherine “Pat” Ryan Nixon, who served as First Lady of the United States from 1969 to 1974, was born today in the small mining town of Ely, Nevada.
