Video: 'The Beatles at Red Rocks in Morrison, CO on 26 Aug 1964'
(Wednesday, August 26, 1964, 9:30 p.m. MDT) — The Beatles performed tonight for 7,000 fans at Red Rocks Amphitheatre near Morrison, Colorado, 10 miles west of Denver, during the sixth stop of the band’s first full North American Tour. Continue reading The Beatles perform at Red Rocks Amphitheatre 50 years ago this hour (Aug 26 1964)
Video: 'Pres. Johnson Names Vice-President At Democratic Convention (1964)' (Aug. 26, 1964, at 0:00-2:48)
(Wednesday, August 26, 1964, evening EDT) — Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas, the man who took over the presidency last Nov. 22 in the shattering hour of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, was nominated by acclamation for a term of his own tonight by the 1964 Democratic National Convention meeting at the Convention Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Continue reading Democrats nominate Johnson-Humphrey ticket 130 years ago tonight (Aug 26 1964)
Video: 'The Beatles - "Hear The Beatles Tell All" (U.S. Mono LP - Vee-Jay) [Full Album]' (Aug. 26, 1964, at 14:54-15:56; 19:55-21:57; 24:57-25:21)
(Wednesday, August 26, 1964, afternoon MDT) — The Beatles were interviewed this afternoon by Dave Hull of KRLA-AM at Brown Palace Hotel in Denver, soon after their arrival from Los Angeles.
Video: 'Documentary World War 2 II in Colour The Second World War color' (de Gaulle in Paris at 1:51:45)
(Saturday, August 26, 1944; during the Liberation of Paris, part of Operation Overlord, World War II) — French Gen. Charles de Gaulle braved the threat of German snipers as he led a victory march in Paris, which had been liberated by the Allies from Nazi occupation the previous day. Continue reading de Gaulle leads victory march in liberated Paris 70 years ago today (Aug 26 1944)
Video: 'The Great War episode 2 Stalemate' (Aug. 26-30, 1914, at 27:10)
(Wednesday, August 26, 1914, morning local time; part of the Eastern Front of World War I) — The Battle of Tannenberg, an engagement between the Russian and the German Empires, began today near Allenstein, East Prussia (today Olsztyn, Poland), resulting in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army.
Video: 'The Beatles - "Hear The Beatles Tell All" (U.S. Mono LP - Vee-Jay) [Full Album]' (Aug. 26, 1964, at 0:00-12:52)
(Wednesday, August 26, 1964, ca. midnight PDT) — John Lennon of The Beatles was interviewed late tonight/early this morning by Jim Steck of KRLA-AM Los Angeles at Reginald Owen’s residence in Bel Air, California. This interview would later surface as the entire first side of the LP Hear the Beatles Tell All.
(Saturday, August 25, 1984) — “Leave a Tender Moment Alone” by Billy Joel at #27 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks.
(Tuesday, August 25, 1964) — Having been eliminated as President Lyndon Johnson’s running mate, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, brother of the recently assassinated president, John F. Kennedy, formally entered the race for the U.S. Senate today as a Democrat from New York. The Republican opposition immediately labeled Kennedy “the carpetbagger candidate.”
Video: 'Documentary World War 2 II in Colour The Second World War color' (Paris liberated at 1:50:59)
(Friday, August 25, 1944, 6:00 p.m. CEST; during the Liberation of Paris, part of Operation Overlord, World War II) — Paris was liberated tonight by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation as the final unconditional surrender was signed in a bare, dingy baggage master’s office in Montparnasse railroad station. Continue reading Paris liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation 70 years ago this hour (Aug 25 1944)
Video: 'The Forgotten War of 1812.' (Aug. 24, 1814, at 1:15:36)
(Wednesday, August 24, 1814, 10:30 p.m. local time; during the Burning of Washington, part the War of 1812) — British troops entered Washington, D.C. today and burned the White House in retaliation for the American attack on the city of York in Ontario, Canada, in June 1812. President James Madison and First Lady Dolley Madison had already fled to safety in Maryland.
