Video: '1984 Presidential Candidate Debate: President Reagan and Walter Mondale - 10/7/84'
(Sunday, October 7, 1984, 9:00-10:30 p.m. EDT) — Republican U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Democratic former Vice President Walter F. Mondale engaged in blunt, sometimes highly personal exchanges as they clashed on economic and social issues tonight in their first debate of the 1984 presidential campaign at the Center for the Performing Arts in Louisville, Kentucky.
Video: 'Marian Anderson canta Un ballo in Maschera'
(Thursday, October 7, 1954) — Marian Anderson today became the first black singer hired by the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York. Anderson made her Met debut in January 1955 playing the role of Ulrica in Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera.”
(Saturday, October 7, 1944) — “You Always Hurt the One You Love” by The Mills Brothers was the #1 song on today’s Billboard Best Selling Retail Records chart for five non-consecutive weeks (Oct. 7/21/28, Nov. 25, Dec. 2, 1944).
(Wednesday, October 7, 1914) — Joseph Patrick “Joe” Kennedy, the 26-year-old elder son of businessman/politician P. J. Kennedy, today married Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald, the 24-year-old eldest daughter of Boston Mayor John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald (political rival of P. J.), in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston after a courtship of more than seven years.
(Wednesday, October 7, 1974, around 2:00 a.m. EDT) — Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, was pulled over by police this morning with his glasses broken and his face bleeding from a scuffle with his mistress Argentine stripper Annabelle Battistella, better known as Fanne Foxe. Continue reading House Ways and Means chair injured in scuffle with mistress 40 years ago this hour (Oct 7 1974)
