(Sunday, October 28, 1984, 7:00 p.m. EST) — Comedian, actor Jackie Gleason held court with correspondent Morley Safer tonight on the CBS television magazine series 60 Minutes, explaining just how he became known as “The Great One” (click here to watch an extended video clip).
Video: 'OSKAR SCHINDLER FUNERAL ENTREVISTA LEGENDADO'
(Monday, October 28, 1974) — Oskar Schindler, who is credited with saving the lives of 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his enamelware and ammunitions factories, was buried today at the Catholic cemetery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, 19 days after dying in Frankfurt, West Germany, at age 66. Schindler was the only member of the Nazi Party to be honored in this way. Continue reading Holocaust rescuer Oskar Schindler buried in Israel 40 years ago today (Oct 28 1974)
Video: 'Anne Frank - The Whole Story -2' (late October/early November 1944, at 57:23)
(Wednesday, November 1, 1944; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — A second of three evacuation trains carrying Jewish women left the Auschwitz II–Birkenau concentration/extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland today for Bergen-Belsen in North Germany, with 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank and her older sister, Margot, probably among them; their parents, Otto and Edith, remain at Birkenau.
Video: 'World War I: Gavrilo Princip's Final Days'
(Wednesday, October 28, 1914; during World War I) — Yugoslav nationalist Gavrilo Princip, whose assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, sparked World War I, was sentenced today in Sarajevo to 20 years’ imprisonment, escaping the death penalty because he was underaged.
