Daily Archives: April 23, 2015

President Ford: Vietnam War is over for America 40 years ago this hour (Apr 23 1975)

1970s, Cold War, U.S. Presidents, Vietnam War


Video: 'President Gerald Ford - Remarks at Tulane University'

(Wednesday, April 23, 1975, 8:07 p.m. CST; during the 1975 Spring Offensive of the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — Speaking to an audience of students at Tulane University in New Orleans, U.S. President Gerald Ford announced that “Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. But it cannot be achieved by re-fighting a war that is finished as far as America is concerned.” Continue reading President Ford: Vietnam War is over for America 40 years ago this hour (Apr 23 1975) →

President Truman confronts Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov on Poland 70 years ago this hour (Apr 23 1945)

1940s, U.S. Presidents, World War II


Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 24-The Bomb(February–September 1945)' (Apr. 23, 1945, at 6:47)

(Monday, April 23, 1945, 5:30 EWT; during World War II) — U.S. President Harry Truman met today at the White House with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and demanded that Russia bide by the Yalta agreement to hold free elections in Poland (click here for a clip of this day on “American Experience: Truman” at 1:38:15).

Video-sharing website YouTube uploads first clip 10 years ago today (Apr 23 2005)

2000s


Video: 'Me at the zoo'

(Saturday, April 23, 2005) — The recently created video-sharing website YouTube uploaded its first clip today. Titled “Me at the Zoo,” the video consisted of 18 seconds of YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim standing in front of an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo, commenting on the animals’ “really, really, really long, uh, trunks.”

Today, YouTube claims more than 1 billion users and says that 300 hours of video are uploaded every minute.

100,000 North Vietnamese troops advance on Saigon 40 years ago today (Apr 23 1975)

1970s, Cold War, Vietnam War


Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 11' (Apr. 23, 1975, at 23:30)

(Wednesday, April 23, 1975; during the 1975 Spring Offensive of the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — 100,000 North Vietnamese communist forces, less than 30 miles from Saigon, begin an advance from five directions with orders to penetrate and occupy the South Vietnamese capitol within a week.

‘I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)’ by Four Tops released 50 years ago today (Apr 23 1965)

1960s, Popular Music 1960s


Video: 'Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) (1965) HD 0815007'

(Friday, April 23, 1965) — The Four Tops’ single “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)” was released by Motown. Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song #415 on their list of the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time.”

Göring attempts to take over Reich leadership 70 years ago today (Apr 23 1945)

1940s, World War II


Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 21-Nemesis:Germany(February-May 1945)' (Apr. 23, 1945, at 33:05)

(Monday, April 23, 1945, afternoon CEST; during the Battle of Berlin on the Eastern Front during World War II) — German Field Marshal and head of the Luftwaffe Hermann Göring sent a telegram to Adolf Hitler today asking for permission to take over the leadership of the Reich in accordance with Hitler’s 1941 decree naming Göring his successor.

Fearing that Göring was threatening a coup, Hitler informed Göring that he would be executed unless he resigned all of his posts. Later that day, Hitler sacked Göring from all of his offices and ordered his arrest.

Nazi concentration camp Flossenbürg liberated 70 years ago today (Apr 23 1945)

1940s, The Holocaust, World War II


Video: 'Liberation of Flossenburg Concentration Camp'

(Monday, April 23, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The remaining 3,000 inmates, including 1,400 women, at the Nazi concentration camp Flossenbürg in the Upper Palatinate region of Bavaria, Germany, near the border with Czechoslovakia, were liberated today by the U.S. Army.

More than 96,000 prisoners passed through the camp since it opened in May 1938. About 30,000 died there.