Video: 'Casino Royale James Bond 1954'
(Thursday, October 21, 1954, 8:30-9:30 p.m. EST) — Casino Royale, a television adaptation of the novel of the same name by Ian Fleming and the first onscreen appearance of the character of James Bond (played by Barry Nelson), was broadcast tonight live on the CBS dramatic anthology series Climax!.
Nelson’s character is played as an American agent with “Combined Intelligence” and is referred to as “Jimmy” by several characters.
Video: 'Reagan - Mondale slug it out.'
(Sunday, October 21, 1984, 8:00-9:30 p.m.EDT) — Republican U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Democratic former Vice President Walter F. Mondale took the gloves off tonight in a battle over foreign policy, with Mondale calling the president’s handling of Central American policy an “embarrassment” and Reagan denying that he once said nuclear missiles could be recalled after launch in their second and final debate of the 1984 presidential campaign at the Municipal Auditorium Music Hall in Kansas City, Missouri (click here to watch the full debate).
Video: 'My Fair Lady' (trailer)
(Thursday, October 21, 1964) — My Fair Lady, a musical film about a phonetics instructor who bets that he can pass a street urchin off as a lady, premiered tonight at the Criterion Theater in New York City.
Directed by George Cukor, the film starred Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper and Jeremy Brett.
Video: 'Roosevelt In New York Aka Presidential Campaign (1944)'
(Saturday, October 21, 1944, during World War II) — As heavy rain and autumn winds pelted the five boroughs, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, approaching an election for an historic fourth term, toured through fifty-one miles of New York City streets today in a large motorcade.
With his wife Eleanor at his side, the aging president defied terrible weather to greet his fellow Americans from an open car (and sometimes without a hat).
Video: 'Battle For Aachen (1944)'
(Saturday, October 21, 1944, 12:06 p.m. local time; during the Battle of Aachen, part of World War II) — The last despairing opposition in the desert of death and strewn ruins that used to be the prosperous city of Aachen, Germany, broke down suddenly today as the German commander signed an unconditional surrender order and handed himself, his staff and about 1,000 surviving German soldiers. It was the first city on German soil to be captured by the Allies.
