Daily Archives: March 18, 2015

‘Abyssinia, Henry’ episode airs on ‘M*A*S*H’ 40 years ago this hour (Mar 18 1975)


Video: 'MASH Season 3 E-24 Abyssinia Henry'

(Tuesday, March 18, 1975, 8:30 p.m. EST) — The 4077th MASH’s commanding officer, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blake (played by McLean Stevenson), finally gets his discharge on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom M*A*S*H. Continue reading ‘Abyssinia, Henry’ episode airs on ‘M*A*S*H’ 40 years ago this hour (Mar 18 1975)

The Beatles filming marching band scenes for ‘Help!’ in Austria 50 years ago today (Mar 18 1965)


Video: 'The Beatles - The Filming Of Help: Home Movies in Colour - GREAT CLIPS' (Mar. 17-20, 1965, at 21:09)

(Thursday, March 18, 1965) — The Beatles filmed scenes for Help! today at three locations in Obertauern, Austria, on this day: at an Olympic ski jump, on the ski slopes, and in an après-ski cellar.

Cosmonaut goes on first spacewalk 50 years ago this hour (Mar 18 1965)


Video: 'Rare COLOR footage of first spacewalk, Alexei Leonov, March 18, 1965'

(Friday, March 18, 1965, 08:34:51 UTC) — Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov left his orbiting spacecraft Voskhod 2 capsule for 12 minutes today (secured by a tether), making the first spacewalk in history.

NASA had been gearing up to be the first to perform such extra-vehicular activity (EVA), but the Soviets, as they had with the first satellite and first man in space, beat the US to it.