Video: 'The Beach Boys -- Shindig! -- 1965/04/21 -- Full Live Appearance -- [ remastered, 60FPS 4K ]'
(Wednesday, April 21, 1965, 8:30-9:30 p.m. EST) — The Beach Boys made their second appearance on ABC’s Shindig! program tonight, performing six songs (taped Mar. 29, 1965 in Los Angeles), including “Do You Wanna Dance,” “Fun Fun Fun,” “Long Tall Texan,” “Please Let Me Wonder,” “Help Me Rhonda” and “Their Hearts Were Full of Spring.”
(Thursday, April 21, 1955, 8:00 p.m. EST) — The Jerome Lawrence-Robert Lee play Inherit the Wind, a story that fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes “Monkey” Trial as a means to discuss the then-contemporary McCarthy trials, opened tonight on Broadway at the National Theatre in New York.
Video: 'George Harrison - "Extra Texture (Read All About It)" [Full Album]'
(Monday, April 21, 1975) — Former Beatle George Harrison began recording the basic tracks for the new songs for his sixth solo studio album Extra Texture (Read All About It) today at A&M Studios in Los Angeles, beginning with “Tired of Midnight Blue” and “The Answer’s at the End.” Recording of the basic tracks continued through May 7, 1975, with overdubs laid down between May 31-June 9, 1975.
Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 11' (Apr. 21, 1975, at 40:32)
(Monday, April 21, 1975; during the 1975 Spring Offensive of the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — With Communist forces closing in, South Vietnam’s President Nguyen Van Thieu denouncing the United States as untrustworthy, resigned tonight after 10 years in office. Continue reading South Vietnamese President Thieu resigns as Communist forces close in on Saigon 40 years ago today (Apr 21 1975)
Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 11' (Apr. 21, 1975, at 39:59)
(Monday, April 21, 1975; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — The Battle of Xuan Loc, the last major battle of the Vietnam War in which South Vietnamese army committed almost all their remaining mobile forces under General Le Minh Dao to the defense of Xuan Loc, ended today with a North Vietnamese strategic victory.
Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 21-Nemesis:Germany(February-May 1945)' (Apr. 21, 1945, at 28:15)
(Saturday, April 21, 1945; during the Battle of Berlin on the Eastern Front during World War II) — German dictator Adolf Hitler today ordered the units commanded by Waffen-SS General Felix Steiner to attack the northern flank of the encircling Soviet salient and ordered the German Ninth Army, south-east of Berlin, to attack northward in a pincer attack.
By that evening, Red Army tanks reached the outskirts of Berlin.
Video: 'Ken Burns The Civil War: Episode 9 The Better Angels of Our Nature (1865) |Ken Burns Docum' (Lincoln departs at 21:16)
(Friday, April 21, 1865, 8:00 a.m.; during the American Civil War) — The remains U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and his deceased son, William Wallace Lincoln, left Washington, D.C., today for the 1,654 mile journey to Springfield, Illinois, for burial. Continue reading Lincoln’s body departs Washington 150 years ago this hour (Apr 21 1865)
