Daily Archives: April 30, 2015

‘Queen for a Day’ debuts on Mutual Radio Network 70 years ago this hour (Apr 30 1945)


Video: 'Queen For a Day Radio Show Jan 23 1951'

(Monday, April 30, 1945, 2:30 p.m. EWT; during World War II)Queen for Today (later Queen for a Day), a radio game show that helped to usher in American listeners’ and viewers’ fascination with big-prize giveaway shows, premiered today on the Mutual Radio Network in New York City.

The Beatles film studio, jeweler and elevator scenes for ‘Help!’ film 50 years ago today (Apr 30 1965)


Video: 'Help 1965' (Apr. 30, 1965, at 10:43-11:09; 12:55-16:10; 22:52-24:04)

(Friday, April 30, 1965) — The Beatles continued production on their second feature film Help! today, spending most of the day filming the scene in which they record “You’re Going To lose That Girl” at Twickenham Studios in London.

They also filmed the scenes in which an Asprey’s jeweler, played by Peter Copley, examines the ring stuck on Ringo Starr’s finger and another in which a magnetized elevator attracts all metal objects to the walls apart from the ring.

Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun commit suicide 70 years ago this hour (Apr 30 1945)


Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 21-Nemesis:Germany(February-May 1945)' (Apr. 30, 1945, at 46:10)

(Monday, April 30, 1945, 3:30 p.m. CEST; during the Battle of Berlin on the Eastern Front during World War II) — As Soviet troops approached his Berlin bunker, Adolf Hitler committed suicide today along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun.

Hitler, 56, shot himself and Braun, 33, took cyanide.

In accordance with Hitler’s instructions, the bodies were burned in the garden behind the Reich Chancellery.