Video: 'Almanac: Radio City Music Hall'

(Tuesday, December 27, 1932, doors opened at 7:30 p.m. and the program began at 8:15 p.m. EST) — Radio City Music Hall, an entertainment venue and theater at 1260 Avenue of the Americas, within Rockefeller Center, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City, opened tonight with a lavish stage show featuring numbers including Ray Bolger, Doc Rockwell, Martha Graham, The Mirthquakers, and Patricia Bowman. Continue reading Radio City Music Hall opens in New York City 90 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 27 1932) →

Video: 'The March of the Bonus Army' (Bonus Marchers evicted at 15:57)

(Thursday, July 28, 1932, the U.S. Army attack began at 4:45 p.m. EDT, during the Great Depression) — President Herbert Hoover today ordered the U.S. Army, under General Douglas MacArthur, to forcibly evict the “Bonus Army,” tens of thousands of World War I veterans who, desperate for financial assistance, had come to Washington to lobby Congress to accelerate the year when they would be eligible for their cash bonuses. Continue reading Federal troops forcibly evict ‘Bonus Army’ veterans gathered in Washington to demand immediate payments of cash bonuses 90 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jul 28 1932) →

Video: Senate defeats 'Bonus' bill, June 17, 1932 (at 14:07)

(Friday, June 17, 1932, 8:20 p.m. EDT; during the Great Depression) — The U.S. Senate voted 62-18 tonight to reject the Wright Patman Bonus Bill, burying all hopes of several thousand war veterans massed at the Capitol for immediate payment of $2.4 billion on their bonus certificates. Continue reading U.S. Senate defeats ‘Bonus Bill’ despite 10,000 veterans massed around Capitol 90 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 17 1932) →

Video: 'Heroine Of The Skies (1932)'

(Saturday, May 21, 1932, 1:46 p.m. Irish Standard Time) — Amelia Earhart, 34, became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean today as she landed her single engine Lockheed Vega 5B in a pasture at Culmore, north of Derry, Northern Ireland, about 15 hours after leaving Harbour Grace, Newfoundland. Continue reading Amelia Earhart becomes first woman to fly solo across Atlantic Ocean 90 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 21 1932) →

Video: 'Where Baby Lindbergh Was Found (1932)'

(Thursday, May 12, 1932, 3:15 p.m. EDT; during the Lindbergh kidnapping) — The body of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles Lindbergh, the first person to complete a non-stop solo transatlantic flight — from New York to Paris — in 1927, was accidentally found, partly buried and badly decomposed, today near Mount Rose, New Jersey, in Mercer County. Continue reading Body of kidnapped Lindbergh baby discovered 90 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 12 1932) →

Video: 'Newsreel 'Nation aroused at revolting kidnapping of Lindbergh Baby, Hopewell N.J' HD Stock Footage'

(Tuesday, March 1, 1932, between 8:00-10:00 p.m. EST; during the Lindbergh kidnapping) — Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles A. Lindbergh, pilot of the world’s first non-stop transatlantic flight, was abducted tonight from the crib in the upper floor of the Lindberghs’ home, Highfields, in East Amwell, New Jersey, about 13 miles northwest of Princeton. Continue reading Lindbergh baby kidnapped from home of parents on farm near Princeton, New Jersey 90 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Mar 1 1932) →

Video: 'Japan on the offensive: The Japanese Invasion of Manchuria'

(Saturday, February 27, 1932) — The Japanese invasion of Manchuria, which began five months ago when the Kwantung Army of the Empire of Japan invaded Manchuria immediately following the Mukden Incident, ended today when Chinese General Chao Ting offered to cease hostilities. Continue reading General Ting Chao offers to cease hostilities, ending official Chinese resistance in Manchuria 90 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Feb 27 1932) →

Video: 'Mahatma Gandhi arrested - Bombay, January 4, 1932'

(Monday, January 4, 1932, 3:05 a.m. India Standard Time; during the Indian independence movement) — One week after his return to India following the failed Second Roundtable Conference in London, Mahatma Gandhi, the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement, was arrested early today for the second time within a year and a half, and Nationalist India once more girded itself for a non-violent war on Great Britain. Continue reading British arrest Indian nationalist Mahatma Gandhi, rush him off to jail 90 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 4 1932) →