Video: 'Love and Death' trailer
(Tuesday, June 10, 1975, first showing scheduled for 12 noon EDT) — Love and Death, a satire film on Russian literature about a devout coward who vows to assassinate Napoleon in the name of love, opened today at the Sutton theater at 205 E. 57th Street in New York City. Continue reading Woody Allen’s ‘Love and Death’ opens in New York City 50 years ago this hour (June 10 1975)
Video: 'Claus von Bülow acquitted in second trial (June 10, 1985)'
(Monday, June 10, 1985, shortly before 11:30 a.m. EDT) — Socialite Claus von Bulow was acquitted by a jury today in Providence, Rhode Island, at his retrial on charges he’d tried to murder his heiress wife, Martha “Sunny” von Bulow.
Video: '10th June 1935: Alcoholics Anonymous was founded by Bill Wilson and Robert Smith'
(Monday, June 10, 1935; during the Great Depression) — Alcoholics Anonymous was founded today in Akron, Ohio, by Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith and William Griffith Wilson when Smith consumed his last drink (a beer to steady his hand for surgery).
Video: 'The First Barbary War (History Channel)'
(Monday, June 10, 1805; during the First Barbary War) — The First Barbary War, the first of two Barbary Wars between the United States and the four North African states known collectively as the Barbary States to battle pirates seizing American merchant ships and holding the crews for ransom, ended today when Yusuf Karamanli, the best-known Pasha of the Karamanli dynasty of Tripolitania (in present-day Libya) signed a treaty ending hostilities.
Video: 'Andrew Jackson - Good Evil & The Presidency - PBS Documentary'
(Tuesday, June 8, 1845, 6:00 p.m. local time) — Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States (1829-1837), died today at The Hermitage, his plantation in Nashville, Tennessee, of chronic tuberculosis, dropsy, and heart failure. He was 78. Continue reading Former U.S. President Andrew Jackson dies in Nashville 180 years ago this hour (June 8 1845)
(Tuesday, June 8, 1915, shortly after 3:00 p.m. EST; during World War I) — William Jennings Bryan, three times Democratic nominee for the presidency and author of nearly thirty peace treaties with the principal nations of the world, resigned today (effective June 9, 1915) as U.S. Secretary of State over what he viewed as President Woodrow Wilson’s overly bellicose attitude toward Germany following the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. Continue reading Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over President Wilson’s response to Lusitania sinking 110 years ago this hour (June 8 1915)
(Saturday, June 8, 1985) — “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” by Tears for Fears peaked at #1 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two consecutive weeks (June 8/15, 1985). Continue reading ‘Everybody Wants to Rule the World’ by Tears for Fears peaks at #1 in USA 40 years ago today (June 8 1985)
(Saturday, June 8, 1985) — “Fresh” by Kool & the Gang peaked at #9 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week. Continue reading ‘Fresh’ by Kool & the Gang peaks at #9 in USA 40 years ago today (June 8 1985)
Video: 'Situation Critical - S01E05 - Downed Pilot' (rescue at 42:30)
(Thursday, June 8, 1995, 6:44 a.m. CEST; during Operation Deny Flight, part of the NATO intervention in Bosnia) — United States marines staged an audacious rescue mission into the Bosnian war zone after dawn today, snatching up a missing American fighter pilot from his hiding place in the woods and helicoptering him to safety through a smattering of Bosnian Serb missile and machine-gun fire. Continue reading Downed U.S. pilot rescued in Bosnia in daring raid 30 years ago this hour (June 8 1995)
Video: '$64,000 Question - 1955 episode with Dr. Joyce Brothers'
(Tuesday, June 7, 1955, 10:00 p.m. EDT) — The television version of the quiz show The $64,000 Question premiered tonight on CBS, sponsored by cosmetics maker Revlon and originating live from CBS-TV Studio 52 in New York (later the disco-theater Studio 54). Continue reading ‘The $64,000 Question’ quiz show premieres on CBS-TV 70 years ago this hour (June 7 1955)
