httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw1KVR6bnaI
(Sunday, April 30, 1961) — Drake travels to China to investigate the disappearance of an eminent doctor who had been trying to escape the Communist regime on tonight’s episode of Danger Man.
Monthly Archives: April 2011
‘Wide World of Sports’ debuts
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2AZH4FeGsc
Wide World of Sports Intro 1978
(Saturday, April 29, 1961) — ABC’S Wide World of Sports, a sports anthology TV series hosted by Jim McKay, debuted today on ABC-TV.
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Starr’s second ‘It Don’t Come Easy’ video debuts
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZrnPA7bO3w
(Thursday, April 29, 1971, 7:05 p.m.) — The second video for Ringo Starr’s It Don’t Come Easy single, shot in Norway, premiered tonight in the UK on BBC1’s Top of the Pops
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Tonight on TV: ‘The Simpsons’
(Sunday, April 29, 2001, 8 p.m. ET) — Homer’s thumb is cut off following breakfast and the episode follows three different paths on tonight’s episode of the TV series The Simpsons.
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Tonight on TV: ‘The Twilight Zone’
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5raNKgphsJM
“The Silence” (part one)
(Friday, April 28, 1961, 10 p.m. ET) — A man (Liam Sullivan) makes a bet that he can go without speaking for a year on tonight’s episode of The Twilight Zone. Continue reading Tonight on TV: ‘The Twilight Zone’
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Reagan returns, gets huge ovation
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T-7BnFo5ao
(Tuesday, April 28, 1981) — U.S. President Ronald Reagan made a tumultuous return to the public stage tonight, his first public appearance since a March 30 assassination attempt, saying in a speech before a joint session of Congress that his health was much improved but “our economic mess is not.”
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Lincoln suspends Writ of Habeas Corpus
"The Civil War - Episode One: The Cause (1861)" (habeas corpus suspended @ 1:08:16)
(Saturday, April 27, 1861) — The writ of habeas corpus, a legal action or writ by means of which detainees can seek relief from unlawful imprisonment, was suspended by President Abraham Lincoln today in Maryland and parts of midwestern states, including southern Indiana, during the American Civil War.
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President promises to be ‘candid’
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZYfeYhQ9eU
JFK speech on secret societies + transcript/subtitles
(Thursday, April 27, 1961) — President Kennedy told American newspaper publishers in New York tonight that his administration intends to be candid about his errors following the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. As a wise man once said, Kennedy recalled, “an error doesn’t become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.” “We intend,” he assured, “to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.”
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Tonight on TV: ‘Green Acres’ finale
(Tuesday, April 27, 1971, 8 p.m. ET) — Oliver contacts Carol, his one-time secretary, to find out where she’d had his watch repaired years earlier on the final episode of Green Acres. the American sitcom TV series starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City to a country farm. It aired for six seasons on CBS-TV.
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Starr films appearance on ‘Cilla’
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ISWjVrBysI
(Tuesday, April 27, 1971) — Former Beatle Ringo Starr films an appearance for the TV show “Cilla” in Norway, which would air on Saturday, November 27, 1971.
