Daily Archives: February 24, 2012

Lennon, Carnes take top Grammy awards 30 years ago tonight (1982)

1980s, Popular Music 1980s, The Beatles 1980s


Video: Album Of The Year awarded

(Wednesday, February 24, 1982, 9:00 p.m. EST) — Double Fantasy, the album by the late John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono, and Bette Davis Eyes, Kim Carnes’ scratchy voiced single, won top honors tonight at the 24th Grammy Awards at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

The biggest winner was Quincy Jones, who took home five awards for his own album The Dude and the album of Lena Horne’s one-woman Broadway show. Continue reading Lennon, Carnes take top Grammy awards 30 years ago tonight (1982) →

‘Circumstantial Evidence’ episodes airs on ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’ 30 years ago this hour (1982)

1980s, Television 1980s


Video: 'Circumstantial Evidence' (part 2)

(Wednesday, February 24, 1982, 8:00 p.m. ET) –Venus’s latest date gives him an expensive diamond earring as a gift and then runs out on him on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati.

Nixon calls for ‘open world’ as he visits China’s Great Wall 40 years ago today (1972)

1970s, U.S. Presidents


Video: Nixon visits Great Wall of China (at 1:47)

(Thursday, February 24, 1972) — U.S. President Richard M. Nixon visited the Great Wall of China today and called for an end to “walls of any kind between peoples.”

Former President Theodore Roosevelt announces he’ll run again 100 years ago tonight (1912)

1910s, U.S. Presidents

(Saturday, February 24, 1912) — Former President Theodore Roosevelt announced tonight (in the form of a written reply to seven GOP governors asking him to run) that he would “accept the nomination for president if it is tendered me,” directly challenging his successor, President William H. Taft, for the Republican presidential nomination.