(Thursday, February 26, 1942) — How Green Was My Valley, the story of Welsh coalminers in changing times, was named Best Picture of 1941 (beating out Citizen Kane) tonight at the 14th Academy Awards at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. The film’s director, John Ford, also won for Best Director.
Gary Cooper (Sergeant York) won Best Actor while Joan Fontaine (Suspicion) won Best Actress.
Video: Album Of The Year awarded
(Tuesday, February 25, 1992) — Natalie Cole’s sentimental, high-tech tribute to her late father dominated at tonight’s Grammy Awards, getting the honors for record, song and album of the year and accumulating seven prizes in all at the 34th Grammy Awards at Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. Bonnie Raitt and R.E.M. each won three. Continue reading Grammy voters find Cole ‘Unforgettable’ 20 years ago tonight (1992)
(Thursday, February 25, 1982, 10:00 p.m. ET) –Goldblume finds a witness in the Gilliam case who seems too good to be true on tonight’s episode of the NBC-TV police drama Hill Street Blues.
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)
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.
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.”
(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.
Video: 'The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank' promo clip
(Friday, February 23, 1962, 10 p.m. ET) — A man (James Best) returns from the dead during his funeral on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV anthology series The Twilight Zone. Continue reading ‘The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank’ episode airs on ‘The Twilight Zone’ 50 years ago this hour (1962)
(Friday, February 23, 1962) — U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy laid a wreath “to the victims of Communist tyranny” at the Red Wall dividing Berlin today and received some cautious waves from East Berliners beyond the barricade.
(Thursday, February 22, 1962) — U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy flew to West Berlin today and pledged a new American determination to stand by the isolated city. Huge and emotional crowds greeted Kennedy today as he began a two-day visit. Continue reading Berlin salutes Robert Kennedy 50 years ago today (1962)
