Video: 'Max Schmeling vs Jack Sharkey II' (silent)
(Tuesday, June 21, 1932) — Heavyweight boxer Max Schmeling lost a title fight rematch tonight in New York by decision to Jack Sharkey, prompting Schmeling’s manager, Joe Jacobs, to exclaim: “We was robbed!”
Audio: 'Take It Away'
(Monday, June 21, 1982) — Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney today released the single Take It Away/I’ll Give You A Ring in both the U.S. and Britain, the second single from his album Tug of War. Continue reading ‘Take It Away’/’I’ll Give You A Ring’ by Paul McCartney released 30 years ago today (1982)
Video: June 21, 1972 (at 0:38)
(Wednesday, June 21, 1972) — G. Gordon Liddy told White House aides Frederick LaRue and Robert Mardian that he and his fellow Watergate burglars will need money for bail, legal expenses, and family support.
Video: June 21, 1972 (at 7:53)
(Wednesday, June 21, 1972) — U.S. President Richard Nixon, by now deeply involved in the Watergate cover-up, today proposed to White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman to use the CIA background of E. Howard Hunt (one of two engineers of the Watergate burglary) to confuse the FBI, among other things.
Video: June 21, 1972 (continued)
Video: Beaverbrook speaks June 21, 1942 (at 7:01)
(Sunday, June 21, 1942) — A militant call for the immediate opening of a second front, coupled with the claim that the army is now adequately equipped to carry out a continental invasion, was voiced in Birmingham, England, today by Britain’s Lord Beaverbrook.
