(Saturday, September 16, 1972, 8:00 p.m. EDT) — Archie gets fed up with a television editorial when this week’s issue concerns gun control on tonight’s season three premiere episode of the CBS-TV sitcom All In The Family.
Daily Archives: September 16, 2012
Germans attack Russian grain elevator near Stalingrad 70 years ago today (1942)
Video: Sept. 16, 1942 (at 5:59)
(Wednesday, September 16, 1942, during the Battle of Stalingrad, part of the Eastern Front of World War II) — Wilhelm Hoffman, a soldier in the 267th Infantry Regiment, 94th Infantry Division of the German 6th Army who chronicled the Battle of Stalingrad in his journal, wrote today:
Our battalion, plus tanks, is attacking the [grain] elevator, from which smoke is pouring – the grain in it is burning, the Russians seem to have set it light themselves. Barbarism . . . The elevator is occupied not by men, but by devils that no flames or bullets can destroy . . .
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Union captain describes conditions on the eve of the Battle of Antietam 150 years ago today (1862)
Video: Sept. 16, 1862 (at 43:40)
(Tuesday, September 16, 1862, during the American Civil War) — On the eve of the Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, Union Capt. Edward Hastings Ripley wrote about conditions near Sharpsburg, Maryland.
