Video: '"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Original Broadway cast - Opening scene part 2' (at 7:54)
(Saturday, October 13, 1962) — Edward Albee’s searing four-character drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opened at the Billy Rose Theater on Broadway with Arthur Hill as George, Uta Hagen as Martha, George Grizzard as Nick and Melinda Dillon as Honey.
Video: 'Paul McCartney - Secret Website gig 2002'
(Saturday, October 12, 2002) — Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney performed today at New Orleans Arena in New Orleans during the second leg of his Driving World Tour, recording The Secret Website Show for public viewing in December.
Video: 'The Beatles meet Little Richard'
(Friday, October 12, 1962) — Little Richard played a gig tonight at The Tower Ballroom in New Brighton, Wallasey, England, with a then-unknown local band called The Beatles opening for him.
Video: 'An Ensign for McHale' (Oct. 11, 1962)
(Thursday, October 11, 1962, 9:30 p.m. EDT) — McHale’s Navy, a television situation comedy about the misadventures of a misfit PT Boat crew during World War II, debuted tonight on ABC. It starred Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway, Joe Flynn, Gary Vinson and Carl Ballantine.
Video: 'Love Me Do'
(Monday, October 11, 1982) — 20 Greatest Hits, a compilation album featuring a selection of songs by The Beatles, released to mark the 20th anniversary of The Beatles’ first record release Love Me Do in the UK in 1962, was released today in the U.S. and UK.
Video: Oct. 10, 1972 (at 12:31)
(Tuesday, October 10, 1972, during the Watergate scandal) — FBI agents have established that the Watergate bugging incident stemmed from a massive campaign of political spying and sabotage conducted on behalf of President Nixon’s re-election and directed by officials of the White House and the Committee for the Re-election of the President, the Washington Post reported today. Continue reading FBI finds Nixon aides sabotaged Democrats, Washington Post reports 40 years ago today (1972)
Video: 'Linda - Behind the Lens(documentary) part 4' (Oct. 9, 1992, at 3:06)
(Friday, October 9, 1992) — Former Beatle Paul McCartney tonight attended a reception for Sixties, an exhibition of wife Linda’s pictures at the Royal Photographic Society in Bath, England.
Video: Oct. 9, 1972 (at 11:35)
(Monday, October 9, 1972, at around 2 a.m. EDT, during the Watergate scandal) — Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward met his FBI source (later known to be Associate FBI Director W. Mark Felt, referred to as “Deep Throat” at this time) in the underground parking garage in Roslyn, Virginia. Felt tells Woodward that employees of the committee to re-elect President Nixon were not only the behind the Watergate break-in but are also deeply involved in all kinds of political sabotage against Nixon’s enemies.
Video: Oct. 8, 1972 (0:41)
(Sunday, October 8, 1972, during the Vietnam War, part of the Cold War) — At the Paris Peace Talks, North Vietnam’s negotiator, Le Duc Tho reached an agreement today with Henry Kissinger of the United States on ending the Vietnam War. Continue reading Major breakthrough reached in Vietnam War peace talks 40 years ago today (1972)
Video: 'Baseball First NL Grand Slam in World Series (History's Playlist)-Sports'
(Monday, October 8, 1962) — Chuck Hiller of the San Francisco Giants today became the first National Leaguer to hit a World Series grand slam with a shot against New York Yankees pitcher Marshall Bridges in game 4. The final score of the game was Giants 7, Yankees 3.
