Video: 'The Beach Boys - Surfin' U.S.A.'
(Thursday, January 31, 1963, 8:00-11:30 p.m. PST) — The Beach Boys tonight completed recordings (that both began Jan. 5, 1963) of “Surfin’ USA” and “Shut Down” for the album Surfin’ USA at Western Recorders Studio in Hollywood. Continue reading The Beach Boys complete ‘Surfin’ USA’ and ‘Shut Down’ 50 years ago this hour (1963)
Video: 'Michael Jackson - Super Bowl (Complete Version) (HQ)'
(Sunday, January 31, 1993) — Michael Jackson and 3,500 children performed during halftime today at the Super Bowl. He sang a variety of his hits, including “Heal The World.” The game began with country star Garth Brooks singing the “Star-Spangled Banner.” Actress Marlee Matlin interpreted the song in sign language.
(Saturday, January 31, 1863; during the American Civil War) — The First South Carolina Volunteers, an all-black Union regiment composed of escaped slaves from South Carolina and Florida, was mustered into federal service today at Beaufort, South Carolina.
Video: Event of Jan. 30, 1943 described w/cover video of Jan. 31, 1943 (at 46:05)
(Saturday, January 30, 1943; during the Battle of Stalingrad on the Eastern Front of World War II) — German dictator Adolf Hitler today promoted Gen. Friedrich Paulus to Generalfeldmarschall. Since no German Field Marshal had ever been taken prisoner, Hitler assumed that Paulus would fight on or take his own life.
Video: 'First Lone Ranger!' (parts 1-4)
(Monday, January 30, 1933) — The first episode of The Lone Ranger radio program, about a masked ex-Texas Ranger who, with his Native American companion Tonto, fights injustice in the American Old West, was broadcast today on station WXYZ in Detroit.
Video: 'Shosone Bear River Massacre' (parts 1-3)
(Thursday, January 29, 1863; part of the American Indian Wars and the American Civil War) — The Bear River Massacre took place as the U.S. Army attacked Shoshone in present-day Idaho.
Video: 'Barnaby Jones - S1E1 - Requiem For A Son' (Jan. 28, 1973)
(Sunday, January 28, 1973, 9:30 p.m. EST) —Barnaby_Jones, a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles, debuted tonight on CBS-TV.
Image: U.S. bombs Wilhelmshaven, Germany (Jan. 27, 1943)
(Wednesday, January 27, 1943; during World War II) — 91 bombers from the U.S. Eighth Air Force, a combination of B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators, mounted the first American airstrike inside Germany today.
55 of the B-17s made a daylight raid on the submarine bases at Wilhelmshaven. All of the aircraft were able to return to base.
Video: '**** She ** Done ** Him ** Wrong ** (1933) ****'
(Friday, January 27, 1933) — She Done Him Wrong, a romantic comedy film about a saloon singer who fights off smugglers, an escaped con and a Salvation Army officer out to reform her, premiered today in the U.S.
Directed by Lowell Sherman, the film stars Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland and Noah Beery, Sr.
Video: 'State of the Union: President Reagan's State of the Union Speech - 1/25/83'
(Tuesday, January 25, 1983, 9 p.m. EST) — U.S. President Ronald Reagan, declaring that “America is on the mend” in his second State of the Union message, urged Congress tonight to support a broad freeze in the growth of domestic spending — necessary, he said, to assure a strong economic recovery.
