Video: 'The Diary of ANNE FRANK (Part Two) - 06/17' (Jan. 13, 1943, at 0:15)
(Wednesday, January 13, 1943; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — On Anne Frank’s 192nd day in hiding in a secret apartment behind her father’s business in German-occupied Amsterdam, the 13-year-old girl described today in her diary the suffering of people outside and considers how selfish the members of the Secret Annex are to talk about what they will do or buy “after the war.”
Video: 'Paul McCartney Movin' On Documentary' (Jan. 12, 1993, at 31:51/33:30/50:14/55:25)
(Tuesday, January 12, 1993) — Paul McCartney and his band were filmed today performing “Twenty Flight Rock,” “Get Out of My Way” and “Biker Like an Icon” at Pinewood Studios near London for the documentary Movin’ On.
Video: 'The World At War: Red Star The Soviet Union 4/5' (Jan. 12, 1942, at 0:20)
(Tuesday, January 12, 1943, 9:30 a.m. local time; part of the Eastern Front of World War II) — The Russians launched Operation Iskra today as the Soviet 67th Army began its final assault on the German occupation of Leningrad.
Video: Jan. 11, 1973 (at 13:25)
(Thursday, January 11, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — Former CIA agent and White House aide E. Howard Hunt, one of the seven defendants in the Watergate bugging case, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy, burglary and eavesdropping in the June 1972 break-in at Democratic national headquarters, leaving six other defendants to face trial.
Video: Jan. 11, 1973 (6:03)
(Thursday, January 11, 1973; during the Vietnam War) — National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger cabled U.S. President Richard Nixon from Paris today that the agreement to end the Vietnam War was ready. The terms were almost identical to those laid down in October 1972.
Video: 'AIR FORCE ONE: THE PLANES AND THE PRESIDENTS" (PART 1)' (Jan. 11, 1943, at 3:58)
(Monday, January 11, 1943, shortly after 6:00 a.m. local time; during World War II) — Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to fly while in office today as he left Miami today for a top-secret meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Morocco. Continue reading Franklin Roosevelt becomes first sitting U.S. president to fly in a plane 70 years ago this hour (1943)
Video: 'President John F. Kennedy - January 1963'
(Tuesday, January 8, 1963, 9:30 p.m. EST) — Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa on loan to the United States from the Louvre Museum in Paris, went on display today at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., with President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, in attendance. Continue reading Kennedy welcomes da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ to Washington 50 years ago this hour (1963)
Video: 'John Lennon "Love" (Single Edit-1982)'
(Saturday, January 8, 1983) — The John Lennon Collection by ex-Beatle John Lennon peaked at #33 on today’s Billboard 200 albums chart for four weeks.
Video: Jan. 8, 1973 (at 13:11)
(Monday, January 8, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica began selecting jurors today in Washington for the long-awaited trial of seven men charged in the June 1972 Watergate burglary, for which several past and present White House aides were named as prospective government witnesses.
Video: Jan. 8, 1943 (at 42:33)
(Friday, January 8, 1943; during the Battle of Stalingrad on the Eastern Front of World War II) — Gen. Konstantin Rokossovsky, commander of the Red Army on the Don front, called a cease fire today and offered German Gen. Friedrich Paulus terms of surrender. However, when Paulus asked Adolf Hitler, Führer of Germany, for permission to surrender, Hitler rejected this request almost out of hand and ordered him to hold Stalingrad to the last man.
