Video: 'Peter Pan' trailer
(Thursday, February 5, 1953) — Peter Pan, an animated film produced by Walt Disney about a girl named Wendy and her brothers who are whisked away to the magical world of Neverland with the hero of their stories, Peter Pan, was released today in U.S. theaters.
Directed by Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske, the film starred Bobby Driscoll, Kathryn Beaumont, Hans Conried, Paul Collins and Tommy Luske.
Video: 'Rosa Parks - Mini Bio'
(Tuesday, February 4, 1913) — Rosa Parks, a black woman whose 1955 refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus to a white man touched off the modern civil rights movement in America, was born Rosa Louise McCauley today in Tuskegee, Alabama.
(Sunday, February 3, 1963, 8 p.m. EST) — Cassius Clay (later named Muhammad Ali) was interviewed by Ed Sullivan on tonight’s edition of the CBS-TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show.
Video: Feb. 3, 1943 (at 52:30)
(Wednesday, February 3, 1943; a day after the Battle of Stalingrad ended on the Eastern Front of World War II) — German radio announced today that Stalingrad had fallen to the Soviets; the 6th Army had fought courageously but had succumbed to vastly superior enemy forces and to unfavorable circumstances. Continue reading German radio announces defeat at Stalingrad 70 years ago today (1943)
Video: 'Lana Clarkson Found Dead in Spector Home'
(Monday, February 3, 2003, about 5 a.m. PST) — Record producer Phil Spector was arrested this morning in relation to an investigation into the fatal shooting of actress Lana Clarkson, 40, in Spector’s mansion (Dupuy’s Pyrenees Castle) in Alhambra, California.
Video: 'Helen Reddy - I Am Woman (Midnight Special - Feb 2, 1973)'
(Saturday February 3, 1973, 1:00 a.m. EST) —Midnight Special, a late-night musical variety series, debuted this morning as a regular series (it had premiered as a special on Aug. 19, 1972) on NBC-TV, with Helen Reddy as the host. Continue reading ‘Midnight Special’ debuts as a series on NBC 40 years ago this hour (1973)
Video: '442nd Regiment of WWII'
(Monday, February 1, 1943; during World War II) — One of America’s most highly decorated military units, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up almost exclusively of Japanese-Americans anxious to prove their loyalty to their country of birth and defy national prejudice that they are aliens and dangerous, was authorized today.
