Video: 'Rocky Horror Show'
(Tuesday, June 19, 1973) — The stage production of The Rocky Horror Show premiered today at Royal Court Theatre (Upstairs) in London. The rock musical tells the story of a newly engaged couple getting caught in a storm and coming to the home of a mad transvestite scientist unveiling his new creation, a muscle man named Rocky Horror.
(Wednesday, June 19, 1963, during the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–68)) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy sent Congress today a five-point civil rights program (which would eventually become the Civil Rights Act of 1964), providing the most “responsible, reasonable and urgently needed solutions” to discrimination in public accommodations, education and employment.
