Video: 'Space Shuttle Challenger - STS-7 Landing'
(Friday, June 24, 1983, 6:57 a.m. PDT) — The space shuttle Challenger — carrying America’s first woman in space, Sally K. Ride — coasted to a safe landing today at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Video: '1993: Action News 8 coverage of Yale Bombing'
(Thursday, June 24, 1993, about 8:15 a.m. EDT) — David Gelernter, a Yale University computer scientist, was seriously injured today by a mail bomb sent from the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski.
Video: 'Bee Gees - Message To You (1973) Live!'
(Saturday, June 23, 1973, 1:00 a.m. EST) — The Bee Gees and Wilson Pickett were among the performers on tonight’s episode of the late-night musical variety NBC-TV series The Midnight Special as hosted again tonight by the Bee Gees. Continue reading The Bee Gees, Wilson Pickett perform on ‘Midnight Special’ 40 years ago this hour (1973)
Audio: 'The Beatles - Juke Box Jury (29th June 1963)'
(Saturday, June 22, 1963, 8:30-9:15 p.m. BST) — John Lennon appeared without the other Beatles tonight on the BBC television show Juke Box Jury for broadcast on June 29, 1963, at 6:35 p.m. (only some of the audio survives).
Video: 'Mini BIO - Pat Nixon'
(Tuesday, June 22, 1993, 5:45 a.m. EDT) — Former U.S. First Lady Patricia Nixon, who served with her husband President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1974, died at her home in Park Ridge, New Jersey, today, the day after her 53rd wedding anniversary. She was 81. Her daughters and husband were by her side.
Video: 'elezione Papa Paolo VI (1963)'
(Friday, June 21, 1963) — Giovanni Battista Montini, the Archbishop of Milan was elected today as the 262nd pope, succeeding the late Pope John XXIII, who died June 3, 1963. Cardinal Montini would take the regnal name Pope Paul VI and would lead the Roman Catholic Church until his death in 1978.
Video: '1943 Riots'
(Sunday, June 20, 1943) — A fistfight at the crowded Belle Isle Park in Detroit, Michigan, erupted into a riot late tonight between white and black residents. 34 people were killed and 760 injured before federal troops were sent in June 22, 1943, to restore the peace.
Video: 'The Great Escape' trailer
(Thursday, June 20, 1963) — The Great Escape, a film about an escape by Allied prisoners of war from a German POW camp during World War II, premiered today in London.
Directed by John Sturges, the film stars Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence and James Coburn.
Video: 'Dr. Strangelove phone conversation U.S President'
(Thursday, June 20, 1963) — The Moscow–Washington hotline (officially, the Direct Communications Link or DCL) was authorized today by the signing of a “Memorandum of Understanding Regarding the Establishment of a Direct Communications Line” in Geneva, Switzerland, by representatives of the Soviet Union and the United States. The agreement resulted from the Cuban Missile Crisis, which made it clear that reliable, direct communications between the two nuclear powers were a necessity.
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.
