Video: 'USS Nautilus & Submarine History: "Take 'Er Down" 1954 US Navy 14min' (Jan. 21, 1954, at 11:33)
(Thursday, January 21, 1954; during the Cold War) — The world’s first operational nuclear-powered submarine, the USS Nautilus, was launched today at Groton, Connecticut, as First Lady Mamie Eisenhower christened the vessel with the traditional bottle of champagne broken against the bow.
Video: 'George W. Bush-State of the Union Address (January 20, 2004)'
(Tuesday, January 20, 2004, 9:01 p.m. EST) — President George W. Bush, in his State of the Union address tonight, warned Americans that there could still be a terrorist attack on the United States, and then presented the nation with a choice between his continued leadershi and a return to the “dangerous illusion” that the threat had ended (click here to watch the full video).
(Thursday, January 20, 1994) — Former U.S. President Richard Nixon joined his one-time White House colleagues today to recall the achievements of the Nixon administration and to launch a new Center for Peace and Freedom that they hope will continue the work they started exactly 25 years earlier with his first inauguration (click here to watch a video of the event).
Video: 'Paul McCartney inducts John Lennon into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame'
(Wednesday, January 19, 1994) — Former Beatle Paul McCartney gave a speech tonight during John Lennon’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, 13 years after the ex-Beatle’s murder. Continue reading Paul McCartney inducts John Lennon into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 20 years ago tonight (Jan 19 1994)
Video: 'The Six Million Dollar Man--Population Zero [Jan. 18, 1974]'
(Friday, January 18, 1974, 8:30 p.m. EST) — The Six Million Dollar Man, a television show about a former astronaut with bionic implants working for a fictional government office known as OSI, debuted tonight as a regular series on ABC-TV following three television movies that aired in 1973. It starred Lee Majors, Richard Anderson and Martin E. Brooks.
Video: 'The Beach Boys - Fun Fun Fun'
(Wednesday, January 8, 1964) — The Beach Boys completed work on three songs — Fun, Fun, Fun, The Warmth of the Sun and Why Do Fools Fall In Love — at Gold Star studio in Hollywood, for the album Shut Down Volume 2.
Video: 'Beach Boys-(The Warmth Of The Sun)'
Video: 'Muddy Waters - Hoochie Coochie Man ( Chess 1954)'
(Thursday, January 7, 1954) — Muddy Waters recorded “Hoochie Coochie Man”, a blues standard written by Willie Dixon, today in Chicago. The song was ranked #225 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Video: 'Excerpt from President Eisenhower's 1954 State of the Union Address'
(Thursday, January 7, 1954) — U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower called for voting rights for 18-year-olds and held out hope of future tax cuts in his State of the Union address before Congress today.
Video: 'Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, Jan. 7, 1894'
(Sunday, January 7, 1894) — One of the earliest motion picture experiments took place today at the Thomas Edison studio in West Orange, New Jersey, as Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze (a.k.a. Fred Ott’s Sneeze) was filmed taking a pinch of snuff and sneezing.
(Sunday, January 5, 1964) — During an unprecedented visit to the Holy Land, Pope Paul VI met today with Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople, spirtual leader of world orthodoxy, in Jerusalem (click here to watch moving footage).
