Video: 'The Miracle of Morgan's Creek' (trailer)
(Wednesday, January 5, 1944) — The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek, a screwball comedy film about a small-town girl who wakes up after an all-night send-off party for the troops to find herself married and pregnant but with no memory of her husband’s identity, premiered today in New York City. Continue reading ‘The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek’ premieres in New York City 70 years ago today (Jan 5 1944)
Video: 'American Experience - Henry Ford - 5 Dollar A Day Wage'
(Monday, January 5, 1914) — Auto industrialist Henry Ford announced today he was going to pay workers $5 for an 8-hour day, as opposed to $2.34 for a 9-hour day. Employees still worked six days a week; the 5-day work week was instituted in 1926.
(Saturday, January 4, 1964) — Pope Paul VI began a visit to the Holy Land today. It was the first time a reigning pontiff had flown on an airplane, the first papal pilgrimage to the Holy Land and the first time a Pope had left Italy in more than a century (click here and here and here to watch footage from Jan. 4, 1964).
Video: 'Barry Goldwater Announces His Candidiacy'
(Friday, January 3, 1964) — Arizona’s Sen. Barry Goldwater declared today he will seek the 1964 Republican presidential nomination because he sees no other announced candidate who “could possibly offer to the people of America a clear choice” next November.
Video: 'Siskel & Ebert - The Best of 1993'
(Saturday, January 1, 1994) — Film critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert today both picked Schindler’s List, an epic drama film about of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than a thousand mostly Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories, as the best film of 1993.
Video: 'NEED TO KNOW | After NAFTA | PBS'
(Saturday, January 1, 1994) — The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral rules-based trade bloc in North America, came into force today. The AFL-CIO blamed the agreement for sending 700,000 American manufacturing jobs to Mexico by 2011.
Video: 'Breaking Up Is Hard On You - Bell System Divestiture'
(Sunday, January 1, 1984) — The breakup of AT&T took place today as the telecommunications giant was divested of its 22 Bell System companies under terms of an antitrust agreement.
