Video: 'The Beatles - The American Tour with Ed Rudy (Interviews)' (Feb. 8, 1964, 20:03-34:07)
(Saturday, February 8, 1964) — Beatle George Harrison, suffering from a streptococcal sore throat and resting at New York’s Plaza Hotel, was interviewed today via telephone by newsman Ed Rudy. The interview later appeared on Rudy’s documentary LP of the group’s U.S. visit. Continue reading Beatle George Harrison interviewed by Ed Rudy 50 years ago today (Feb 8 1964)
(Friday, February 8, 1924, 9:40 a.m. local time) — The first execution by gas in the United States took place today at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City as Gee Jon, a convicted of murder, was put to death.
Video: 'Port Arthur The Fall of Western Supremcy and the Rise of the Japenese Empire 2'
(Tuesday, February 9, 1904, 12:28 a.m. local time) — The Russo-Japanese War, a conflict over control of Manchuria and Korea, began today as the Japanese fleet under Admiral Togo Heihachiro launched a surprise torpedo boat destroyer attack on the Russian ships at Port Arthur.
Video: 'Radio News Coverage: Skylab 3 Part 6' (splashdown coverage at 35:37)
(Friday, February 8, 11:16:53 a.m. EDT; part of NASA’s Skylab program) — The last three-man crew of the Skylab space station, consisting of Jerry Carr, Bill Pogue and Edward Gibson, returned to Earth today after spending 84 days in space, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean some 176 miles southwest of San Diego. Skylab remained in orbit another five years before plunging to its destruction in 1979.
Video: ‘”Drive My Car” – RADD’
(Monday, February 7, 1994, 8:00 p.m. EST) — A video clip for “Drive My Car” by RAADD (Recording Artists Against Drunk Driving) was broadcast tonight during ABC-TV’s showing of the annual American Music Awards, featuring ex-Beatle Paul McCartney as the main vocalist with appearances by ex-Beatle Ringo Starr and many other artists.
(Friday, February 7, 1964, evening EST) — The Beatles were interviewed by Brian Matthew for the BBC’s Saturday Club radio program via telephone from London in their suite at the Plaza Hotel in New York City for airing the next day at 10 a.m. (click here to listen to the BBC program).
Video: 'Space Shuttle STS-41-B (STS-10) Post Flight Press Conference Film pt2-2 1984 NASA'
(Tuesday, February 7, 1984) — Space shuttle Challenger astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered space walk today, which lasted nearly six hours.
(Monday, February 7, 1944) — Bing Crosby and the John Scott Trotter Orchestra recorded “Swinging on a Star” today for Decca Records in Los Angeles. It would appear in the film Going My Way.
Video: 'The Beatles - Press Conference at JFK Airport (1964)'
(Friday, February 7, 1964, 2:00 p.m. EST) — The Beatles cracked wise during a chaotic press conference today, shortly after their arrival at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport for their first visit of the United States.
Video: 'Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914) - 1st Charlie Chaplin Movie Appearance as The Tramp - Henry Lehrman'
(Monday, February 2, 1914) — Kid Auto Races at Venice, a film starring Charles Chaplin in which his “Little Tramp” character makes his first appearance in a film exhibited before the public, premiered today in the U.S.
Directed by Henry Lehrman, the film also starred Lehrman, Frank D. Williams, Billy Jacobs, Charlotte Fitzpatrick, Thelma Salter and Gordon Griffith.
