Video 'Woman Struck by Meteorite | Smarter Every Day 84'
(Tuesday, November 30, 1954, 1:00 p.m. local time) — The Hodges Meteorite crashed through a roof today and struck a woman taking an afternoon nap In Sylacauga, Alabama, in the only documented case of a human being hit by a rock from space.
Video: 'Paul McCartney on Entertainment Tonight - 1984'
(Tuesday, November 27, 1984) — A Beatles convention in Los Angeles was featured on today’s edition of Entertainment Tonight. The program also included a previously recorded separate interview with former Beatle Paul McCartney (taped Oct. 25, 1984).
(Friday, November 25, 1864, beginning around 8:45 p.m. local time; during American Civil War) — A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan started fires today (the day after Thanksgiving Day, what is now known as Black Friday) in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.
Image: John Wilkes Booth, Edwin Booth and Junius Booth, Jr. (from left to right) in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in 1864.
(Friday, November 25, 1864, evening local time; during American Civil War) — Actor John Wilkes Booth (later the assassin of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln) played Mark Antony today in a benefit performance of Julius Caesar at the Winter Garden Theater in New York City (with his brothers Junius, Jr. and Edwin). This landmark production raised funds to erect a statue of Shakespeare in Central Park, which remains to this day. Continue reading John Wilkes Booth acts in ‘Julius Caesar’ benefit performance in New York City 150 years ago tonight (Nov 25 1864)
Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - LBJ Goes to War [3/11]' (November 1964 at 28:25)
(Wednesday, November 25, 1964; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — Measures based on martial law were imposed on Saigon, South Vietnam, tonight after rioting that spread across the capital.
(Saturday, November 25, 1944, 12:26 p.m. BST; during World War II) — A German V-2 rocket fell on a packed Woolworths store today in New Cross Road, South London, killing 168 people (including 15 children), injuring 122 others and razing the building to the ground. The neighbouring London Co-operative Society store was also demolished in the attack.
(Friday, November 25, 1944, noon local time, Thursday, November 24, 1944, 11:00 p.m. EWT; during the Bombing of Tokyo, part of the Pacific Theatre of World War II) — U.S. bombers based on Saipan attacked Tokyo today in the first raid against the Japanese capital by land-based planes.
Video: 'Meeting in Vladivostok (1974)' (Nov. 23-24, 1974)
(Sunday, November 24, 1974) — American President Gerald Ford and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev agreed today to terms that would limit both nations an “equal aggregate number” of various weapons on the second and final day of the Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control.
Video: '1984 - Doug Flutie's Miracle pass.mpg'
(Friday, November 23, 1984, late afternoon EST) — Quarterback Doug Flutie enhanced his legend today with a last-play touchdown pass that soared 64 yards, just out of reach of three defenders at the goal-line and into the hands of Gerard Phelan to give Boston College a 47-45 victory over Miami before a crowd of 30,235 in the Orange Bowl. Continue reading Flutie’s last-second Hail Mary pass overcomes Miami 30 years ago today (Nov 23 1984)
Video: 'Meeting in Vladivostok (1974)' (Nov. 23-24, 1974)
(Saturday, November 23, 1974) — The Vladivostok Summit Meeting on Arms Control, a two-day summit between American President Gerald Ford and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev for the purpose of extending arms control provisions between the Soviet Union and the United States, began this afternoon in Vladivostok, Russia. Continue reading Ford, Brezhnev begin two-day summit in Vladivostok, Russia 40 years ago today (Nov 23 1974)
