Video: 'DO THEY KNOW ITS CHRISTMAS MAKING OF 1'
(Sunday, November 25, 1984) — Thirty-six top musicians gathered today at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London, and recorded Band Aid‘s “Do They Know It’s Christmas” in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. Continue reading Rock stars record Ethiopia famine benefit song in London 30 years ago today (Nov 25 1984)
Video: '# 51. The Beatles - (BBC Radio, "Saturday Club" # 10, December 26, 1964)'
(Wednesday, November 25, 1964, 7:00-10:30 p.m. GMT) — The Beatles recorded an appearance tonight for the BBC Light Programme Saturday Club at Studio 2, Aeolian Hall in London, for airing on Dec. 26, 1964, at 10 a.m. Continue reading The Beatles record performances for ‘Saturday Club’ 50 years ago this hour (Nov 25 1964)
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.
(Saturday, November 24, 1984) — “I Feel for You” by Chaka Khan at #3 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for three weeks.
(Saturday, November 24, 1984) — “Better Be Good to Me” by Tina Turner at #5 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks.
Video: 'John Lennon & Elton John Rehearsal - I Saw Her Standing There'
(Sunday, November 24, 1974) — Ex-Beatle John Lennon joined Elton John in rehearsals today at the Record Plant studios in New York, for Elton’s Nov. 28, 1974, Thanksgiving concert at Madison Square Garden. Lennon had agreed to Elton’s suggestion that if “Whatever Gets You Thru The Night” made it to number one in the charts (which it did on Nov. 16, 1974), they would perform together.
Video: 'Presidential Minute With Zachary Taylor'
(Wednesday, November 24, 1784) — Zachary Taylor, the 12th President of the United States (1849-1850), was born today on a plantation in Barboursville, Virginia.
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.
