Video: 'The Jeffersons Season 1 Episode 1 A Friend in Need'
(Saturday, January 18, 1975, 8:30 p.m. EST) — The Jeffersons have moved on up and are now enjoying living in their new high-rise apartment on the premiere episode of the situation comedy series The Jeffersons tonight on CBS-TV. Continue reading ‘The Jeffersons’ series debuts on CBS-TV 40 years ago this hour (Jan 18 1975)
Video: 'Water' trailer
(Friday, January 18, 1985) — Water, a comedy film about five criminals who are recruited by a mysterious underworld figure to stop a drug transaction, premiered today at the Odeon Cinema in London.
Directed by Dick Clement, the film starred Michael Caine, Valerie Perrine, Brenda Vaccaro, Billy Connolly, Chris Tummings and Leonard Rossiter. It also featured cameo appearances by former Beatles George Harrison (the film’s co-producer) and Ringo Starr.
(Saturday, January 18, 1975) — “Mandy” by Barry Manilow peaked at #1 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week. It was Manilow’s first of three number one hits on the chart (1975-1977).
(Saturday, January 18, 1975) — “Ride ‘Em Cowboy” by Paul Davis peaked at #23 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week.
Video: 'Baretta S01E01 - He'll Never See Daylight' (Jan. 17, 1975)
(Friday, January 17, 1975, 10:00 p.m. EST) — Baretta vows revenge on the underworld mob boss who has his thugs murder his girlfriend on the premiere episode of the undercover cop drama series Baretta, starring Robert Blake, tonight on ABC-TV.
Video: 'American Experience - Battle of the Bulge (PBS Documentary)' (Jan. 17, 1945, at 1:06:33)
(Wednesday, January 17, 1945; during the Battle of the Bulge on the Western Front of World War II) — “The day after Houffalize was taken, Patton congratulated his corps commanders on their victory at the Battle of the Bulge, but whatever the papers said, this fight was not over…”
Video: 'Popular Raoul Wallenberg Videos'
(Wednesday, January 17, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews, disappeared today in Hungary while in Soviet custody.
Video: 'Soviet Drive On Warsaw (1945)'
(Wednesday, January 17, 1945; during the Vistula–Oder Offensive, part of the Eastern front of World War II) — Russian and Polish troops today captured devastated Warsaw to free its last survivors of five years of Nazi tyranny as the Red Army’s greatest offensive surged twenty-four miles across western Poland, taking Czestochowa and reaching within fourteen miles of the German border.
Video: 'Star Trek: Voyager Caretaker'
(Monday, January 16, 1995, 8:00 p.m. EST) — The now-defunct United Paramount Network (UPN) made its debut tonight by broadcasting the first episode of Star Trek: Voyager.
Video: 'Great Hanshin/Kobe Earthquake 1995 - CCTV Footage 1'
(Tuesday, January 17, 1995, at 05:46 JST, January 16 at 20:46 UTC) — More than 6,000 people were killed this morning when the Great Hanshin earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 devastated the city of Kobe, Japan. The earthquake caused approximately ten trillion yen ($100 billion) in damage, 2.5% of Japan’s GDP at the time. Continue reading Magnitude 7.3 earthquake near Kobe, Japan kills 6,434 people 20 years ago this hour (Jan 17 1995)
