Video: 'Fibber Mcgee& Molly First Episode 1935'
(Tuesday, April 16, 1935, 10:00 p.m. EST; during the Great Depression) — The long-running radio comedy program Fibber McGee and Molly, starring Jim and Marian Jordan, premiered tonight on the NBC Blue Network.
Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - Cambodia and Laos [8/11]' (Apr. 17, 1975, at 51:39)
(Thursday, April 17, 1975, 9:00 a.m. ICT; during the Cambodian Civil War, part of the Vietnam War, Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — After five years of savage fighting, the Khmer Republic, the republican government of Cambodia, was defeated today when the victorious Khmer Rouge, followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, proclaimed the establishment of Democratic Kampuchea.
Video: 'The Sinking of the MV Goya - Jessica'
(Monday, April 16, 1945, 11:52 p.m. CEST; during World War II) — A Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea torpedoed and sank the MV Goya, a Norwegian motor freighter which Germany was using to transport civilian refugees and wounded soldiers.
The sinking of the Goya was one of the biggest single-incident maritime losses of life of the war, and as such one of the largest maritime losses of life in history, with just 183 survivors among roughly 6,700 passengers and crew.
Video: 'Truman takes over 1945' (Apr. 16, 1945, at 0:10)
(Monday, April 16, 1945, 1:00 p.m. EWT; during World War II) — U.S. President Harry S. Truman pledged himself today before a joint session of Congress to carry out the war and peace policies of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who died of a stroke four days ago (click here to watch a clip of Apr. 16, 1945, from “American Experience: Truman” at 1:33:52). Continue reading President Truman vows war to finish, strong peace 70 years ago this hour (Apr 16 1945)
Video: 'The Great War episode 8 War Without End' (Apr. 16, 1945, at 45:32)
(Monday, April 16, 1945, during World War II) — Six days before she died, Käthe Kollwitz, 77-year-old German printmaker and sculpto whose work offered an eloquent and often searing account of the human condition, and the tragedy of war, in the first half of the 20th century, composed her final letter today, writing “the accompanies me to the end.”
Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 21-Nemesis:Germany(February-May 1945)' (Apr. 16, 1945, at 16:16)
(Monday, April 16, 1945; during the Battle of Berlin on the Eastern Front during World War II) — The final chapter in the destruction of Hitler’s Third Reich began today when the Soviets unleashed the brutal power of 20 armies, 6,300 tanks and 8,500 aircraft with the objective of crushing German resistance and capturing Berlin.
By prior agreement, the Allied armies (positioned approximately 60 miles to the west) halted their advance on the city in order to give the Soviets a free hand.
Video: 'Bombardment of Ie Shima, Invasion Of Okinawa, 04/1945 (full)'
(Monday, April 16, 1945; during the Battle of Okinawa, part of the Pacific Theatre of World War II) — The 77th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army assaulted Ie Island (Ie Shima), a small island off the western end of the Motobu Peninsula of Okinawa.
