Video: 'American Experience - FDR (Franklin Roosevelt) - Part 1/2 (PBS Documentary' (Apr. 9/11, 1945, at 2:10:18)
(Wednesday, April 11, 1945, lunchtime; during World War II) — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt drove his former mistress Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd, who had arrived at Warm Springs, Georgia, on Monday (Apr. 9, 1945), to Dowdell’s Knob, overlooking a lovely valley, and talked about the future of the world and what he was going to do after the war had ended.
Video: 'Peter Jennings - Hiroshima: Why the Bomb was Dropped (1995)' (Apr. 11, 1945, 34:59)
(Wednesday, April 11, 1945; part of the Pacific War during World War II) — A report from the U.S. Joint Intelligence Staff on Unconditional Surrender of Japan concluded today that a Russian invasion of Japan could be decisive in ending the Pacific War.
Video: 'The Beatles at the NME Poll-Winners' All-Star Concert, 11 April 1965'
(Sunday, April 11, 1965, afternoon BST) — The Beatles topped the bill this afternoon at the 1964-65 New Musical Express Annual Poll-Winners’ All-Star Concert at the Empire Pool in Wembley in London. Continue reading The Beatles headline NME Poll-Winners’ All-Star Concert 50 years ago this afternoon (Apr 11 1965)
Video: 'Buchenwald Concentration Camp'
(Wednesday, April 11, 1945, 3:15 p.m. CEST; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald near Weimar, Germany, where prisoners from all over Europe and the Soviet Union worked primarily as forced labor in local armaments factories, was liberated today by U.S. troops. Continue reading Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald liberated 70 years ago this hour (Apr 11 1945)
Video: 'Nordhausen concentration camp victims, Germany. HD Stock Footage'
(Wednesday, April 11, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The Nazi concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora (also Dora-Mittelbau and Nordhausen-Dora) near Nordhausen in Thuringia, Germany, which supplied labor for extending the nearby tunnels in the Kohnstein and for manufacturing the V-2 rocket and the V-1 flying bomb, was liberated today by U.S. troops.
Around one in three of the roughly 60,000 prisoners who were sent to Mittelbau since it was established in late summer 1943 as a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp did not survive.
Video: 'Madonna The Virgin Tour Seattle's Paramount Theatre'
(Wednesday, April 10, 1985) — Singer Madonna launched “The Virgin Tour”, her first major U.S. tour, with a concert tonight at the Paramount Theater in Seattle.
Video: 'Gerald Ford-Address on U.S. Foreign Policy (April 10, 1975)'
(Thursday, April 10, 1975, 9:00 p.m. EDT; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — U.S. President Gerald Ford appealed to Congress tonight to approve “without delay” nearly a billion dollars in military and humanitarian aid for Saigon to give South Vietnam a chance to “save itself” as a country and make possible a large-scale evacuation of Americans and South Vietnamese “should the worst come to pass” (click here to watch the complete speech).
Video: 'Rosemary Clooney "Mambo Italiano" on The Ed Sullivan Show'
(Sunday, April 10, 1955, 8 p.m. EST) — Rosemary Clooney performed “Mambo Italiano” on tonight’s live edition of the CBS-TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show.
Video: 'Ken Burns - The Civil War: Episode 8 - War Is All Hell (1865) | Ken Burns Documentary' (Apr. 10, 1865, 1:03:08)
(Monday, April 10, 1865, 5:00 p.m.; during the American Civil War) — In Washington, fireworks filled the sky tonight in celebration of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox yesterday. A great crowd gathered around the White House called for President Abraham Lincoln, but he was too weary to make a formal speech. Continue reading Washington celebrates Lee’s surrender, but Lincoln too weary to deliver formal speech 150 years ago this hour (Apr 10 1865)
(Saturday, April 10, 1965) — “I’m Telling You Now” by Freddie and the Dreamers peaked at #1 on today’s Billboard‘s Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks (Apr. 10/17, 1965).
