Video: 'Dachau Concentration Camp Liberation'
(Sunday, April 29, 1945, 11:00 a.m. CEST; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The remaining 3,000 inmates, including 1,400 women, at the Nazi concentration camp Dachau, located on the grounds of an abandoned munitions factory southeast of the medieval town of Dachau, about 16 km (10 mi) northwest of Munich, were liberated today by American troops. Continue reading Nazi concentration camp Dachau liberated 70 years ago this hour (Apr 29 1945)
Video: 'Angry mob and bodies of Barrocu, Terussi, Gelormini, Benito Mussolini, Petacci, P...HD Stock Footage'
(Sunday, April 29, 1945; during World War II) — The bodies of former Italian fascist dictator (and strong ally of German Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler) Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci, were hoisted up on to the metal girder framework of a half-built Standard Oil service station today in Milan, and hung upside down on meat hooks. Continue reading Bodies of Mussolini, mistress hung upside down in Milan 70 years ago today (Apr 29 1945)
Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 11' (Apr. 29, 1975, at 42:54)
(Tuesday, April 29, 1975, 2:00 p.m. ICT; during the 1975 Spring Offensive of the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — U.S. President Gerald Ford ordered the emergency evacuation today of all Americans remaining in South Vietnam. Continue reading U.S. begins withdrawing Americans from Saigon by helicopter 40 years ago this hour (Apr 29 1975)
Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 11' (Apr. 29, 1975, at 41:50)
(Tuesday, April 29, 1975; during the 1975 Spring Offensive of the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — Saigon’s Tan Son Nhut airport came under the heaviest rocket attack of the war early this morning, preventing passenger planes from taking off, as North Vietnamese troops assaulted parts of the city’s suburbs. But U.S. ambassador, Graham Martin was still reluctant to begin a full-scale helicopter evacuation. Continue reading Saigon’s airport under rocket fire 40 years ago today (Apr 29 1975)
Video: ''Funny Girl' Sequence from My Name is Barbra'
(Wednesday, April 28, 1965, scheduled for 9:00 p.m. EDT, although probably delayed by President Johnson’s announcement on the Dominican Republic) — Barbra Streisand’s first TV special My Name Is Barbra aired tonight on CBS in conjunction with Streisand’s fifth studio album My Name Is Barbra.
Video: 'President Johnson's Remarks on the Dominican Crisis, 4/28/65, MP545.'
(Wednesday, April 28, 1965, 8:51 p.m. EDT) — U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announced tonight that he’s sending more than 22,000 troops to the Dominican Republic in an effort to forestall a “communist dictatorship.”
Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 21-Nemesis:Germany(February-May 1945)' (Apr. 29, 1945, at 43:20)
(Sunday, April 29, 1945, after midnight CEST; during the Battle of Berlin on the Eastern Front during World War II) — German dictator Adolf Hitler married Eva Braun today in a small civil ceremony within the Führerbunker, an air-raid shelter located near the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. Hitler then took secretary Traudl Junge to another room and dictated his last will and testament.
Video: 'Help 1965' (Apr. 28, 1965, at 1:04:38-1:08:31)
(Wednesday, April 28, 1965, afternoon) — The Beatles filmed the interior pub scene for their second feature film Help! today at Twickenham Film Studios in London, which culminated with Ringo Starr falling through a trapdoor into a cellar (cellar scenes were shot Apr. 7, 1965; external pub scenes shot Apr. 24, 1965). Continue reading The Beatles film interior pub scene for ‘Help!’ film, accept Grammy award 50 years ago this afternoon (Apr 28 1965)
Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 2' (Apr. 28, 1955, at 12:20)
(Thursday, April 28, 1955; during the Cold War) — The Battle of Saigon, a month-long battle between the Vietnamese National Army of the State of Vietnam (later to become the Army of the Republic of Vietnam) and the private army of the Bình Xuyên organised crime syndicate, began today. Continue reading Battle of Saigon begins 60 years ago today (Apr 28 1955)
