Video: 'Memory of the Camps 1985 PL hardsubs DVBRip' (Apr. 24, 1945, at 19:02/27:30)
(Tuesday, April 24, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — Eyewitnesses today provided filmed testimonies of the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, liberated Apr. 15, 1945, in Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle, by British and Canadian troops. Continue reading Eyewitnesses provide filmed testimonies of Nazi atrocities 70 years ago today (Apr 24 1945)
Video: '1915 AGHET - The Armenian Genocide (In English)'
(Saturday, April 24, 1915, during World War I) — What’s regarded as the start of the Armenian Genocide, which resulted in the death of one to 1.5 million people, began today as the Ottoman Empire rounded up and arrested some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. Continue reading Armenian Genocide begins 100 years ago today (Apr 24 1915)
Video: 'Badfinger Doc 4 of 6' (Apr. 23-24, 1975, at 7:10)
(Friday, April 24, 1975, early morning BST) — Peter Ham, 27, of British rock band Badfinger hanged himself early this morning in his garage studio in Woking, just outside London. He was reported to be depressed about the band’s financial problems.
Video: 'President Gerald Ford - Remarks at Tulane University'
(Wednesday, April 23, 1975, 8:07 p.m. CST; during the 1975 Spring Offensive of the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — Speaking to an audience of students at Tulane University in New Orleans, U.S. President Gerald Ford announced that “Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. But it cannot be achieved by re-fighting a war that is finished as far as America is concerned.” Continue reading President Ford: Vietnam War is over for America 40 years ago this hour (Apr 23 1975)
Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 24-The Bomb(February–September 1945)' (Apr. 23, 1945, at 6:47)
(Monday, April 23, 1945, 5:30 EWT; during World War II) — U.S. President Harry Truman met today at the White House with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and demanded that Russia bide by the Yalta agreement to hold free elections in Poland (click here for a clip of this day on “American Experience: Truman” at 1:38:15).
Video: 'Me at the zoo'
(Saturday, April 23, 2005) — The recently created video-sharing website YouTube uploaded its first clip today. Titled “Me at the Zoo,” the video consisted of 18 seconds of YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim standing in front of an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo, commenting on the animals’ “really, really, really long, uh, trunks.”
Today, YouTube claims more than 1 billion users and says that 300 hours of video are uploaded every minute.
Video: 'The 1985 Launch of New Coke'
(Tuesday, April 23, 1985) — The Coca-Cola Co. announced today in a press conference at New York City’s Lincoln Center it was changing the secret flavor formula for Coke; negative public reaction forced the company to resume selling the original version.
Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 11' (Apr. 23, 1975, at 23:30)
(Wednesday, April 23, 1975; during the 1975 Spring Offensive of the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — 100,000 North Vietnamese communist forces, less than 30 miles from Saigon, begin an advance from five directions with orders to penetrate and occupy the South Vietnamese capitol within a week.
Video: 'Four Tops - I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) (1965) HD 0815007'
(Friday, April 23, 1965) — The Four Tops’ single “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)” was released by Motown. Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song #415 on their list of the “500 Greatest Songs of All Time.”
Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 21-Nemesis:Germany(February-May 1945)' (Apr. 23, 1945, at 33:05)
(Monday, April 23, 1945, afternoon CEST; during the Battle of Berlin on the Eastern Front during World War II) — German Field Marshal and head of the Luftwaffe Hermann Göring sent a telegram to Adolf Hitler today asking for permission to take over the leadership of the Reich in accordance with Hitler’s 1941 decree naming Göring his successor.
Fearing that Göring was threatening a coup, Hitler informed Göring that he would be executed unless he resigned all of his posts. Later that day, Hitler sacked Göring from all of his offices and ordered his arrest.
