Video: 'Liberation of Flossenburg Concentration Camp'
(Monday, April 23, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The remaining 3,000 inmates, including 1,400 women, at the Nazi concentration camp Flossenbürg in the Upper Palatinate region of Bavaria, Germany, near the border with Czechoslovakia, were liberated today by the U.S. Army.
More than 96,000 prisoners passed through the camp since it opened in May 1938. About 30,000 died there.
Video: 'Ken Burns The Civil War: Episode 9 The Better Angels of Our Nature (1865) |Ken Burns Docum' (Apr. 22, 1865 at 22:13)
(Saturday, April 22, 1865, 4:50 p.m.; during the American Civil War) — The remains of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and his deceased son, William Wallace Lincoln, stopped in Philadelphia, today as part of a 1,654 mile journey to Springfield, Illinois, for burial.
Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 24-The Bomb(February–September 1945)' (Apr. 22, 1945, at 6:17)
(Sunday, April 22, 1945, 5:46 p.m. EWT; during World War II) — Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrived in Washington by plane from Moscow today. And within four hours began conferring with U.S. Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden on the question of the representation of Poland at the United Nations Conference on International Organization, which is scheduled to open at San Francisco on Apr. 25, 1945.
Video: 'Deadly Battles of World War I - Ypres the Gas Inferno'
(Thursday, April 22, 1915, at around 5:00 p.m. CET; part of the Western Front of World War I) — The first full-scale use of deadly chemicals in warfare took place today as German forces unleashed chlorine gas against Allied troops at the start of the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium during World War I; thousands of soldiers are believed to have died. Continue reading Germans launch first-full scale use of deadly chemicals in warfare 100 years ago this hour (Apr 22 1915)
Video: 'Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp'
(Sunday, April 22, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The remaining 3,000 inmates, including 1,400 women, at the Nazi concentration camp Sachsenhausen in Oranienburg, Germany, (35 km north of the center of Berlin) used primarily for political prisoners, were liberated today by the Red Army and the Polish Army’s 2nd Infantry Division.
Some 30,000 inmates died there from exhaustion, disease, malnutrition, pneumonia, etc. due to the poor living conditions between 1936 and 1945. Many were executed or died as the result of brutal medical experimentation.
Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 21-Nemesis:Germany(February-May 1945)' (Apr. 22, 1945, at 29:48)
(Sunday, April 22, 1945, early afternoon CEST; during the Battle of Berlin on the Eastern Front during World War II) — At his afternoon situation conference today, German dictator Adolf Hitler was told units commanded by Waffen-SS General Felix Steiner had not moved after being ordered to attack the northern flank of the encircling Soviet salient. Continue reading Hitler falls into tearful rage when General Steiner fails to move 70 years ago this afternoon (Apr 22 1945)
Video: 'The Beach Boys -- Shindig! -- 1965/04/21 -- Full Live Appearance -- [ remastered, 60FPS 4K ]'
(Wednesday, April 21, 1965, 8:30-9:30 p.m. EST) — The Beach Boys made their second appearance on ABC’s Shindig! program tonight, performing six songs (taped Mar. 29, 1965 in Los Angeles), including “Do You Wanna Dance,” “Fun Fun Fun,” “Long Tall Texan,” “Please Let Me Wonder,” “Help Me Rhonda” and “Their Hearts Were Full of Spring.”
(Thursday, April 21, 1955, 8:00 p.m. EST) — The Jerome Lawrence-Robert Lee play Inherit the Wind, a story that fictionalizes the 1925 Scopes “Monkey” Trial as a means to discuss the then-contemporary McCarthy trials, opened tonight on Broadway at the National Theatre in New York.
Video: 'George Harrison - "Extra Texture (Read All About It)" [Full Album]'
(Monday, April 21, 1975) — Former Beatle George Harrison began recording the basic tracks for the new songs for his sixth solo studio album Extra Texture (Read All About It) today at A&M Studios in Los Angeles, beginning with “Tired of Midnight Blue” and “The Answer’s at the End.” Recording of the basic tracks continued through May 7, 1975, with overdubs laid down between May 31-June 9, 1975.
