Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 11' (Apr. 21, 1975, at 40:32)
(Monday, April 21, 1975; during the 1975 Spring Offensive of the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — With Communist forces closing in, South Vietnam’s President Nguyen Van Thieu denouncing the United States as untrustworthy, resigned tonight after 10 years in office. Continue reading South Vietnamese President Thieu resigns as Communist forces close in on Saigon 40 years ago today (Apr 21 1975)
Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 11' (Apr. 21, 1975, at 39:59)
(Monday, April 21, 1975; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — The Battle of Xuan Loc, the last major battle of the Vietnam War in which South Vietnamese army committed almost all their remaining mobile forces under General Le Minh Dao to the defense of Xuan Loc, ended today with a North Vietnamese strategic victory.
Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 21-Nemesis:Germany(February-May 1945)' (Apr. 21, 1945, at 28:15)
(Saturday, April 21, 1945; during the Battle of Berlin on the Eastern Front during World War II) — German dictator Adolf Hitler today ordered the units commanded by Waffen-SS General Felix Steiner to attack the northern flank of the encircling Soviet salient and ordered the German Ninth Army, south-east of Berlin, to attack northward in a pincer attack.
By that evening, Red Army tanks reached the outskirts of Berlin.
Video: 'Ken Burns The Civil War: Episode 9 The Better Angels of Our Nature (1865) |Ken Burns Docum' (Lincoln departs at 21:16)
(Friday, April 21, 1865, 8:00 a.m.; during the American Civil War) — The remains U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and his deceased son, William Wallace Lincoln, left Washington, D.C., today for the 1,654 mile journey to Springfield, Illinois, for burial. Continue reading Lincoln’s body departs Washington 150 years ago this hour (Apr 21 1865)
(Saturday, April 20, 1985) — “Nightshift” by the Commodores peaked at #3 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week.
Video: 'April 20th, 1945 in Nuremberg'
(Friday, April 20, 1945, evening CEST; during the Battle of Nuremberg (1945), part of the Western Allied invasion of Germany during World War II) — the United States Seventh Army today captured the center of Nuremberg, Germany, the second largest city of Bavaria and the high shrine of the Nazi party, capturing the outskirts of Erlenstegen and Buch.
Image: Hitler as photographed on Mar. 20, 1945
(Friday, April 20, 1945; during the Battle of Berlin on the Eastern Front during World War II) — On his 56th birthday, German dictator Adolf Hitler left his Führerbunker to decorate a group of Hitler Youth soldiers in Berlin. It would be his last trip to the surface from his underground bunker.
That afternoon, Berlin was bombarded by Soviet artillery for the first time.
Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 21-Nemesis:Germany(February-May 1945)' (Apr. 20, 1945, at 23:45)
Video: 'Bride of Frankenstein' (trailer)
(Good Friday, April 19, 1935) — Bride of Frankenstein, a horror film about Baron Frankenstein who is forced to tempt fate once again by creating a suitable mate for his monster, premiered today in San Francisco.
Directed by James Whale, the first sequel to Frankenstein (1931) starred Boris Karloff with Elsa Lanchester in the title role.
Video: '"If I Loved You" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel (stage version)'
(Thursday, April 19, 1945, 8:15 p.m. EWT) — Carousel the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics) about a carousel barker whose romance with a millworker comes at the price of both their jobs, opened tonight on Broadway at the Majestic Theatre.
(Saturday, April 19, 1975) — “L-O-V-E (Love)” by Al Green peaked at #13 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks.
