Video: 'Ken Burns The Civil War: Episode 9 The Better Angels of Our Nature (1865) |Ken Burns Docum' (May 10, 1865 at 26:45)
(Wednesday, May 10, 1865, dawn) — Union forces led by Lieutenant Colonel Benjamin D. Pritchard captured Confederate President Jefferson Davis today at a military camp in Irwinville, Georgia.
Video: 'Technology News Timeline 1975 - Betamax Video Tape Recorder Debut'
(Saturday, May 10, 1975) — Sony began selling its Betamax home videocassette recorder today in Japan, launching the death of appointment television viewing.
Video: 'Reflections Of A Different Time - Lucille Ball and Harpo Marx - I Love Lucy - Mirror Sketch'
(Monday, May 9, 1955, 9:00 p.m. EDT) — The gang meets Harpo Marx and Lucy does the famous ‘mirror’ routine with him on tonight’s episode of the CBS-TV sitcom series I Love Lucy.
Video: 'Vladimir Horowitz - At Carnegie Hall May 9 1965'
(Sunday, May 9, 1965, 3:38 p.m. EDT) — Russian-born American pianist Vladimir Horowitz performed publicly for the first time in 12 years today with a recital at Carnegie Hall in New York.
Video: 'Help 1965' (May 9, 1965, at 11:09-11:49; 16:24-16:33; 17:42-18:38; 22:43-22:52)
(Sunday, May 9, 1965) — The Beatles filmed a number of scenes for their second feature film Help! today in London and St Margaret’s, Twickenham. Continue reading The Beatles film four exterior scenes for ‘Help!’ film 50 years ago today (May 9 1965)
(Tuesday, May 9, 1865; during the American Civil War) — U.S. President Andrew Johnson issued a proclamation today declaring the American Civil War may be regarded as “virtually at an end” and that nations or ships still harboring fugitives would be denied entry into U.S. ports. Persons found aboard such vessels would no longer be given immunity from prosecution of their crimes.
Video: 'STUTTHOF-NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP'
(Wednesday, May 9, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The Stutthof concentration camp, built in a secluded, wet, and wooded area near the small town of Sztutowo (Stutthof) 34 km (21 mi) east of the city of Gdansk in northern Poland, was liberated today by Soviet forces. Continue reading Stutthof becomes last Nazi concentration camp liberated by Allies 70 years ago today (May 9 1945)
Video: 'Schindler's List (8/9) Movie CLIP - He Who Saves One Life Saves the World Entire (1993) HD'
(Wednesday, May 9, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The labor camp Brünnlitz, a sub-camp of the Nazi concentration camp Gross-Rosen located in the village of Brnenec in the Czech Republic where 1,200 Jews worked in a munitions factory, was liberated today by Soviet troops about 11 hours after their protector Oskar Schindler escaped. Continue reading Oskar Schindler’s labor camp Brünnlitz liberated 70 years ago today (May 9 1945)
Video: 'Liberation Of Prague (1945)'
(Wednesday, May 9, 1945, 10:00 a.m. CEST; during the Prague Offensive on the Eastern Front of World War II) — With World War II in Europe at an end, Soviet forces liberated Czechoslovakia from Nazi occupation today. Continue reading Soviet forces liberate Czechoslovakia 70 years ago this hour (May 9 1945)
Video: 'Theresienstadt'
(Tuesday, May 8, 1945, evening; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The Theresienstadt concentration camp, established in the fortress and garrison city of Terezín (German name Theresienstadt), located in what is now the Czech Republic, was liberated today by Soviet troops. Continue reading Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt liberated 70 years ago tonight (May 8 1945)
