Video: 'Marilyn Monroe & Joe DiMaggio Attend The Seven Year Itch Premiere, 1955'
(Wednesday, June 1, 1955) — The Seven Year Itch, a romantic drama film about a married man whose wife is on vacation and falls for the blonde bombshell upstairs, premiered tonight at Loew’s State Theatre in New York City. Continue reading ‘The Seven Year Itch’ premieres in New York City 60 years ago tonight (June 1 1955)
Video: 'The Rolling Stones - Rare 1975 Footage'
(Sunday, June 1, 1975, 3:30 p.m. CDT) — The Rolling Stones began their first tour with guitarist Ron Wood (he was not officially named a Rolling Stone until Dec. 19, 1975) today at LSU Assembly Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
(Saturday, June 1, 1985) — “Axel F” by Harold Faltermeyer peaked at #3 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for three weeks.
(Saturday, June 1, 1985) — “Say You’re Wrong” by Julian Lennon peaked at #21 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks.
Video: 'Summer Means New Love (Stereo)'
(Tuesday, June 1, 1965) — The Beach Boys completed the recording of “Summer Means New Love” today at CBS Columbia Square in Hollywood for the group’s album Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!).
Video: 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'
(Tuesday, June 1, 1915) — The T.S. Eliot poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was first published today in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse in Chicago, heralding a paradigmatic cultural shift from late 19th-century Romantic verse and Georgian lyrics to Modernism.
Video: 'Peter Jennings - Hiroshima: Why the Bomb was Dropped (1995)' (June 1, 1945, at 41:04)
(Friday, June 1, 1945, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m./1:45 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EWT; during World War II) — The Interim Committee met again secretly today at the Pentagon, formally deciding that the atomic bomb “should be used against Japan as soon as possible; that it be used on a war plant surrounded by workers’ homes; and that it be used without prior warning.”
Member James F. Byrnes then went to the White House and briefed President Harry S. Truman of the decision (click here for a clip of “American Experience: Truman” from this day (at 1:47:08).
