Video: 'Batman Begins' trailer
(Friday, June 10, 2005) — Batman Begins, a superhero film about a caped crusader who begins his war on crime to free the crime-ridden Gotham City from corruption that the Scarecrow and the League of Shadows have cast upon it, opened today in Russia.
Directed by Christopher Nolan, the film starred Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Katie Holmes and Gary Oldman.
Video: 'American Justice - Von Bülow : A Wealth of Evidence {Regal}' (June 10, 1985, at 41:20)
(Monday, June 10, 1985) — Socialite Claus von Bulow was acquitted by a jury today in Providence, Rhode Island, at his retrial on charges he’d tried to murder his heiress wife, Martha “Sunny” von Bulow.
Video: 'Love and Death' trailer
(Tuesday, June 10, 1975) — Love and Death, a satire film on Russian literature about a devout coward vows to assassinate Napoleon in the name of love, opened today at the Sutton and Paramount Theaters in New York City. Continue reading ‘Love and Death’ opens in New York City 40 years ago today (June 10 1975)
Video: 'Alcoholics Anonymous - Historical Retrospective'
(Monday, June 10, 1935; during the Great Depression) — Alcoholics Anonymous was founded today in Akron, Ohio, by Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith and William Griffith Wilson when Smith consumed his last drink (a beer to steady his hand for surgery).
Video: 'Tripoli War 1801 - 1805'
(Monday, June 10, 1805; during the First Barbary War) — The First Barbary War, the first of two Barbary Wars between the United States and the four North African states known collectively as the Barbary States to battle pirates seizing American merchant ships and holding the crews for ransom, ended today when Yusuf Karamanli, the best-known Pasha of the Karamanli dynasty of Tripolitania (in present-day Libya) signed a treaty ending hostilities.
Video: 'George Harrison - "Extra Texture (Read All About It)" [Full Album]'
(Monday, June 9, 1975) — Former Beatle George Harrison completed seven weeks of recordings for his sixth solo studio album Extra Texture (Read All About It) today at A&M Studios in Los Angeles with a 19-musician string ensemble overdub to “The Answer’s at the End.”
Video: 'Anne Frank Remembered' trailer
(Thursday, June 8, 1995, 9:00 p.m. EDT) — Anne Frank Remembered, a documentary film about the life of the diarist and Holocaust victim Anne Frank, premiered tonight on the Disney Channel.
Directed by Jon Blair, the film featured Kenneth Branagh and Glenn Close and won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1996.
Video: 'Andrew Jackson - Good Evil & The Presidency - PBS Documentary'
(Tuesday, June 8, 1845, 6:00 p.m. local time) — Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States (1829-1837), died today at The Hermitage, his plantation in Nashville, Tennessee, of chronic tuberculosis, dropsy, and heart failure. He was 78.
(Saturday, June 8, 1985) — “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” by Tears for Fears peaked at #1 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two consecutive weeks (June 8/15, 1985).
(Saturday, June 8, 1985) — “Fresh” by Kool & the Gang peaked at #9 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week.
