Video: 'A Chorus Line 1976 Tony Awards'
(Friday, July 25, 1975, 8:00 p.m. EDT) — The musical A Chorus Line opened tonight
on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre in New York, beginning a run of 6,137 performances. Continue reading ‘A Chorus Line’ opens on Broadway 40 years ago this hour (July 25 1975)
Video: 'Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival'
(Sunday, July 25, 1965, evening EDT) — Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan drew boos from some spectators tonight at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island as he went electric, performing a rock-and-roll set publicly for the very first time.
Video: 'Peter Jennings - Hiroshima: Why the Bomb was Dropped (1995)' (July 25, 1945, at 54:18)
(Wednesday, July 25, 1945, 5:15-7:30 p.m. CEST; during World War II) — U.S. President Harry S. Truman today gave control of the atomic bombs to the military, which ordered that they be used as soon as the Potsdam Conference was over (click here for a clip of this event from “American Experience: Truman” at 2:07:28).
Video: '1985 - Rock Hudson "Mystery Illness'
(Thursday, July 25, 1985) — A spokeswoman for actor Rock Hudson, whose recent frail appearance stunned a public that retains an image of him as a tall, dark and handsomely squared-jawed romantic screen hero, confirmed today that he was hospitalized in Paris suffering from AIDS.
