Video: 'Pan American Clipper (Sikorsky S-42) 1935 Pan American Airway, aka Flying Clipper, Pan Am Clipper'
(Friday, November 21, 1935, 3:46 p.m. PST) — A flying boat, the China Clipper, took off today from Alameda, California, carrying more than 100,000 pieces of mail on the first trans-Pacific airmail flight.
Video: 'Elvis Presley: Good Rockin' Tonight (the 1955 album)'
(Monday, November 21, 1955) — RCA Records purchased the contract, singles and released masters of 20-year-old Elvis Presley today from Sam Phillips of Sun Records for an unprecedented sum of $40,000 ($35,000 to Sun and a $5,000 bonus to Presley).
Video: 'Jonathan Pollard: A Portrayal'
(Thursday, November 21, 1985, at about 11:00 a.m. EST; during the Cold War) — U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard, 31, was arrested today near the Israeli Embassy in Washington on espionage charges, accused of selling classified code information to the Israeli government.
Video: 'Nuremberg Day 2 Defendants Plead (translated captions)'
(Wednesday, November 21, 1945; during the Nuremberg trials) — One day after the trial of the major Nazi war criminals by the International Military Tribunal began in Nuremberg, Germany, the defendants entered their pleas of “not guilty.”
Hermann Göring tried to make a statement, but was prevented by the court from doing so. Continue reading Nazi war criminals enter ‘not guilty’ pleas at Nuremberg 70 years ago today (Nov 21 1945)
