Video: 'The Beatles Cartoons Episode 18'
(Saturday, January 22, 1966, 10:30 a.m. EST) — Tired of hotel rooms, the Beatles purchase a RV trailer with all the comforts and later, Brian Epstein tells the Beatles that they are putting on entirely too much weight on this morning’s episode of The Beatles, a weekly cartoon television series on ABC.
(Saturday, January 21, 2006) — “Grillz” by Nelly featuring Paul Wall and Ali & Gipp was the #1 song on today’s Billboard‘s Hot 100 singles chart for two consecutive weeks (Jan. 21/28, 2006).
Video: 'CONCORDE INAUGURAL FLIGHT TO USA - COLOUR'
(Wednesday, January 21, 1976) — Two Concorde jets, taking off simultaneously from London (British Airways on the London–Bahrain route) and Paris (Air France on the Paris–Rio via Dakar route), today inaugurated the world’s first scheduled supersonic passenger services.
(Friday, January 21, 1966) — George Harrison, 22, of The Beatles married actress and model Patricia Anne “Pattie” Boyd, 21, today in a ceremony at a registry office in Ashley Road, Epsom.
With John Lennon and Ringo Starr out of town on vacation with their wives, Paul McCartney was the only other Beatle in the country and stood in as best man.
Harrison is the third Beatle to marry, leaving Paul McCartney the only bachelor of the British rock band.
Video: 'The Death Of His Majesty King George V (1936)'
(Monday, January 20, 1936, at 11:55 p.m. GMT) — Britain’s King George V, 70, died tonight in his bedroom at Sandringham House in Norfolk after his physician, Lord Dawson of Penn, injected the mortally ill monarch with morphine and cocaine to hasten his death.
The king was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward VIII, who would abdicate the throne 11 months later to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.
Video: 'Jan. 20, 1986: First MLK Day'
(Monday, January 20, 1986) — Singing the ballads of the civil rights movement, thousands of people marched slowly through Atlanta today as the nation marked the first Federal holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
In Atlanta, where Dr. King was born and where he is buried, and in cities across the country, church bells tolled, choirs sang and citizens paused to remember the slain civil rights leader, eulogized in speeches and services as the nation’s “drum major for justice and peace.”
Video: 'Gerald Ford-State of the Union Address (January 19, 1976)'
(Monday, January 19, 1976, 9:00 p.m. EST) — In his second State of the Union address, U.S. President Gerald Ford, declaring that “common sense” dictated a self-disciplined course at the outset of the third American century, called tonight on Congress to act with restraint in meeting the immediate needs and expectations of the nation (click here to watch the full address).
(January 19, 1976) — Promoter Bill Sargent offered The Beatles at least $30 million today to reunite for a concert in the U.S., six years after the English rock group (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) disbanded.
Sargent estimated that the reunion show could gross up to $300 million, but they refused.
Video: 'Let's Go Away For Awhile (The Stereo Mix) (1996 Digital Remaster)'
(Wednesday, January 19, 1966) — The Beach Boys completed “Let’s Go Away for Awhile,” an instrumental composed and produced by Brian Wilson, today at United Western Recorders studios in Hollywood, for release on the Pet Sounds album on May 16, 1966.
(Saturday, January 19, 1946) — “I Can’t Begin to Tell You” by Bing Crosby with Carmen Cavallaro at the piano was the #1 song on today’s Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart for one week.
