Monthly Archives: January 2016

First United Nations Security Council session held in London 70 years ago this hour (Jan 17 1946)

1940s


Video: 'UN Security Council (1946)'

(Thursday, January 17, 1946, 3:10 p.m. GMT) — The United Nations Security Council (UNSC), charged with the maintenance of international peace and security as well as accepting new members to the United Nations and approving any changes to its United Nations Charter, held its first session today at Church House, Westminster, in London, England. Continue reading First United Nations Security Council session held in London 70 years ago this hour (Jan 17 1946) →

U.S. B-52 carrying four unarmed hydrogen bombs crashes on Spanish coast 50 years ago this hour (Jan 17 1966)

1960s, Cold War

(Monday, January 17, 1966, at about 10:30 a.m. UTC; during the Cold War) — A U.S. Air Force B-52 carrying four unarmed hydrogen bombs crashed today near the Spanish coastal town of Palomares after colliding with a jet tanker.

Fortunately, no nuclear explosion was triggered, but all four of the men on board the tanker were killed, and only four of the seven men on the B-52 were able to parachute to safety.

Three of the bombs were quickly recovered, but the fourth wasn’t recovered until April 1966.

Moore gets life in prison for Ford assassination attempt 40 years ago today (Jan 15 1976)

1970s, U.S. Presidents


Video: 'Gerald Ford - Assassination Attempts (02)' (Sept. 22, 1975, at 1:08)

(Thursday, January 15, 1976) — Sara Jane Moore was sentenced today to life in prison by a Federal district judge who said that she would not have tried to kill U.S. President Gerald Ford in San Francisco on Sept. 22, 1975, “if we had in this country any effective capital punishment law.”

Moore was released on the last day of 2007.

Former First Lady Eliza McCardle Johnson dies 140 years ago today (Jan 15 1876)

1870s, U.S. Presidents


Video: 'First Ladies Preview: Eliza Johnson'

(Saturday, January 15, 1876) — Former U.S. First Lady Eliza McCardle Johnson, who served with her husband, President Andrew Johnson, from 1865 to 1869, died today in Greeneville, Tennessee, from complications due to tuberculosis at age 65, having survived her husband by only five and a half months.

‘Anna/I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party’ episode airs on ‘The Beatles’ cartoon series 50 years ago this hour (Jan 15 1966)

1960s, Popular Music 1960s, Television 1960s, The Beatles 1960s


Video: 'The Beatles Cartoon Episode 17'

(Saturday, January 15, 1966, 10:30 a.m. EST) — The Beatles are aboard a sightseeing ship, when Paul is lured from that ship onto a ghost ship, and later, John takes the Beatles sight-seeing at a New York museum on this morning’s episode of The Beatles, a weekly cartoon television series on ABC.

Actress Donna Reed, 64, dies in Beverly Hills 30 years ago today (Jan 14 1986)

1980s, Movies 1980s, Television 1980s


Video: 'Donna Reed Bio'

(Tuesday, January 14, 1986) — Donna Reed (born Donna Belle Mullenger), the Academy Award-winning actress who starred in more than 40 movies and portrayed the quintessential mother and wife of middle America on television’s Donna Reed Show in the 1950’s and 60’s, died of pancreatic cancer today at her home in Beverly Hills, Calif. She was 64 years old. Continue reading Actress Donna Reed, 64, dies in Beverly Hills 30 years ago today (Jan 14 1986) →