Video: 'Mimi and Richard Farina Bold Marauder'
(Saturday, April 30, 1966, evening PDT) — American folksinger and novelist Richard Fariña, 29, was killed in a motorcycle accident today in Carmel Valley Village, California, after a book-signing party for his first novel, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me.
Video: 'Vice President Alben W. Barkley's Last Words'
(Monday, April 30, 1956, 5:15 p.m. EST) — Alben W. Barkley, the 35th Vice President of the United States (1949-1953, under President Harry S. Truman), died today of a heart attack today while addressing a student political convention at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. He was 78 (click here to watch Barkley’s final speech and the ambulance that took him away for treatment).
Video: 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio'
(Wednesday, April 30, 1986) — Members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation voted today in New York to build the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland.
(Saturday, April 30, 1966) — “Good Lovin'” by The Young Rascals peaked at #1 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week.
Video: 'Bruce Springsteen Breaks Into Elvis' Graceland Home - Apr 29 - Today In Music'
(Friday, April 30, 1976, 3:00 a.m. CDT) — While in Memphis on tour, singer Bruce Springsteen paid a visit to Elvis Presley’s Graceland home this morning, climbing over the wall and running to the front door. Continue reading Bruce Springsteen jumps fence at Graceland 40 years ago this hour (Apr 30 1976)
Video: 'TV Land Debut, April 29, 1996'
(Monday, April 29, 1996, afternoon MST) — TV Land, an American basic cable and satellite television channel, launched today as a 24-hour offshoot of Nickelodeon’s successful nighttime classic television block Nick at Nite.
Video: 'The Beatles - I'm Only Sleeping [Rehearsal] (Anthology 2 Disc 1)'
(Friday, April 29, 1966, 5:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. BST) — The English rock band The Beatles continued production of their seventh studio album Revolver this afternoon at EMI Studio 3 in London, as they attempted to remake John Lennon’s “I’m Only Sleeping.” Continue reading The Beatles attempt remake of ‘I’m Only Sleeping’ 50 years ago this hour (Apr 29 1966)
Video: 'Japanese war criminals go on trial in Tokyo Newsreel PublicDomainFootage.com'
(Monday, April 29, 1946, during the International Military Tribunal for the Far East) — Former Japanese Prime Ministers Hideki Tojo (1941–44), Kiichiro Hiranuma (1939), Koki Hirota (1936–37) and Kuniaki Koiso (1944–45), and 24 co-defendants were indicted today in Tokyo for war crimes, ranging from the murder of thousands of Americans at Pearl Harbor, to conspiracy “to secure military, naval, political and economic domination of the whole world.”
All of the surviving members of Tojo’s cabinet members were included in the 55 count indictment.
Video: 'Real archival footage from 1916 Easter Rising, Dublin'
(Saturday, April 29, 1916) — The Easter Rising armed insurrection in Dublin to push for an end to British rule in Ireland and establish an independent Irish Republic collapsed today as Irish nationalists surrendered to British authorities.
(Saturday, April 28, 1956) — “Blue Suede Shoes” by Elvis Presley (written and originally recorded by Carl Perkins) peaked at #20 on today’s Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart for one week.
