Monthly Archives: June 2016

‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Music’ album by The Beatles debuts at #8 in USA 40 years ago today (June 26 1976)

1970s, Popular Music 1970s, The Beatles 1970s

(Saturday, June 26, 1976) — “Rock ‘n’ Roll Music,” a compilation album by The Beatles that consisted of previously released Beatles tracks, debuted at #8 on today’s Billboard 200 albums chart. Continue reading ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll Music’ album by The Beatles debuts at #8 in USA 40 years ago today (June 26 1976) →

The Beatles perform in Hamburg, West Germany 50 years ago #OTD this hour (June 26 1966)

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


Video: 'The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany in 1966'

(Sunday, June 26, 1966, 4:27 p.m. CEST) — The Beatles performed the first of two shows at Ernst Merck Halle in Hamburg, West Germany, this afternoon, on the third stop of the band’s Summer 1966 Germany Mini-Tour (click here to watch ‘Beatles at Hamburg 1966’ video). Continue reading The Beatles perform in Hamburg, West Germany 50 years ago #OTD this hour (June 26 1966) →

Millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw murders architect Stanford White 110 years ago this hour (June 25 1906)

1900s


Videos: 'The Crime of the Century'

(Monday, June 25, 1906, 11:05 p.m. local time) — Architect Stanford White was shot to death tonight atop New York’s (second) Madison Square Garden, which he had designed, by millionaire Harry K. Thaw, who was apparently enraged over what he viewed as White’s defilement of his wife, Evelyn Nesbit (when Nesbit was a teenager) just as the first performance of the musical comedy Mam’zelle Champagne was drawing to a close. Continue reading Millionaire Harry Kendall Thaw murders architect Stanford White 110 years ago this hour (June 25 1906) →

‘Independence Day’ premieres in Los Angeles 20 years ago today (June 25 1996)

1990s, movies 1990s


Video: 'Independence Day' trailer

(Tuesday, June 25, 1996) — Independence Day, an epic science fiction disaster film about an alien attack on Earth, had its world premiere today at Mann Village Theater in Westwood, California.

Directed by Roland Emmerich, the film starred Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd HirschMargaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, James Rebhorn and Harvey Fierstein.

The Monkees hold second recording session 50 years ago this hour (June 25 1966)

1960s, Popular Music 1960s, The Monkees


Video: 'I Don't Think You Know Me (2006 Remastered Version - Mike's Vocal)'

(Friday, June 25, 1966, 7:30 p.m.-12:15 a.m. PDT) — 15 days after the first official Monkees recording session, produced by Snuff Garret with no finished results (the tape of those sessions were lost), the made-for-TV band (with member Michael Nesmith producing) held its second recording session tonight at RCA Victor Studios in Hollywood, completing “I Don’t Think You Know Me” (with Michael Nesmith on lead vocals).

19 U.S. troops die in truck bombing at big Saudi Arabia base 20 years ago this hour (June 25 1996)

1990s


Video: 'Khobar Towers Bombing - The Bomb Was Bigger Than Expected'

(Tuesday, June 25, 1996, 9:50 p.m. AST) — A truck bomb ripped through an apartment complex housing Air Force pilots and other American military personnel near the eastern Saudi Arabian city of Dhahran today, killing 19 Americans, wounding 498 people and raising new concern about the stability of the vast Saudi desert kingdom.

Custer makes last stand at Little Bighorn 140 years ago today (June 25 1876)

1870s


Video: 'Custer's Last Stand Documentary on the Life and Death of General Custer Full Documentary' (June 25, 1876, at 1:26:08)

(Sunday, June 25, 1876; during the Great Sioux War of 1876) — Lt. Col. Colonel George A. Custer and his 7th Cavalry were wiped out today by Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians led by Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana.