Video: '1956 Fats Domino - Blueberry Hill - Sullivan Show'
(Sunday, November 18, 1956, 8:00-9:00 p.m. EST) — Fats Domino performed “Blueberry Hill” tonight’s live edition of the CBS-TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show from CBS Studio No. 50 in New York City. Continue reading Fats Domino performs on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show’ 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Nov 18 1956)
Video: 'Paul Simon & Goerge Harrison - Here Comes The Sun'
(Thursday, November 18, 1976) — Former Beatle George Harrison, promoting the release of his album Thirty-Three and 1/3, taped an appearance for the Nov. 20, 1976, edition of NBC’s Saturday Night with Paul Simon today in Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center in New York City, performing “Here Comes The Sun” and “Homeward Bound” on acoustic guitars. Continue reading George Harrison tapes musical performance for ‘NBC’s Saturday Night’ 40 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Nov 18 1976)
Video: 'The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century (4of7): Slaughter' (Nov. 18, 1916, at 34:00)
(Saturday, November 18, 1916; during the Battle of the Somme, part of the Western Front of World War I) — The Battle of the Somme, a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British and French empires against the German Empire, ended today when German troops retired from the final large british attack at the Battle of the Ancre amid worsening weather. Continue reading British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off Battle of the Somme 100 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Nov 18 1916)
Video: '#21 Chester A Arthur'
(Thursday, November 18, 1886, 5:10 a.m. local time) — Chester A. Arthur, the 21st President of the United States (1881-1885), having succeeded James A. Garfield upon the latter’s assassination, died today at his home at 123 Lexington Avenue in New York City of a stroke. Arthur was 57. Continue reading Former U.S. President Chester A. Arthur dies in New York City 130 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Nov 18 1886)
Video: '? George Harrison Interview with Joe Siegel, Chasens, LA'
(Wednesday, November 17, 1976) — Former Beatle George Harrison, promoting the release of his album Thirty-Three and 1/3, was interviewed today by WABC-TV’s Joel Siegel at Chasen’s restaurant in West Hollywood, California, at a special dinner arranged by Warner Brothers to announce a worldwide distribution deal with his Dark Horse record company. Continue reading George Harrison interviewed by Joel Siegel in Los Angeles 40 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Nov 17 1976)
Video: 'American Justice E 102 The Sam Sheppard Story' (Sheppard's second trial at 29:08)
(Wednesday, November 16, 1966, 10:18 p.m. EST) — Dr. Sam Sheppard, 42, was acquitted tonight in his second trial of charges he had murdered his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954. Continue reading Jury acquits Dr. Sam, ending 12-year ordeal 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Nov 16 1966)
Video: 'Carrie' trailer
(Tuesday, November 16, 1976) — Carrie, an American supernatural horror film based on Stephen King’s 1974 epistolary novel of the same name about a young teenage girl who wreaks telekinetic vengeance on her high school tormentors and religious-nut mother, opened today at the Criterion and other theaters in the New York City metro area. Continue reading ‘Carrie’ opens in New York City 40 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Nov 16 1976)
Video: 'What's Up, Tiger Lily?' (trailer)
(Wednesday, November 16, 1966, 12:45 p.m. EST) — What’s Up, Tiger Lily?, the Japanese action film Key of Keys re-dubbed to change the plot to make it a comedy about a secret egg salad recipe, opened today at the 34th Street East Theater in New York City. Continue reading ‘What’s Up, Tiger Lily?’ opens in New York 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Nov 16 1966)
Video: 'Fort Washington, 1776'
(Saturday, November 16, 1776, 7:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. local time; during the American Revolutionary War and the American Revolution) — British and Hessian units today captured Fort Washington near the north end of Manhattan Island in New York in one of the worst Patriot defeats of the American Revolutionary War. Continue reading British capture Fort Washington from Patriots 240 years ago at this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Nov 16 1776)
Video: 'NBC's 60th Anniversary Celebration (1986)'
(Monday, November 15, 1926, 8:00 p.m. EST) — The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) radio network debuted tonight with a network of 24 stations (formed by Westinghouse, General Electric and RCA). Continue reading NBC debuts with a radio network of 24 stations 90 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Nov 15 1926)
