Daily Archives: January 8, 2017

The Beatles’ Apple Corps settles with Allen Klein’s ABKCO 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 8 1977)

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

(Saturday, January 8, 1977; 11:15 a.m. EST) — John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr of The Beatles, represented by Apple Corps Ltd., settled a lawsuit today with Allen Klein’s ABKCO Industries Inc. filed in 1973 after the Beatles decided not to renew Klein’s management contract, agreeing to pay $5 million (ABKCO’s cost was $800,000). Continue reading The Beatles’ Apple Corps settles with Allen Klein’s ABKCO 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 8 1977) →

Americans launch Operation Cedar Falls to eradicate Vietnam’s ‘Iron Triangle’ 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 8 1967)

1960s, Cold War, Vietnam War


Video: '1983-Vietnam - A Television History - P.5 America Takes Charge (1965-1967)' (Operation Cedar Falls at 20:34-24:59)

(Sunday, January 8, 1967; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — Operation Cedar Falls began today as 30,000 American troops, the largest number of U.S. forces committed to battle in the Vietnam War up to that time, began to drive the Viet Cong out of the “Iron Triangle” region in South Vietnam’s Binh Duong Province. Continue reading Americans launch Operation Cedar Falls to eradicate Vietnam’s ‘Iron Triangle’ 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 8 1967) →

African-American men granted the right to vote in District of Columbia 150 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 8 1867)

1860s

(Tuesday, January 8, 1867; during the Reconstruction Era) — The U.S. House of Representatives joined the Senate today in overriding President Andrew Johnson’s veto of the District of Columbia Suffrage Bill, giving African-American men in the nation’s capital the right to vote.

It was the first law in U.S. history that extended the ballot to African-American men.