Video: 'Prop 13: Mad as Hell | Retro Report'
(Tuesday, June 6, 1978, polls closed at 8:00 p.m. PDT) — Californians fed up with soaring property taxes today overwhelmingly approved Proposition 13, an amendment of the state Constitution that trims $7 billion off the amount of property tax revenue collected by the state and radically affecting local government finances. Continue reading Californians cut property taxes in landslide 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 6 1978)
Video: '20/20 Pilot (ABC) June 1978'
(Tuesday, June 6, 1978, 10:00-11:00 p.m. EDT) — 20/20, an American television newsmagazine featuring in-depth story packages, created by ABC News executive Roone Arledge and hosted by Harold Hayes and Robert Hughes, debuted tonight ABC. Continue reading ’20/20′ news magazine debuts on ABC-TV 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 6 1978)
Video: 'Sex and the City Seazon 1 Episode 1'
(Saturday, June 6, 1998, 9:45 p.m. EDT) — Sex and the City, an American romantic comedy-drama television series about a sex columnist and her three friends who explore Manhattan’s dating scene, debuted tonight on HBO. Continue reading ‘Sex and the City’ TV series debuts 20 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 6 1998)
Video: 'June 6, 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy’s casket arrives at New York’s La Guardia Airport, New York'
(Thursday, June 6, 1968, 8:57 p.m. EDT) — A White House plane bearing the body of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Kennedy party arrived at LaGuardia Airport tonight from Los Angeles and transported to St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where he will lie in state. Continue reading Body of Robert F. Kennedy arrives in New York 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 6 1968)
Video: 'Bobby Kennedy's Body Leaves Los Angeles (1968)'
(Thursday, June 6, 1968, 1:28 p.m. PDT) — A plane bearing the body of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Kennedy party departed Los Angeles International Airport this afternoon for a flight to New York City where his body would lie in state at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Continue reading Body of Robert F. Kennedy departs Los Angeles 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 6 1968)
Video: 'Una Sensazionale Intervista Dei Beatles'
(Thursday, June 6, 1968, 8:00 p.m. BST) — During the second recording session for “Don’t Pass Me By” at EMI Studios in London, The Beatles (mostly a nonsensical John Lennon) were interviewed this evening by Kenny Everett for the June 9, 1968, edition of “The Kenny Everett Show” on BBC1 radio. Continue reading The Beatles interviewed for ‘Everett Show’ 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 6 1968)
(Saturday, May 23, 1998) — “The Boy Is Mine” by Brandy and Monica peaked at #1 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart for thirteen consecutive weeks (June 6/13/20/27, July 4/11/18/25, Aug. 1/8/15/22/29, 1998). Continue reading ‘The Boy Is Mine’ by Brandy and Monica peaks at #1 in USA 20 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 6 1998)
(Wednesday, June 6, 1888) — President Grover Cleveland of New York was renominated by acclamation today at the Democratic National Convention, meeting at the St. Louis Exposition and Music Hall. Continue reading Democrats renominate President Cleveland 130 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 6 1888)
Video: 'John Lennon Talks About 'In His Own Write' At The National Theatre In 1968'
(Thursday, June 6, 1968, 5:00-7:00 p.m. BST) — While The Beatles were elsewhere in the studio working on “Don’t Pass Me By,” John Lennon was interviewed today at EMI Studios in London about the stage adaptation of his book In His Own Write. Continue reading Lennon, Spinetti interviewed for ‘Release’ 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jun 6 1968)
Video: 'June 6, 1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson's Statement on the Death of Senator Robert F. Kennedy'
(Thursday, June 6, 1968, 11:55 a.m. EDT) — President Lyndon Johnson, responding to the death of Robert F. Kennedy early this morning, declared Sunday, June 9, 1968, to be a day of national mourning during a statement today in the Fish Room of the White House.
Kennedy, the younger brother of slain President John F. Kennedy, was shot and critically wounded June 5, 1968 at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles just after he made his victory speech California’s Democratic presidential primary.
Despite extensive neurosurgery to remove the bullet and bone fragments from his brain, Kennedy was pronounced dead nearly 26 hours after the shooting.
