Video: 'Almanac: When Nixon met Elvis'
(Monday, December 21, 1970, 12:45-1:00 p.m. EST) — Rock music icon Elvis Presley, 35, engineered a meeting with U.S. President Richard Nixon today at the White House, where he expressed his patriotism and explained how he believed he could reach out to hippies to help combat the drug culture that he and the president abhorred.
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Video: '21st December 1620: The first Mayflower Pilgrims land at Plymouth to establish the Plymouth Colony'
(Thursday, December 21, 1620) — The first of the Mayflower Pilgrims landed today at Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established the Plymouth Colony.
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(Saturday, December 20, 1980) — “Hit Me with Your Best Shot” by Pat Benatar peaked at #9 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for three weeks.
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Video: '20th December 1860: South Carolina secedes from the United States of America'
(Thursday, December 20, 1860, 1:15 p.m. local time; six weeks after the 1860 United States presidential election) — 44 days after Abraham Lincoln’s victory in the presidential election of 1860 on a platform opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union today as all 169 delegates to a special convention in Charleston voted in favor of separation.
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Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - America's Mandarin [2/11]' (NLF formed at 20:18)
(Tuesday, December 20, 1960; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — The National Liberation Front (NLF) was created today as an armed communist political revolutionary organization in South Vietnam and Cambodia to oppose the government of President Ngo Dinh Diem, who gave the group the nickname “Viet Cong.”
Continue reading ‘Viet Cong’ formed to oppose South Vietnamese government of President Ngo Dinh Diem 60 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 20 1960)
Video: 'All Things Must Pass (Full Album)' (23 videos)
(Saturday, December 19, 1970) — All Things Must Pass, the third solo studio album by George Harrison and his first since the public break-up of The Beatles, debuted at #5 on today’s Billboard Top LP’s chart.
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(Saturday, December 19, 1970) — “Stoned Love” by The Supremes (featuring new lead singer Jean Terrell) peaked at #7 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks.
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Video: 'The Doors 13'
(Saturday, December 19, 1970) — 13, the first compilation album by the American rock band The Doors, debuted at #75 on today’s Billboard Top LP’s chart.
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Video: 'Carrier Ablaze (1960)'
(Monday, December 19, 1960, 10:30 a.m. EST; during the Cold War) — Fifty shipyard workers were killed and more than 300 were injured today when fire broke out on the hangar deck of the nearly completed aircraft carrier USS Constellation at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York City.
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(Saturday, December 18, 2010) — “Firework” by Katy Perry peaked at #1 on today’s Billboard‘s Hot 100 singles chart for four non-consecutive weeks (Dec. 18/25, 2010, Jan. 1/15, 2011).
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