Monthly Archives: September 2021

‘Smiling Faces Sometimes’ by The Undisputed Truth peaks at #3 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 4 1971)

1970s, Popular Music 1970s

(Saturday, September 4, 1971) — “Smiling Faces Sometimes” by The Undisputed Truth peaked at #3 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for the first of two weeks. Continue reading ‘Smiling Faces Sometimes’ by The Undisputed Truth peaks at #3 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 4 1971) →

‘Riders On The Storm’ by The Doors peaks at #14 in USA 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 4 1971)

1970s, Popular Music 1970s, The Doors


Video: 'Riders on the Storm (2017 Remaster)'

(Saturday, September 4, 1971) — “Riders on the Storm” by American rock band the Doors peaked at #14 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week, exactly nine weeks after the death of lead singer Jim Morrison in Paris.
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German submarine fires on destroyer USS Greer off Iceland in first Nazi attack against an American ship 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 4 1941)

1940s, U.S. Presidents, World War II

Video: 'The World at War: On Our Way: U.S.A. - 1939-1942 (7 of 26)' (Greer Incident at 13:34)'

(Thursday, September 4, 1941, 12:45 p.m. UTC; during the Battle of the Atlantic, part of World War II) — The USS Greer, a Wickes-class destroyer in the United States Navy, became the first U.S. vessel fired on in World War II when a German submarine (later identified as U-652) aimed a few torpedoes at it today, sparking heightened tensions between Nazi Germany and the United States, three months before America officially entered World War II. Continue reading German submarine fires on destroyer USS Greer off Iceland in first Nazi attack against an American ship 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 4 1941) →

White House ‘Plumbers’ break into office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 3 1971)

1970s, U.S. Presidents, Watergate


Video: 'WATERGATE AFFAIR BBC DOKUMENTATION 1994' (Sept. 3, 1971, at 23:52)

(Friday, September 3, 1971, approximately 11:00 p.m. PDT; during the Watergate scandal and the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — Under the authorization of U.S. presidential adviser John Ehrlichman, the Beverly Hills, California, office of Lewis Fielding, a psychiatrist treating Daniel Ellsberg (who had leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press, exposing systematic lies to the nation about U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War), was broken into late tonight by a team of burglars. Continue reading White House ‘Plumbers’ break into office of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 3 1971) →

Nazis order Jewish Germans to wear yellow badge when in public 80 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 1 1941)

1940s, The Holocaust, World War II


Video: 'Key Historical Concepts in Holocaust Education: The Jewish Badge'

(Monday, September 1, 1941, during The Holocaust, part of World War II) — The requirement to wear the yellow badges with the word Jude (German for Jew) inscribed in letters meant to resemble Hebrew writing was extended today to all Jews over the age of six in the Reich and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (by a decree issued today signed by Reinhard Heydrich, a high-ranking German SS and police official during the Nazi era and a principal architect of the Holocaust), effective Sept. 19, 1941. Continue reading Nazis order Jewish Germans to wear yellow badge when in public 80 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 1 1941) →