Video: 'The Doors - Live @ L'Olympia Theatre'
(Monday, May 1, 1972) — Nine months and 28 days after lead singer Jim Morrison was found dead in a bathtub in Paris, the surviving members of the American rock group The Doors — keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore — returned to the ‘City of Light’ to perform tonight at the Olympia. Continue reading The Doors perform at the Olympia in Paris 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (May 1 1972)
Video: 'The battle for Quang Tri Vietnam April 1972: from the archive'
(Monday, May 1, 1972, afternoon local time; in the First Battle of Quang Tri, during the Easter Offensive, part of the Vietnam War, the Cold War and the Indochina Wars) — The South Vietnamese abandoned Quang Tri, their northernmost province capital, today, giving the advancing North Vietnamese their biggest prize so far in their month-old Easter Offensive invasion. Continue reading North Vietnamese Army captures South Vietnamese province and city of Quang Tri 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (May 1 1972)
