Video: 'Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm (Live At Newport Folk Festival - 1965) - 4K Restoration'
(Sunday, July 25, 1965, approximately 9:15 p.m. EDT) — Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan drew boos from some spectators tonight at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island as he went electric, performing a rock-and-roll set publicly for the very first time. Continue reading Bob Dylan goes electric, booed off stage at Newport Folk Festival 60 years ago tonight (July 25 1965)
Video: 'A CHORUS LINE '76 Tony Awards'
(Friday, July 25, 1975, scheduled for 8:00 p.m. EDT) — The musical A Chorus Line opened tonight on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre at 225 West 44th Street in the Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York, New York, beginning a run of 6,137 performances. Continue reading ‘A Chorus Line’ musical opens on Broadway 50 years ago this hour (July 25 1975)
Video: 'Peter Jennings - Hiroshima: Why the Bomb was Dropped (1995)' (July 25, 1945, at 54:18)
(Wednesday, July 25, 1945, 5:15-7:30 p.m. CEST; during World War II) — U.S. President Harry S. Truman today gave control of the atomic bombs to the military, which ordered that they be used as soon as the Potsdam Conference was over (click here for a clip of this event from “American Experience: Truman” at 2:06:32). Continue reading President Truman orders atomic bombs be dropped on Japan 80 years ago this hour (July 25 1945)
Video: '1985 - Rock Hudson "Mystery Illness'
(Thursday, July 25, 1985) — A spokeswoman for actor Rock Hudson, whose recent frail appearance stunned a public that retains an image of him as a tall, dark and handsomely squared-jawed romantic screen hero, confirmed today that he was hospitalized in Paris suffering from AIDS.
