Video: '1995 ALDS, Game 5: Yankees @ Mariners'
(Sunday, October 8, 1995, 8:26 p.m. PDT) — The Seattle Mariners won the 1995 American League Division Series tonight, beating the New York Yankees 6-5 at the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington, in the fifth and deciding game.
(Monday, October 8, 1945, 8:15 p.m. CST) — U.S. President Harry S. Truman declared this evening that the secrets of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada during a press conference in Tiptonville, Tennessee.
(Saturday, October 8, 1955) — “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” by The Four Aces was the #1 song on today’s Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart for two non-consecutive weeks (Oct. 8/22, 1955). Continue reading ‘Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing’ by The Four Aces peaks at #1 in USA 70 years ago today (Oct 8 1955)
Video: 'Leon Klinghoffer Terrorist Murder 1985'
(Tuesday, October 8, 1985, at about 3:00 p.m. Eastern European Summer Time) — The hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro today killed passenger Leon Klinghoffer, a retired, wheelchair-bound Jewish American businessman, shooting him in the forehead and chest, then forcing the ship’s barber and a waiter to throw his body and wheelchair overboard. Continue reading Achille Lauro hijackers kill Jewish American passenger, throw body overboard 40 years ago this hour (Oct 8 1985)
Video: 'PBS LBJ Part 2' (Oct. 8, 1965, at 51:02)
(Friday, October 8, 1965, 7:00-9:15 a.m. EDT) — U.S. President Lyndon Johnson underwent a successful operation today at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, during which surgeons removed his gall bladder and a ureteral stone.
