Video: 'Elvis Presley and Heartbreak Hotel & Elvis signs with RCA Records | Elvis Presley 1955'
(Monday, November 21, 1955) — RCA Records purchased the contract, singles and released masters of 20-year-old Elvis Presley today from Sam Phillips of Sun Records for an unprecedented sum of $40,000 ($35,000 to Sun and a $5,000 bonus to Presley).
Video: 'The Jonathan Pollard Spy Case, Explained | The New York Times'
(Thursday, November 21, 1985, at about 11:00 a.m. EST; during the Cold War) — U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard, 31, was arrested today near the Israeli Embassy in Washington on espionage charges, accused of selling classified code information to the Israeli government. Continue reading Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard arrested as spy 40 years ago this hour (Nov 21 1985)
Video: 'Nuremberg Day 2 Defendants Plead (translated captions)'
(Wednesday, November 21, 1945, morning Central European Time; during the Nuremberg trials) — One day after the trial of the major Nazi war criminals by the International Military Tribunal began in Nuremberg, Germany, the defendants entered their pleas of “not guilty.”
Hermann Göring tried to make a statement, but was prevented by the court from doing so. Continue reading Nazi war criminals enter ‘not guilty’ pleas at Nuremberg 80 years ago today (Nov 21 1945)
