Video: 'Royal death announcements + National Anthem - BBC'
(Monday, January 20, 1936, at 11:55 p.m. GMT) — Britain’s King George V, 70, died tonight in his bedroom at Sandringham House in Norfolk after his physician, Lord Dawson of Penn, injected the mortally ill monarch with morphine and cocaine to hasten his death. Continue reading Britain’s King George V, 70, dies at Sandringham House in Norfolk 90 years ago this hour (Jan 20 1936)
Video: '20th January 1986: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day first observed as a federal holiday'
(Monday, January 20, 1986) — Singing the ballads of the civil rights movement, thousands of people marched slowly through Atlanta today as the nation marked the first Federal holiday honoring the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Continue reading U.S. observes first federal holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. 40 years ago today (Jan 20 1986)
