(Thursday, June 27, 1974; during the Watergate scandal) — U.S. President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev vowed to seek lasting world peace as their week of summit talks began today in Moscow in an atmosphere of flag-waving, laughing conviviality.
It was Nixon’s second visit to Moscow as president (the first, in May 1972, was a first for a sitting U.S. president) (click here for video at 2:35:53).
Video: 'Civil War: Battle at Kennesaw Mountain'
(Monday, June 27, 1864, 8:00-10:45 a.m.local time; during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War) — Confederate forces repelled a frontal assault by Union troops today in the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in Cobb County, Georgia.
Video: 'Rolling Stones - It's All Over Now (stereo)'
(Friday, June 26, 1964) — “It’s All Over Now,” the first song to reach number one in Britain by The Rolling Stones, was released today.
Video: 'The World At War: Morning 5/5' (June 19-26, 1944, at 0:00)
(Monday, June 26, 1944; during the Battle of Cherbourg on the Western Front of World War II) — Most of Cherbourg, except the port, was occupied today by U.S. 7th Corps (part of U.S. 1st Army). The fortified port, which was considered vital to the campaign in Western Europe, surrendered on June 29, 1944.
Video: 'FDR: The Fighting President (Part lll)' (June 26, 1924, at 2:59)
(Thursday, June 26, 1924) — Franklin D. Roosevelt re-entered the public arena today, moving to the podium at the Democratic National Convention in New York City, assisted only by his two crutches, to nominate New York Governor Al Smith for president.
Three years before the convention, Roosevelt contracted polio, a disease which left him paralyzed from the waist down (click here for more video of this event at 1:14:25).
(Wednesday, June 26, 1844) — U.S. President John Tyler, a 54-year-old widower, married Julia Gardiner, 24, today at the Church of the Ascension in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. Gardiner became the 11th (and the youngest up to that time) First Lady of the United States.
(Wednesday, June 26, 1974, 8:01 a.m. EDT) — The supermarket price scanner made its debut this morning in Troy, Ohio, as a 10-pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit chewing gum costing 67 cents and bearing a Uniform Product Code (UPC) was scanned by Marsh Supermarket cashier Sharon Buchanan for customer Clyde Dawson.
The barcoded package of gum, never chewed, is on display at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
(Wednesday, June 24, 1964) — AT&T inaugurated commercial “Picturephone” service between New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C., today as First Lady Lady Bird Johnson called Dr. Elizabeth A. Wood of Bell Laboratories in New York.
Requiring the use of video booths, with a 3-minute call from Washington to New York costing $16, and a $27 charge for a 3-minute call between New York and Chicago, Picturephone never caught on.
Video: 'Forrest Gump' trailer
(Thursday, June 23, 1994) — Forrest Gump, an epic romantic comedy-drama film about a simple yet kindhearted soul and his serendipitous brushes with greatness, premiered today in Los Angeles, California.
Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the film starred Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson and Sally Field.
Video: 'A Shot in the Dark' (trailer)
(Tuesday, June 23, 1964) — A Shot in the Dark, the second installment in The Pink Panther series featuring Inspector Jacques Clouseau of the French Sûreté, was released today in U.S. theaters, including the Astor and the Trans-Lux East in New York City. Continue reading ‘A Shot in the Dark’ released in U.S. 50 years ago today (June 23 1964)
