Video: 'Three Colors: Red' trailer
(Thursday, May 12, 1994) — Three Colors: Red, the final film of The Three Colors Trilogy which examines the French Revolutionary ideals, premiered today at the Cannes Film Festival.
Directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski, the film starred Irène Jacob and Jean-Louis Trintignant.
Video: 'The battle at Bloody Angle 1864'
(Thursday, May 12, 1864; during the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, part of the Overland Campaign of the American Civil War) — Attacks today by Maj. Gen. Horatio G. Wright on the western edge of the Mule Shoe (a prominent salient) in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, which became known as the “Bloody Angle,” involved almost 24 hours of desperate hand-to-hand fighting, some of the most intense of the Civil War.
Video: 'Bobby Rydell on The Ed Sullivan Show - "World Without Love"'
(Sunday, May 10, 1964, 8 p.m. EDT) — Gerry and the Pacemakers and Bobby Rydell were among the performers on tonight’s edition of the CBS television variety show The Ed Sullivan Show, broadcast live from New York. Continue reading Gerry and the Pacemakers, Bobby Rydell appear on ‘Ed Sullivan’ 50 years ago this hour (May 10 1964)
Video: '37 Edgar Hoover' (May 10, 1924 at 26:40)
(Saturday, May 10, 1924) — U.S. Attorney General Harlan Stone appointed J. Edgar Hoover today was named the 6th Director of the Bureau of Investigation (later known as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI).
Video: 'The History Of Mothers Day'
(Saturday, May 9, 1914) — U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, acting on a joint congressional resolution, signed a proclamation today designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.
(Monday, May 8, 1944) — The first eye bank was founded today at New York Hospital in New York City by two physicians, Dr. Townley Paton and Dr. John MacLean.
Video: 'The Beach boys - All summer long (HQ)'
(Thursday, May 7, 1964) — The Beach Boys added vocals to the previous day’s tracking master of “All Summer Long” today at Western Records studio in Hollywood to complete the title track for the group’s album All Summer Long.
Video: 'Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle of the Wilderness' (May 7, 1864, at 34:17)
(Saturday, May 7, 1864; during the Overland Campaign of the American Civil War) — Following two days of intense fighting in the Battle of the Wilderness, the Army of the Potomac, under the command of Union General Ulysses S. Grant, moved south today.
Grant’s forces had clashed with Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia in a pitched and confused two-day battle in which neither side gained a clear victory.
Video: 'Agent Orange. American Chemical and Biological Warfare'
(Monday, May 7, 1984, 4:00 a.m. EDT) — A $180 million out-of-court settlement was reached today in the Agent Orange class-action suit brought by Vietnam veterans who charged they’d suffered injury from exposure to the defoliant.
Video: '1994 Inauguration of the Chunnel -- Linking France & England'
(Friday, May 6, 1994) — Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterrand today formally opened the Channel Tunnel between their countries in a ceremony held in Calais.
