Video: '42nd Street Trailer (1933)'
(Thursday, March 9, 1933) — 42nd Street, a musical film about a producer who puts on what may be his last Broadway show, and at the last moment a chorus girl has to replace the star, premiered today in New York City.
Directed by Lloyd Bacon and Busby Berkeley, the film starred Warner Baxter, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers.
Video: 'HD Stock Footage Franklin D. Roosevelt - Bank Holiday - Repeals Prohibition (Mar. 9, 1933, at 1:13)
(Thursday, March 9, 1933; during the Great Depression) — Congress, called into special session by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, today began its “hundred days” of enacting New Deal legislation.
Video: 'Richard Nixon plays his Piano Concerto #1'
(Friday, March 8, 1963, 10 p.m. EST) — Former Vice President Richard Nixon appeared on tonight’s edition of The Jack Paar Program, performing one of his musical compositions on the piano.
Video: 'An American Family: Divorce'
(Thursday, March 8, 1973, 9:00 p.m. EST) — The first family of reality TV learned the hard lesson of transferring their lives from real to reel when Mrs. Loud asked for a divorce on tonight’s episode of An American Family.
TV Guide and TV Land ranked this episode #71 out the “100 Most Memorable TV Moments of All Time” in 2004.
Video: 'President Ronald Reagan - "Evil Empire" Speech'
(Tuesday, March 8, 1983) — In a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals convention today in Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Ronald Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as an “evil empire.”
Video: 'Pan Am Building'
(Thursday, March 7, 1963) — The Pan Am Building, a skyscraper located at 200 Park Avenue at East 45th Street above Grand Central Terminal in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, first opened today as headquarters of Pan American World Airways.
Video: 'The Attempted Assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt'
(Monday, March 6, 1933, 6:57 a.m. local time) — Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, wounded in the February 15, 1933, attempt on then-President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt’s life the previous month, died today at a Miami hospital at age 59, two days after FDR took office.
Gunman Giuseppe Zangara pleaded guilty to Cermak’s murder and was put to death in the electric chair just two weeks later on March 20, 1933.
Video: '1942 Oscar Winners'
(Thursday, March 4, 1943) — Mrs. Miniver won six Oscars tonight at the 15th Academy Awards, including Outstanding Motion Picture, Best Director for William Wyler and Best Actress for Greer Garson, whose 5 1/2-minute acceptance speech became the butt of industry jokes.
James Cagney won Best Actor for Yankee Doodle Dandy. The ceremonies were held in the Cocoanut Grove of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles (click here to watch a newsreel from tonight’s ceremony).
Video: '15th Grammy Awards 72' (6 videos)
(Saturday, March 3, 1973, 9:00 p.m. CST) — Robert Flack won the top two awards at the 15th Grammy Awards at Tennessee Theater in Nashville tonight, including Song of the Year (Ewan MacColl, songwriter) and Record of the Year (Joel Dorn, producer) for her ballad “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.” Continue reading Roberta Flack wins top Grammy awards 40 years ago this hour (1973)
Video: '1923 - TIME Magazine'
(Saturday, March 3, 1923) — Time magazine, a weekly news magazine published in New York City and founded by Briton Hadden and Henry R. Luce, made its debut today.
