Video: 'The Making of Sgt. Pepper' (part 1)
(Sunday, April 12, 1992) — Ex-Beatle George Harrison was interviewed today at producer George Martin’s house in the U.S. for the documentary about the making of The Beatles 1967 landmark rock music album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, titled The Making of Sgt. Pepper. Continue reading George Harrison interviewed for ‘Making of Sgt. Pepper’ documentary 20 years ago today (1992)
(Sunday, April 12, 1992) — Disneyland Paris opened today in Marne-La-Vallee, a new town in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France, amid controversy as French intellectuals bemoaned the invasion of American pop culture.
Video: 'Cape Fear' trailer
(Thursday, April 12, 1962) — Cape Fear, a film about an attorney whose family is stalked by a criminal he helped to send to jail, premiered today in the U.S.
Directed by J. Lee Thompson, the film stars Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen and Lori Martin.
Video: 'Grand Hotel' trailer
(Tuesday, April 12, 1932) — Grand Hotel , a film about guests at a posh Berlin hotel who struggle through scandal and heartache, premiered tonight at the Astor in New York. Continue reading ‘Grand Hotel ‘ premieres in New York 80 years ago today (1932)
(Thursday, April 11, 2002) — Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney is videotaped behind-the-scenes and in performance tonight at United Center in Chicago, the fourth stop of his 19-city Driving USA Tour.
(Wednesday, Apr. 11, 1962, 3:30 p.m. EST) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy bluntly denounced the major steel companies today for “a wholly unjustifiable and irresponsible defiance of the public interest” in raising their prices by $6 a ton. Continue reading Angry JFK rips steel leaders for price boost 50 years ago this hour (1962)
Video: India rejects dominion status offer (at :35)
(Saturday, April 11, 1942) — Dominant Hindu and Moslem (Muslim) parties today rejected Britain’s offer of dominion status after the war and Sir Stafford Cripps, special emissary of the British war cabinet, announced the proposal he had bought from London had been withdrawn.
Video: Fort Pulaski
(Friday, April 11, 1862, during the American Civil War) — The two-day Battle of Fort Pulaski on Cockspur Island, Georgia, near the mouth of the Savannah River, ended today as the fort fell to Union forces.
Video: April 11, 1862 (at 47:45)
(Friday, April 11, 1862, during the American Civil War) — U.S. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant was removed from field command today by Gen. Henry W. Halleck after the frightful losses (including nearly 3,500 deaths) in the victory of the Battle of Shiloh.
(Friday, April 11, 1862, during the American Civil War) — In a letter to his brother Charles Francis Adams Jr., in London, journalist, historian, academic and novelist Henry Brooks Adams wrote today: “Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.”
