Video: 'Queen Mary's Maiden Voyage'
(Wednesday, May 27, 1936, 4:30 p.m. BST) — With a quarter of a million people lining the shores to witness her departure, the Cunard liner RMS Queen Mary left England this afternoon on her maiden voyage to New York.
(Saturday, May 23, 1936) — “You” by Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra (vocal refrain by Edyth Wright, recorded in New York City on March 25, 1936) peaked at #1 on today’s Your Hit Parade weekly music chart for one week. Continue reading ‘You’ by Tommy Dorsey peaks at #1 in USA 90 years ago today (May 23 1936)
(Saturday, May 16, 1936) — “Melody from the Sky” by Jan Garber & his Orchestra (vocal by Lee Bennett; recorded in Chicago February 27, 1936) peaked at #1 on today’s Your Hit Parade weekly music chart for one week.
Video: 'Benito Mussolini - Roma: Discorso del 9 Maggio 1936 (Con Testo)'
(Saturday, May 9, 1936) — Italian Premier Benito Mussolini announced the annexation of Ethiopia tonight and proclaimed Italian East Africa in a triumphant speech from the balcony of the Palazzo Venezia.
Video: 'Italian Troops Enter Addis Ababa (1936)'
(Tuesday, May 5, 1936, 4:00 p.m. EAT; during the March of the Iron Will, part of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War) — Ethiopia’s era of independence, which had lasted since biblical times, ended this afternoon when the Italians occupied Addis Ababa.
Video: 'Sergei Prokofiev : Peter and the Wolf, a symphonic fairy tale for children Op. 67 (1936)'
(Saturday, May 2, 1936) — Peter and the Wolf, a symphonic tale for children by Sergei Prokofiev, had its world premiere today in Moscow.
(Saturday, April 25, 1936) — “Lost” by Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians (vocal refrain by Guy’s brother, Carmen Lombardo; recorded March 13, 1936, in New York City) peaked at #1 on today’s Your Hit Parade weekly music chart for four non-consecutive weeks (Apr. 25, May 2/29/30, 1936). Continue reading ‘Lost’ by Guy Lombardo peaks at #1 in USA 90 years ago today (Apr 25 1936)
Video: 'Mr. Deeds Goes to Town' trailer
(Thursday, April 9, 1936, 8:00 p.m. CST) — Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, a screwball comedy about a small-town poet who has to deal with the corruption of city life when he inherits a fortune, premiered tonight at the Malco theater in Memphis, Tennessee, to benefit Red Cross flood and tornado relief. Continue reading ‘Mr. Deeds Goes to Town’ premieres in Memphis 90 years ago this hour (Apr 9 1936)
Video: 'Murderer of Lindbergh Jr., Bruno Hauptmann executed in Trenton, New Jersey HD Stock Footage'
(Friday, April 3, 1936, 8:47:30 p.m. EST) — Silent to the end except for renewed declarations of his innocence, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, 36, was electrocuted tonight at the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton for the 1932 kidnap-murder of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. Continue reading Bruno Hauptmann executed for killing Lindbergh baby 90 years ago this hour (Apr 3 1936)
Video: 'Germany Rhineland - 1936 | Movietone Moment | 29 March 2024'
(Sunday, March 29, 1936) — German Chancellor Adolf Hitler claimed overwhelming victory today in a plebiscite on his policies with 98.79 per cent of the votes.
