Video: 'Herschel - The Boy Who Started World War 2'
(Monday, November 7, 1938, approximately 9:45 a.m. Western European Time) — German diplomat Ernst vom Rath was shot today at the German embassy in Paris by Herschel Grynszpan, 17, whose Jewish parents were among those recently deported from Germany to Poland. Continue reading Jewish teen shoots German diplomat in Paris 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Nov 7 1938)
Video: 'War Of The Worlds - Original 1938 Radio Broadcasts (2011 Remastered Version)'
(Halloween Eve, Sunday, October 30, 1938, 8:00-9:00 p.m. EST) — A wave of mass hysteria seized thousands of listeners throughout the nation tonight when a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells’s 1898 novel “The War of the Worlds” led people to believe that an interplanetary conflict had started with invading Martians spreading widespread death and destruction in New Jersey and New York. Continue reading ‘War of the Worlds’ radio broadcast causes panic 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 30 1938)
Video: 'Nylon: First Synthetic Fiber - Decades TV Network'
(Thursday, October 27, 1938) — Du Pont announced today its new synthetic yarn would be called “nylon” at the final session of the Herald Tribune‘s yearly “Forum on Current Problems” on the site of the approaching New York City world’s fair. Continue reading Du Pont names new synthetic yarn ‘nylon’ 80 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 27 1938)
Video: 'A Championship Legacy: 1938'
(Sunday, October 9, 1938, approximately 2:00 p.m.-4:11 p.m. EST) — The New York Yankees won the 1938 World Series today, beating the Chicago Cubs 8-3 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York, in the fourth and deciding game. Continue reading Yankees beat Cubs to win World Series 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 9 1938)
Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary) 01.A New Germany (1933–1939)' (German troops pour into Sudetenland at 38:29)
(Saturday, October 1, 1938, 2:00 p.m. CET) — Five gray-green columns of German troops poured across the Czechoslovak frontier this afternoon on a twenty-mile front, beginning the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia in accordance with the Munich Agreement. Continue reading German troops begin to occupy the Sudetenland 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 1 1938)
Video: 'Peace Four Power Conference (1938)'
(Friday, September 30, 1938, 5:38 p.m. BST) — British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declared the Munich Agreement would bring “peace for our time” as he arrived home from Germany to a cheering crowd this afternoon at the Heston Aerodrome . Continue reading Chamberlain declares ‘peace for our time’ 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 30 1938)
Video: 'Munich Agreement Signed. Hitler, Mussolini, Chamberlain, Daladier (1938)'
(Friday, September 30, 1938, at about 1:30 a.m. CET) — German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Italian Premier Benito Mussolini and French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier signed the Munich Agreement early this morning at the Rheinhotel Dreesen in Bad Godesberg, Germany. Continue reading Britain, France appease Hitler, abandon ‘Sudetenland’ 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 30 1938)
Video: 'You Can't Take It with You' trailer
(Thursday, September 1, 1938, 11:15 a.m. EDT) — You Can’t Take It with You, an American romantic comedy film about a girl from a family of freethinkers who falls for the son of a conservative banker, premiered today at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Continue reading ‘You Can’t Take It with You’ premieres in New York City 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 1 1938)
Video: 'The Thousand Islands Bridge (1938)'
(Thursday, August 18, 1938, 3:00 p.m. EDT) — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King today dedicated the Thousand Islands Bridge over the Saint Lawrence River, connecting northern New York in the United States with southeastern Ontario in Canada. Continue reading Thousand Islands Bridge dedicated 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Aug 18 1938)
Video: 'The World At War Episode 6 HD - Banzai!: Japan (1931–1942)' (Battle of Lake Khasan at 12:42)
(Thursday, August 11, 1938, noon local time; part of the Soviet–Japanese border conflicts) — The Battle of Lake Khasan, an attempted military incursion by Manchukuo (Japanese) into the territory claimed by the Soviet Union, ended in today with a ceasefire. Continue reading Battle of Lake Khasan on Japanese-Soviet border ends 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Aug 11 1938)
