Video: 'The Other Side of Suez (BBC Documentary)' (Nov. 5, 1956, at 39:41)
(Monday, November 5, 1956; during the Suez Crisis) — Britain and France started landing forces in Egypt today during fighting between Egyptian and Israeli forces around the Suez Canal. Continue reading British-French commandos land in Egypt 60 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Nov 5 1956)
Video: 'Hungarian Revolt 1956' (Nov. 4, 1956, at 6:39)
(Sunday, November 4, 1956, during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956) — Soviet troops entered Hungary today to end the Hungarian revolution against the Soviet Union that had started on October 23. Continue reading Soviet troops move in to crush the Hungarian Revolution 60 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Nov 4 1956)
Video: 'The Other Side of Suez (BBC Documentary)' (Oct. 29, 1956, at 36:04)
(Monday, October 29, 1956, at about 3:00 p.m. EET; during the Suez Crisis) — Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula today and pushed Egyptian forces back toward the Suez Canal. Continue reading Israel invades Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 29 1956)
Video: 'Selected Originals - Hungarian Revolution (1956)'
(Tuesday, October 23, 1956, afternoon CET) — The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, a nationwide revolt against the government of the Hungarian People’s Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, began today as a student demonstration in Budapest. Continue reading Student-sparked revolt against Hungary’s Communist rule begins 60 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 23 1956)
Video: 'G15108605'
(Sunday, October 5, 1986, afternoon CST) — In an incident that helped expose the Iran-Contra affair, a plane secretly ferrying supplies to Nicaraguan Contra rebels was shot down over southern Nicaragua today by Sandinista forces. Continue reading Plane shot down over southern Nicaragua, exposing Iran–Contra affair 30 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 5 1986)
Video: '9/9/76: Chairman Mao Zedong Dies'
(Thursday, September 9, 1976, 12:10 a.m. China Standard Time) — Mao Zedong, the pre-eminent figure of the Chinese Communist revolution and the leader of his country since 1949, died today in Beijing four days after suffering third heart attack since May 1976. Chairman Mao was 82. Continue reading China’s Chairman Mao, 82, dies in Beijing 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Sep 9 1976)
Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 11' (Mar. 30, 1975, at 31:50)
(Easter Sunday, March 30, 1975; during the The Hue–Da Nang Campaign of the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — A speedy North Vietnamese force moved into chaotic Da Nang today, sweeping across the vast air base where the first U.S. ground forces had landed in 1965.
Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - LBJ Goes to War [3/11]' (Mar. 30, 1965, at 32:41)
(Tuesday, March 30, 1965, 10:55 a.m. ICT; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — A huge bomb exploded at the United States Embassy today in Saigon, South Vietnam, killing two Americans, one female CIA employee, Barbara Robbins and another American, as well as 19 Vietnamese and one Filipino serving in the U.S. Navy along with injuring 183 others.
Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 11' (Mar. 29, 1975, at 30:24)
(Saturday, March 29, 1975; during the The Hue–Da Nang Campaign of the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — Against official American advice, a World Airways jet with company president Ed Daley aboard made a perilous landing today at Da Nang for one last rescue mission.
Daley wanted to save women and children first, but desperate South Vietnamese soldiers jammed into the airplane. They scrambled into the baggage compartment and clung to the stairway as the plane took off.
Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 11' (Mar. 21, 1975, at 29:21)
(Friday, March 21, 1975; during the The Hue–Da Nang Campaign of the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and Cold War) — 100,000 refugees, many of them troops and their families, had crowded into Da Nang by today as South Vietnam’s collapse intensified.
