Video: 'President Kennedy's family reflects on his 100th birthday'

(Tuesday, May 29, 1917, 3:00 p.m. local time) — John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States (1961-1963), was born John Fitzgerald Kennedy today at 83 Beals Street in Brookline, Massachusetts, to businessman/politician Joseph Patrick “Joe” Kennedy and philanthropist/socialite Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy. Continue reading U.S. President John F. Kennedy born in Brookline, Massachusetts 100 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 29 1917) →

Video: 'The Golden Gate Bridge Opens - 1937 | Today in History | 27 May 16'

(Thursday, May 27, 1937, 6:00 a.m. PDT) — The Golden Gate Bridge, the longest suspension bridge main span in the world (until 1964) at 4,200 feet, linking San Francisco, California, to Marin County over the Golden Gate strait, was opened to pedestrian traffic today (vehicles began crossing the next day after President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed a button in Washington signaling that vehicular traffic could begin crossing the bridge). Continue reading San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge opens 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 27 1937) →

Video: 'President Jimmy Carter - University of Notre Dame Commencement'

(Sunday, May 22, 1977, 3:25 p.m. EDT) — In a commencement address delivered today at Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana, President Jimmy Carter reaffirmed his commitment to human rights as a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy and disparaged the “inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear” (click here to watch an extended clip of the address). Continue reading President Carter stresses commitment to human rights 40 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 22 1977) →

Video: 'PBS LBJ Part 1' (1937 campaign at 5:38)

(Saturday, May 11, 1937, 9:10 a.m. CDT) — One month after Lyndon B. Johnson, 28, was elected to Congress, his political hero, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, stopped today in Galveston, Texas, on his return from a fishing trip and posed with the new lawmaker and Governor James Allred. Continue reading FDR and LBJ meet in Galveston, Texas 80 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (May 11 1937) →

Video: 'Martin Van Buren & the Panic of 1837'

(Wednesday, May 10, 1837) — The Panic of 1837, a financial crisis in the United States that touched off a major recession that lasted until the mid-1840s, began today when banks in New York City suspended specie payments, meaning that they would no longer redeem commercial paper in specie at full face value. Continue reading Panic of 1837 financial crisis begins 180 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (May 10 1837) →

Video: 'Gary Hart campaign withdraw; Dan Rather, Geraldine Ferraro (May 8, 1987)'

(Friday, May 8, 1987, scheduled for 10:00 a.m. MDT) — Senator Gary Hart of Colorado, the front-runner for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination, dropped out of the race today over allegations of an extramarital affair with Miami model Donna Rice and after the Washington Post threatened to run a story about a woman Hart had dated while separated from his wife. Continue reading Sex scandal forces Gary Hart out of Democratic presidential race this hour 30 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (May 8 1987) →