Video: 'World Series Baseball (1947)'
(Monday, October 6, 1947, at approximately 1:30 p.m.-3:49 p.m. EST) — The New York Yankees won the 1947 World Series today, beating the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-2 at Yankee Stadium in Bronx, New York, in the seventh and deciding game. Continue reading Yankees beat Dodgers to win World Series 70 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 6 1947)
Video: 'The Beatles - Blue Jay Way (04, 1967, Stereo Remastered 2009)'
(Friday, October 6, 1967, 7:00 p.m.-2:00 a.m. BST) — The Beatles completed George Harrison’s “Blue Jay Way” (with a cello and tambourine overdub) today at EMI Studio 2 in London for Magical Mystery Tour, the band’s next television film and record project. Continue reading The Beatles complete ‘Blue Jay Way’ 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 6 1967)
Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 10' (Oct. 6, 1967, at 16:58)
(Friday, October 6, 1967, 12:24 p.m. EDT; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — At the height of the Vietnam War and his war on poverty at home, President Lyndon Johnson asked today for public pressure to help him get a tax increase and challenged Congress to face that unpleasant task “reasonably, not politically.” Continue reading Johnson urges public to press for tax increase 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 6 1967)
Video: 'Death To The Hippie 1967'
(Friday, October 6, 1967, sunrise PDT) — The Summer of Love officially ended today with a mock funeral ceremony entitled “The Death of the Hippie,” staged this morning at Buena Vista Park in San Francisco. Continue reading ‘Death of the Hippie’ mock funeral held 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 6 1967)
Video: 'First televised white house address , oct. 5, 1947'
(Thursday, October 5, 1947, 10:50 p.m. EST) — In the very first televised address from the White House, President Harry S. Truman tonight asked Americans to refrain from eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Thursdays to help stockpile grain for starving people in Europe. Continue reading Truman delivers first televised White House address 70 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 5 1947)
Video: 'Citadel (Remastered 2017 / Stereo)'
(Thursday, October 5, 1967) — The Rolling Stones today completed another round of recordings at Olympic Sound Studios and De Lane Lea Studios in London for their next album, Their Satanic Majesties Request, having finishing “Citadel” and “The Lantern.” Continue reading The Rolling Stones complete two more tracks 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 5 1967)
Video: 'Star Collector (Alternate Mono Mix)'
(Wednesday, October 4, 1967, evening PDT) — The Monkees completed an early version of “Star Collector” (at American Recording Co. in Studio City, California) and finished off “Goin’ Down,” “Daily Nightly” “The Door into Summer” and “Peter Percival Patterson’s Pet Pig Porky” tonight at Western Recorders, Studio One, in Hollywood, all but one (“Goin’ Down” would be issued as the flip-side of “Daydream Believer” single) for their fourth studio album Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd . Continue reading The Monkees complete four tracks, work on fifth 50 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 4 1967)
Video: 'Leave It To Beaver - S 1 E 1 - Beaver Gets 'Spelled''
(Friday, October 4, 1957, 7:30-8:00 p.m EDT) — Leave It to Beaver, an American television sitcom about an inquisitive and often naïve boy and his adventures in his suburban neighborhood, premiered as a regular series tonight on CBS-TV, starring Barbara Billingsley, Hugh Beaumont, Tony Dow and Jerry Mathers. Continue reading ‘Leave It to Beaver’ series debuts on CBS-TV 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 4 1957)
Video: '1957 - First Satellite in Space (Sputnik)'
(Friday, October 4, 1957; 19:28:34 UTC) — The Soviet Union today (Oct. 5, 1957, at the launch site) launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, into orbit from Baikonur Cosmodrome, a spaceport located in southern Kazakhstan, inaugurating the Space Age. Continue reading ‘Space Age’ begins as Soviets launch Sputnik 1 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 4 1957)
Video: 'John Lennon and George Harrison on Transcendental Meditation Beatles Interview' (Oct. 4, 1967, at 21:14)
(Wednesday October 4, 1967, 6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. BST) — John Lennon and George Harrison of The Beatles returned to Studio One at Wembley Studios in London today to pick up where their chat about Transcendental Meditation with David Frost left off on Sept. 29, 1967, for broadcast tonight The Frost Programme on the ITV network from 10:30 p.m. to 11:15 p.m. Continue reading Lennon, Harrison return to ‘Frost Programme’ 50 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 4 1967)
