Video: 'Che Guevara speech at UN 1964 (English subtitles!!)'
(Friday, December 11, 1964; during the Cold War) — Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara addressed the United Nations today, declaring that “the final hour of colonialism has struck.” Continue reading Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara addresses United Nations 50 years ago today (Dec 11 1964)
Video: 'Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature'
(Tuesday, December 10, 1974, during the Cold War) — Exiled Soviet writer Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn took possession today of the Nobel Prize for Literature that he was unable to claim when it was awarded to him in 1970.
Video: 'Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech'
(Thursday, December 10, 1964) — The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today on behalf of the civil rights movement and “all men who love peace and brotherhood.”
The Baptist minister, in a ceremony at Oslo University, said the award came “at a moment when 22 million Negroes of the United States are engaged in a creative battle to end the long night of racial injustice.”
Video: 'Saturday Night Live Promo- Ringo Starr & Billy Crystal- 1984'
(Thursday, December 6, 1984) — Former Beatle Ringo Starr taped promotional video clips today for his upcoming (Dec. 8, 1984) appearance as host of the NBC-TV show Saturday Night Live in New York City, including one with cast member Billy Crystal.
Video: 'The Inner Workings of the Lincoln Presidency: Salmon P. Chase Biography (1995)'
(Tuesday, December 6, 1864; during the American Civil War) — President Abraham Lincoln nominated Salmon P. Chase to be chief justice of the United States today, succeeding Roger Taney, who died Oct. 12, 1864. Chase was installed as chief justice nine days later.
Video: 'Mony Python Party Political Broadcast'
(Thursday, December 5, 1974) — “Party Political Broadcast,” the final episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, a British sketch comedy series created by the comedy group Monty Python, aired today on BBC Television.
(Saturday, December 4, 1954) — James McLamore and David Edgerton opened the first Burger King stand today at 3090 NW 36th Street in Miami.
Video: 'Mario Savio: Sproul Hall Steps, December 2, 1964'
(Thursday, December 3, 1964, 3:45 a.m. PST; during the Free Speech Movement (FSM)) — Police arrested about 800 students today at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover of and massive sit-in at the Sproul Hall administration building. Continue reading 800 arrested at Berkeley, students paralyze campus 50 years ago today (Dec 3 1964)
Video: 'J. F. Lesueur & N. Roze: Coronation music for Napoleon I (Paris, 1804) / V. Tchernouchenko'
(Sunday, December 2, 1804) — Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor of the French today at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.
Video: 'Beverly Hills Cop' (trailer)
(Saturday, December 1, 1984) — Beverly Hills Cop, an action comedy film about a street-smart Detroit cop who heads to Beverly Hills, California, to solve the murder of his best friend, premiered today in Los Angeles.
Directed by Martin Brest, the film starred Eddie Murphy, Judge Reinhold and John Ashton.
