Video: 'Mary Poppins' (trailer)
(Thursday, August 27, 1964) — Mary Poppins, a musical fantasy film about a magical nanny who visits a dysfunctional family in London and employs her unique brand of lifestyle to improve the family’s dynamic, premiered today at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
Directed by Robert Stevenson, the film starred Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson and Glynis Johns.
Video: 'Hubert H. Humphrey 1964 Vice Presidential Acceptance Speech'
(Thursday, August 27, 1964, evening EDT) — In a speech accepting the Democratic nomination for vice president at the 1964 Democratic National Convention, Senator Hubert H. Humphrey lauded President Lyndon Johnson tonight as a wise and courageous champion of all the people and called Senator Barry Goldwater an impetuous “temporary spokesman” for the Republican party.
Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - LBJ Goes to War [3/11]' (Aug. 27, 1964, at 26:32)
(Thursday, August 27, 1964; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — The ruling military revolutionary council elected Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh and two other top generals today to run South Vietnam for the next two months amid bloody new riots in Saigon.
Video: 'Pres. Johnson Names Vice-President At Democratic Convention (1964)' (Aug. 26, 1964, at 0:00-2:48)
(Wednesday, August 26, 1964, evening EDT) — Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas, the man who took over the presidency last Nov. 22 in the shattering hour of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, was nominated by acclamation for a term of his own tonight by the 1964 Democratic National Convention meeting at the Convention Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Continue reading Democrats nominate Johnson-Humphrey ticket 130 years ago tonight (Aug 26 1964)
Video: 'Documentary World War 2 II in Colour The Second World War color' (de Gaulle in Paris at 1:51:45)
(Saturday, August 26, 1944; during the Liberation of Paris, part of Operation Overlord, World War II) — French Gen. Charles de Gaulle braved the threat of German snipers as he led a victory march in Paris, which had been liberated by the Allies from Nazi occupation the previous day. Continue reading de Gaulle leads victory march in liberated Paris 70 years ago today (Aug 26 1944)
Video: 'The Great War episode 2 Stalemate' (Aug. 26-30, 1914, at 27:10)
(Wednesday, August 26, 1914, morning local time; part of the Eastern Front of World War I) — The Battle of Tannenberg, an engagement between the Russian and the German Empires, began today near Allenstein, East Prussia (today Olsztyn, Poland), resulting in the almost complete destruction of the Russian Second Army.
(Tuesday, August 25, 1964) — Having been eliminated as President Lyndon Johnson’s running mate, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, brother of the recently assassinated president, John F. Kennedy, formally entered the race for the U.S. Senate today as a Democrat from New York. The Republican opposition immediately labeled Kennedy “the carpetbagger candidate.”
((Thursday, August 23, 1984, evening CDT) — U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush accepted the nomination for a second term tonight at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas, describing the 1984 election as a historic dividing line in American politics (click here to watch a video of the speech).
By winning election to a second term, the Vice President said in his acceptance speech, he and President Ronald Reagan would establish the Republicans as “the party of the future.”
(Wednesday, August 23, 1944; during World War II) — Romanian Prime Minister Ion Antonescu was dismissed by King Michael today, paving the way for Romania to abandon the Axis in favor of the Allies.
(Sunday, August 23, 1914; during World War I) — The Emperor of Japan today declared war upon Germany. This action was taken at the expiration of the time limit of Japan’s ultimatum to Germany demanding the surrender of Kiao-Chau. The Japanese Government has ordered the beginning of operations on land and sea.
