Video: 'Woodrow Wilson's 1923 Armistice Day Radio Address'
(Saturday, November 10, 1923, 8:38 p.m. ET) — On the eve of Armistice Day marking the fifth anniversary of the end of World War I, former U.S. President Woodrow Wilson declared tonight in a radio address from his Washington home that the attitude of this country since the World War had been “deeply ignoble,” “cowardly and dishonorable.”
Video: 'Atoka, November 1963: 10-11'
(Sunday, November 10, 1963) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his family and friends were filmed today at his new residence, Wolf’s Head Farm in Atoka, Virginia. At one point during a light-hearted moment, the president was nearly “eaten” by daughter Caroline’s pony Macaroni.
(Monday, November 9, 1863; during the American Civil War) — U.S. President Abraham Lincoln watched actor John Wilkes Booth in the role of Raphael in The Marble Heart today from the same box at Ford’s Theatre in Washington that Lincoln would be assassinated by Booth 17 months later.
Video: 'Paul McCartney - Paul Is Live - Full CD'
(Monday, November 8, 1993) — Paul Is Live, the fourth post-Beatles live album by Paul McCartney, was released today the UK (Nov. 16, 1993 in the U.S.), recorded during his New World Tour in support of the studio album Off the Ground.
Video: 'I Do by the Beach Boys'
(Thursday, November 7, 1963, midnight PST) — The Beach Boys recorded “I Do” today at RCA studio in Los Angeles, leaving it unreleased for 27 years until 1990’s re-release of Surfer Girl/Shut Down Volume 2.
Video: 'Princess Daisy (1983) Trailer'
(Sunday, November 6, 1983, 9:00 p.m. EST) — The first part of Princess Daisy, a made-for-TV film about the spirited daughter of a beautiful American movie star and a dashing Russian prince struggling to overcome her past, debuted tonight on NBC-TV (the second part aired the following night, Nov. 7, 1983). Continue reading ‘Princess Daisy’ featuring Ringo Starr debuts on NBC 30 years ago this hour (1983)
Video: 'The World At War: Red Star The Soviet Union 5/5' (Nov. 6, 1943, at 8:38)
(Saturday, November 6, 1943; during the Second Battle of Kiev on the Eastern Front of World War II) — Soviet forces, under the command of Nikolai Fyodorovich Vatutin, today captured Kiev, the Soviet Union’s third largest city. Only 6,000 Axis prisoners were taken as most of the German forces had successfully withdrawn.
Video: 'James brown celebrity hottub'
(Saturday, November 5, 1983, 11:30 p.m. EST) — Cast member Eddie Murphy impersonated James Brown tonight during a musical comedy sketch titled “James Brown’s Celebrity Hot Tub Party” on NBC’s Saturday Night Live.
TV Guide and TV Land ranked this sketch #30 out the “100 Most Memorable TV Moments of All Time” in 2004.
Video: 'The Extraordinary - Gram Parsons - 1995'
(Monday, November 5, 1973) — Singer Gram Parsons’ manager, Phil Kaufman, was fined $300 today for stealing Parsons’ body from the Los Angeles International Airport. The body was cremated instead of taken to Parsons’ funeral. Kaufman claimed that it was Parsons’ wish to be cremated.
Video: 'PRESIDENT KENNEDY DICTATES NOTES REGARDING VIETNAM (NOVEMBER 4, 1963)'
(Monday, November 4, 1963, evening; during the 1963 South Vietnamese coup, part of the Vietnam War, the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — U.S. President John F. Kennedy reflected upon the tumultuous events that had transpired in Saigon over the previous weekend, the overthrow and murder of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Ding Nhu.
