Video: 'PaulMcCartney in Köln 2003'
(Sunday, April 27, 2003, 8:33 p.m. Central European Summer Time) — Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney performed tonight at the Kölnarena in Cologne, Germany, the ninth stop and 16th performance of his Back in the World tour.
Video: 'Paul McCartney with Carl Perkins: My Old Friend [Rare documentary] 1993'
(Tuesday, April 27, 1993) — Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney performed backstage today with Carl Perkins before McCartney’s concert at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in Memphis, Tennessee (during the North America leg of McCartney’s The New World Tour), for the documentary “My Old Friend.”
(Friday, April 27, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray resigned today after it was revealed that he’d destroyed files removed from the safe of Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt.
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(Monday, April 25, 1983; during the Cold War) — 10-year-old Samantha Smith of Manchester, Maine, received a reply today from Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov to a letter she’d written expressing concern about possible nuclear war. Andropov reassured Samantha that the Soviet Union did not want war, and he invited her to visit his country, a trip Samantha made the following July.
Video: 'Paul McCartney speaks Dutch - April 25th 2003, Gelredome Arnhem'
(Friday, April 25, 2003, 8:15 p.m. Central European Summer Time) — Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney performed tonight at the Gelredome in Arnhem, Netherlands, the eighth stop and 15th performance of his Back in the World tour.
Video: Apr. 25, 1973 (at 6:26)
(Wednesday, April 25, 1973, 11:06 a.m. EST; during the Watergate scandal) — “If (White House Counsel John) Dean (who is currently talking to prosecutors) is totally out of control,” Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs John Ehrlichman told U.S. President Richard Nixon today, “you could get an article of impeachment.” White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman later remembered that Nixon looked stunned.
Video: 'New York Documentary'
(Thursday, April 24, 1913, 7:29 p.m. local time) — U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, from the White House in Washington tonight, gave the signal for the formal opening of the new 57-story Woolworth Building at 233 Broadway in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, the tallest structure in the world (at that time) with the exception of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Continue reading President Wilson formally opens Woolworth Building, world’s tallest, 100 years ago this hour (1913)
Video: 'Jonell Mosser & The New Maroons - Something Wild (Live on Farm Aid VI l993)'
(Saturday, April 24, 1993) — Ex-Beatle Ringo Starr performed on the drums today with The New Maroons for Farm Aid VI, to help raise money for family farmers in the United States, at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa. Continue reading Ringo Starr performs at Farm Aid VI in Ames 20 years ago today (1993)
Video: 'Shane' trailer
(Thursday, April 23, 1953) — Shane, a Western film about a mysterious drifter who helps farmers fight off a vicious gunman, premiered today at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
Directed by George Stevens, the film starred Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon deWilde and Jack Palance.
Video: 'PT 109'
(Friday, April 23, 1943, part of the Pacific Theater of World War II) — U.S. Navy Lt. (jg) John F. Kennedy assumed command today of PT-109, a motor torpedo boat, in the Solomon Islands during World War II. On Aug. 2, 1943, PT-109 was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer, the Amagiri, killing two crew members; the future U.S. president and 10 others managed to survive.
