Video: Jan. 11, 1973 (at 13:25)
(Thursday, January 11, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — Former CIA agent and White House aide E. Howard Hunt, one of the seven defendants in the Watergate bugging case, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy, burglary and eavesdropping in the June 1972 break-in at Democratic national headquarters, leaving six other defendants to face trial.
Video: Jan. 11, 1973 (6:03)
(Thursday, January 11, 1973; during the Vietnam War) — National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger cabled U.S. President Richard Nixon from Paris today that the agreement to end the Vietnam War was ready. The terms were almost identical to those laid down in October 1972.
Video: 'AIR FORCE ONE: THE PLANES AND THE PRESIDENTS" (PART 1)' (Jan. 11, 1943, at 3:58)
(Monday, January 11, 1943, shortly after 6:00 a.m. local time; during World War II) — Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S. president to fly while in office today as he left Miami today for a top-secret meeting with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Morocco. Continue reading Franklin Roosevelt becomes first sitting U.S. president to fly in a plane 70 years ago this hour (1943)
Video: 'President John F. Kennedy - January 1963'
(Tuesday, January 8, 1963, 9:30 p.m. EST) — Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa on loan to the United States from the Louvre Museum in Paris, went on display today at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., with President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, in attendance. Continue reading Kennedy welcomes da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’ to Washington 50 years ago this hour (1963)
Video: 'John Lennon "Love" (Single Edit-1982)'
(Saturday, January 8, 1983) — The John Lennon Collection by ex-Beatle John Lennon peaked at #33 on today’s Billboard 200 albums chart for four weeks.
Video: Jan. 8, 1973 (at 13:11)
(Monday, January 8, 1973; during the Watergate scandal) — U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica began selecting jurors today in Washington for the long-awaited trial of seven men charged in the June 1972 Watergate burglary, for which several past and present White House aides were named as prospective government witnesses.
Video: Jan. 8, 1943 (at 42:33)
(Friday, January 8, 1943; during the Battle of Stalingrad on the Eastern Front of World War II) — Gen. Konstantin Rokossovsky, commander of the Red Army on the Don front, called a cease fire today and offered German Gen. Friedrich Paulus terms of surrender. However, when Paulus asked Adolf Hitler, Führer of Germany, for permission to surrender, Hitler rejected this request almost out of hand and ordered him to hold Stalingrad to the last man.
Video: 'Schoolhouse Rock Classics: Multiplication Rock'
(Saturday, January 6, 1973) —Schoolhouse Rock!, an American interstitial programming series of animated musical educational short films that aired during the Saturday morning children’s programming, debuted today on ABC-TV.
Video: 'Tell Us The Poodle Story'
(Sunday, January 6, 1963) — Wild Kingdom, a television show that features wildlife and nature, debuted this afternoon on NBC. It was hosted by Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler.
Video: '1992 News Year in Review'
(Thursday, December 31, 1992) — The news divisions of ABC and NBC reviewed the most memorable events of 1992 tonight on their evening news broadcasts.
