Video: 'Linda - Behind the Lens(documentary) part 4' (Oct. 9, 1992, at 3:06)
(Friday, October 9, 1992) — Former Beatle Paul McCartney tonight attended a reception for Sixties, an exhibition of wife Linda’s pictures at the Royal Photographic Society in Bath, England.
Video: Oct. 9, 1972 (at 11:35)
(Monday, October 9, 1972, at around 2 a.m. EDT, during the Watergate scandal) — Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward met his FBI source (later known to be Associate FBI Director W. Mark Felt, referred to as “Deep Throat” at this time) in the underground parking garage in Roslyn, Virginia. Felt tells Woodward that employees of the committee to re-elect President Nixon were not only the behind the Watergate break-in but are also deeply involved in all kinds of political sabotage against Nixon’s enemies.
Video: Oct. 8, 1972 (0:41)
(Sunday, October 8, 1972, during the Vietnam War, part of the Cold War) — At the Paris Peace Talks, North Vietnam’s negotiator, Le Duc Tho reached an agreement today with Henry Kissinger of the United States on ending the Vietnam War. Continue reading Major breakthrough reached in Vietnam War peace talks 40 years ago today (1972)
Video: 'Baseball First NL Grand Slam in World Series (History's Playlist)-Sports'
(Monday, October 8, 1962) — Chuck Hiller of the San Francisco Giants today became the first National Leaguer to hit a World Series grand slam with a shot against New York Yankees pitcher Marshall Bridges in game 4. The final score of the game was Giants 7, Yankees 3.
Video: 'World Series Champions: Baseball's Golden Era' (1922 World Series at 0:22)
(Sunday, October 8, 1922) — The New York Giants won the 1922 World Series today, beating the New York Yankees 5-3 at at Polo Grounds (IV) in Manhattan, New York, in the fifth and deciding game (one game ended in a tie). It was the Giants’ third World Series win.
(Sunday, October 7, 1962, 8 p.m. EST) — Vaughn Meader did his JFK impersonation on tonight’s edition of the CBS-TV variety show The Ed Sullivan Show.
Video: 'Cats - Memory - Original Broadway Cast'
(Thursday, October 7, 1982) — The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical Cats opened on Broadway today at the Winter Garden Theatre. The show closed Sept. 10, 2000, after a record 7,485 performances.
Video: '1952 World Series Game 7: Yankees vs Dodgers'
(Tuesday, October 7, 1952) — The New York Yankees won the 1952 World Series today, beating the Brooklyn Dodgers 4-2 at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York, in the seventh and deciding game. It was the Yankees’s fourth consecutive World Series title, 15th overall.
Video: Oct. 1862 (at 1:01:15)
(Monday, October 6, 1862, during the American Civil War) — A notice in the New York Times today announced that an exhibition of photographs of the Battle of Antietam taken by Mathew Brady (titled “The Dead Of Antietam”) were being displayed at the National Gallery, corner of Broadway and Tenth-street.
This was the first time that many Americans saw the realities of war in photographs as distinct from previous “artists’ impressions.”
Video: 'George Harrison & Ravi Shankar - Ride Rajbun'
(Monday, October 5, 1992) — The Bunbury Tails, a musical album based on a series of cartoon books about a team of rabbit cricket players called The Bunburys, was released in the UK today. The album included Ride Rajbun by George Harrison, his son Dhani and Ravi Shankar.
