Video: 'The Madness From Within - The Irish Civil War Part 2' (June 28, 1922, at 9:35)
(Wednesday, June 28, 1922) — The Irish Civil War began today with the Battle of Dublin between rival nationalists over the Anglo-Irish Treaty establishing the Irish Free State. The conflict lasted nearly a year, resulting in defeat for anti-treaty forces.
Video: 'Too Late The Hero: A Tribute to John Entwistle'
(Thursday, June 27, 2002) — John Entwistle, the bass player who’d co-founded The Who, was found dead today in room 658 at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, just before the band’s US tour was due to commence. Continue reading The Who’s bass player John Entwistle found dead 10 years ago today (2002)
Video: 'Michael Jackson - Billie Jean - Live in Munich 1992'
(Saturday, June 27, 1992) — Michael Jackson kicked off his Dangerous World Tour tonight before about 70,000 people at Munich Olympic Stadium in Munich, Germany. The tour, which would run to Nov. 11, 1993, included 69 performances to an audience of 3.5 million.
Video: 'The history of Atari'
(Tuesday, June 27, 1972) — The video game company Atari, Inc., a pioneer in arcade games, home video game consoles, and home computers, was founded today by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney in Santa Clara, California.
Video: 'Newsreel about German Saboteurs & Spies in the U.S. during World War II'
(Saturday, June 27, 1942, during Operation Pastorius, part of World War II) — The FBI announced tonight the arrests of eight Nazi saboteurs, highly trained by direction of the German High Command at a special school for sabotage near Berlin, who had been put ashore in Florida and Long Island, New York. Continue reading FBI announces the arrests of eight Nazi saboteurs 70 years ago tonight (1942)
Video: Barkley speech (at 1:46)
(Monday, June 27, 1932) — Democrats opened the 1932 Democratic National Convention today at Chicago Stadium in Chicago, with New York Gov. (and 1920 vice presidential nominee) Franklin D. Roosevelt viewed as virtually certain of nomination for president.
In a keynote speech bristling with denunciation of the Hoover administration, Sen. Alben W. Barkley today urged the convention to favor repealing the Eighteenth Amendment and called upon the nation to turn the Republicans out of office.
Video: STS-4 launch and July 4, 1982 landing
(Sunday, June 27, 1982, 11:00:00 a.m. EST) — The U.S. space shuttle Columbia went into orbit today on its fourth and final test flight, carrying a secret military cargo and an array of experimental instruments.
The multi-mission Columbia, piloted by Ken Mattingly and Henry Hartsfield, began its week-long flight after a punctual lift-off.
Video: '1000 Plane Raid June 26 1942'
(Friday, June 26, 1942, part of strategic bombing during World War II) — Some 1,000 British Royal Air Force bombers completed an overnight raid on Bremen, Germany, early this morning, the RAF’s third “thousand bomber raid.” of the war. 572 houses were completely destroyed and 6,108 damaged. 85 people were killed, 497 injured and 2,378 bombed out.
Video: June 26, 1862 (at 19:54)
(Thursday June 26, 1862, the first major engagement of the Seven Days Battles during the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War) — Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia struck Union Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac today in the Battle of Beaver Dam Creek in Hanover County, Virginia. Continue reading Lee attacks McClellan’s forces east of Richmond 150 years ago today (1862)
Video: Army of Virginia organized (at 33:17)
(Thursday June 26, 1862, during the American Civil War) — U.S. President Abraham Lincoln today consolidated four separate commands of Generals Fremont, Banks, McDowell and Sturgis into The Army of Virginia, appointing Major-General John Pope to command it.
The purpose of the new army was to protect Washington, and act in conjunction with General George B. McClellan’s assault on Richmond.
