Video: 'Who Killed Vincent Chin'
(Saturday, June 19, 1982) — Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American auto engineer, was fatally beaten tonight after a confrontation at the Fancy Pants strip club in Highland Park, Michigan, by two auto workers who later received probation for manslaughter in state court, and won acquittals in federal court.
Video: 'Hurricane Agnes 1972 Flooding'
(Monday, June 19, 1972, shortly before 6 p.m. EDT) — Hurricane Agnes, blamed for at least 122 deaths, made landfall today over the Florida Panhandle.
Video: Washington Post connects Watergate break-in with White House (at 6:23)
(Monday, June 19, 1972) — Based on a tip from Deep Throat, the pseudonym given to a secret informant (later identified as Federal Bureau of Investigation Associate Director Mark Felt), Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward discovered today that one of the Watergate burglars had E. Howard Hunt in his address book and possessed checks signed by him, and that Hunt was connected to White House aide Charles Colson.
Video: June 19, 1972 (at 1:53)
(Monday, June 19, 1972) — White House Counsel John Dean was chosen today to head up the Watergate burglary cover-up, meeting on a park bench near the White House with G. Gordon Liddy, who offered himself to be shot. Continue reading Dean takes charge of Watergate cover-up 40 years ago today (1972)
Video: '76 Trombones'
(Tuesday, June 19, 1962) — The Music Man, a film about a con man who comes to a Midwestern town with a scam using a boy’s marching band program, opened today in the U.S.
The film was directed by Morton DaCosta and stars Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett and Ron Howard. It won one Academy Award and was nominated for five more.
Video: Congress outlaws slavery in territories (at 14:46)
(Thursday, June 19, 1862, during the American Civil War) — Congress passed a measure abolishing slavery in United States territories and President Lincoln quickly signed the legislation today, finally reversing the 1857 opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States in the Dred Scott Case that Congress was powerless to regulate slavery in U.S. territories.
(Friday, June 18, 1982) — On his 40th birthday, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney today began filming of a promotional video for his next single, Take It Away, to be released in three days in the U.S. and Britain.
The video, shot June 18/19/21/22/23, 1982, at Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, England, featured former Beatles’ drummer Ringo Starr and long-time producer George Martin, both of whom played on the track, as well as actor John Hurt.
Video: June 18, 1972 (at 1:08)
(Sunday, June 18, 1972) — U.S. President Richard Nixon says he learned of yesterday’s burglary at the Watergate complex today when he read a small article on the front page of The Miami Herald newspaper while he was vacation with his friend Bebe Rebozo in Key Biscayne, Florida.
Video: Video: June 18, 1972 (at 0:20)
(Saturday, June 17, 1972) — Sail Away by Randy Newman debuted at #186 on today’s Billboard’s 200 albums chart (it will eventually peak at #163). The title song (and first on the album to play) is ranked #264 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
(Saturday, June 17, 1972) — The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars by David Bowie debuted at #196 on today’s Billboard’s 200 albums chart (it will eventually peak at #75). The track Ziggy Stardust is ranked #277 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
