Video: 'The Beatles Episode 3 : Please Mr Postman'
(Saturday, October 9, 1965, 10:30 a.m. EDT) — Ringo loses 15 rings he bought with all of the Beatles’ spendings and they are expecting a telegram from manager Brian Epstein for more money on this morning’s episode of The Beatles, a weekly cartoon television series on ABC.
Video: 'Achille Lauro story'
(Wednesday, October 9, 1985, 5:00 p.m. Eastern European Summer Time) — The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrendered today in exchange for safe conduct (they were flown towards Tunisia aboard an Egyptian commercial airliner, but intercepted and forced to land in Sicily), two days after seizing the vessel in the Mediterranean and one day after killing passenger Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly, wheelchair-bound tourist from New York.
(Saturday, October 9, 1965) — “Baby Don’t Go” by Sonny & Cher peaked at #8 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week. Continue reading ‘Baby Don’t Go’ by Sonny & Cher peaks at #8 in USA 60 years ago today (Oct 9 1965)
Video: '1995 Amtrak Sunset Limited Train Derailment: KTVK 3TV 11 a.m. newscast'
(Monday, October 9, 1995, at about 1:40 a.m. MST) — A sabotaged section of track caused an Amtrak train, the Sunset Limited, to derail today in Arizona, killing one person and injuring another 80. The case remains unsolved. Continue reading Sabotage derails Arizona train, one person killed 30 years ago this hour (Oct 9 1995)
Video: 'John Lennon interviews an infantile Sean Ono Lennon'
(Thursday, October 9, 1975, 2:07 a.m. EDT) — Sean Taro Ono Lennon, the son of ex-Beatle John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, was born early this morning at New York Hospital in Manhattan, New York City, on the former Beatle’s 35th birthday and two days after he won his battle against U.S. immigration authorities when a federal appeals court overturned an order to deport him.
Video: '1995 ALDS, Game 5: Yankees @ Mariners'
(Sunday, October 8, 1995, 8:26 p.m. PDT) — The Seattle Mariners won the 1995 American League Division Series tonight, beating the New York Yankees 6-5 at the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington, in the fifth and deciding game.
(Monday, October 8, 1945, 8:15 p.m. CST) — U.S. President Harry S. Truman declared this evening that the secrets of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada during a press conference in Tiptonville, Tennessee.
(Saturday, October 8, 1955) — “Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing” by The Four Aces was the #1 song on today’s Billboard Best Sellers in Stores chart for two non-consecutive weeks (Oct. 8/22, 1955). Continue reading ‘Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing’ by The Four Aces peaks at #1 in USA 70 years ago today (Oct 8 1955)
Video: 'Leon Klinghoffer Terrorist Murder 1985'
(Tuesday, October 8, 1985, at about 3:00 p.m. Eastern European Summer Time) — The hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro today killed passenger Leon Klinghoffer, a retired, wheelchair-bound Jewish American businessman, shooting him in the forehead and chest, then forcing the ship’s barber and a waiter to throw his body and wheelchair overboard. Continue reading Achille Lauro hijackers kill Jewish American passenger, throw body overboard 40 years ago this hour (Oct 8 1985)
Video: 'PBS LBJ Part 2' (Oct. 8, 1965, at 51:02)
(Friday, October 8, 1965, 7:00-9:15 a.m. EDT) — U.S. President Lyndon Johnson underwent a successful operation today at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, during which surgeons removed his gall bladder and a ureteral stone.
