httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj0CK_jgNns
(Wednesday, April 25, 2001) — Amélie, a romantic comedy film about a shy waitress who decides to change the lives of those around her for the better, while struggling with her own isolation, opened today in Belgium.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pZ4aqTNw8A
(Wednesday, April 24, 1991, 8 p.m. ET) — On tonight’s episode of the TV series The Wonder Years, When Winnie is in a car accident, Kevin rides over to see her at home, but her parents say she doesn’t want to see him. Continue reading Tonight on TV: ‘The Wonder Years’
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2hDKOhS7KM
(Thursday, April 23, 1931) — The Public Enemy, a film about a young hoodlum who rises up through the ranks of the Chicago underworld, opens in the U.S.
(Thursday, April 22, 1971) — The first video for Ringo Starr’s It Don’t Come Easy single premiered tonight in the UK on Top of the Pops.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxqQPrUomTc
(Friday, April 22, 2001) — Shrek, an animated comedy film about an ogre who, in order to regain his swamp, travels along with an annoying donkey to bring a princess to a scheming lord, wishing himself King, premieres in the U.S.
"The Civil War - Episode One: The Cause (1861)" (Lee offered Virginia command 1:03:02)
(Sunday, April 21, 1861) — Governor John Letcher of Virginia today offered Robert E. Lee command of the state militia.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r44auGtBkLw
“The Rip Van Winkle Caper” (part one)
(Friday, April 21, 1961, 10 p.m. ET) — A gang of gold thieves use suspended animation to escape to the future on tonight’s episode of The Twilight Zone. Continue reading Tonight on TV: ‘The Twilight Zone’
"The Civil War - Episode One: The Cause (1861)" (Lee resigns at 1:02:55)
(Saturday, April 20, 1861) — Colonel Robert E. Lee turned down today an April 18 offer by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln to become a major general in the U.S. Army and resigned.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qXZp8bxpNY
(Thursday, April 20, 1961) — President Kennedy, following the anti-Castro Bay of Pigs invasion had been crushed, said today that United States’ restraint is “not inexhaustible” and that we do not intend to abandon Cuba to communism (CLICK HERE to watch Kennedy’s Apr. 20, 1961, speech).
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwgqsXTvQns
This video tells the story of the integration of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system during the 1960's and 70's.
(Tuesday, April 20, 1971) — The U.S. Supreme Court, in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, today unanimously upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools.
