Video: 'The Beatles - Ticket To Ride (Take 2 - narrow stereo)'
(Monday, February 15, 1965, 2:30-5:45 p.m. GMT) — The Beatles today began recording their fifth sudio album Help!, the soundtrack to their second feature film which would eventually be titled Help!, this afternoon at EMI Studio 2 in London, tracking “Ticket to Ride.” Continue reading The Beatles begin taping songs for their second film ‘Help!’ and its soundtrack LP 60 years ago this hour (Feb 15 1965)
Video: 'Mini Bio: Nat King Cole'
(Monday, February 15, 1965, 5:30 a.m. PST) — Nat King Cole, the velvet-voiced popular singer, died this morning at St. John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, California, of lung cancer (he was a heavy cigarette smoker). Cole was 45 years old. Continue reading Legendary singer Nat King Cole, 45, dies of lung cancer 60 years ago this hour (Feb 15 1965)
Video: 'My Carnival (2014 Remaster)'
(Friday, February 14, 1975) — Paul McCartney and Wings completed the recording sessions for “My Carnival,” a track which would go unreleased for ten years, today at Sea-Saint Recording Studio in New Orleans, overdubbing backing vocals and clapping onto the band’s recording of Feb. 12, 1975. Continue reading Paul McCartney & Wings complete recording of ‘My Carnival’ in New Orleans 50 years ago today (Feb 14 1975)
Video: 'One reason why this camp was considered the most horrible | Gross-Rosen'
(Wednesday, February 14, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The Gross-Rosen concentration camp, a Nazi German network of Nazi concentration camps built and operated in the village of Gross-Rosen not far from the border with occupied Poland, was captured today by the Red Army. Continue reading Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Germany liberated by Red Army 80 years ago today (Feb 14 1945)
Video: '911: WTC Withstood Several Hours of Fire in 1975'
(Thursday, February 13, 1975, just before midnight EST) — A three-alarm fire deliberately set by a disgruntled custodian broke out tonight in the 11th-floor offices of the B.F. Goodrich Company in the north tower of the World Trade Center, and spread through an inner-service core to the ninth and 14th floors but caused no direct casualties.
Video: 'Bruno Hauptmann Found Guilty (1935) - Historic Newsreels'
(Wednesday, February 13, 1935, 10:45 p.m. EST) — A jury in Flemington, New Jersey, found Bruno Richard Hauptmann guilty of first-degree murder tonight in the kidnap-slaying of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh (Hauptmann was later executed). Continue reading Bruno Richard Hauptmann found guilty in Lindbergh baby murder trial 90 years ago this hour (Feb 13 1935)
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Video: 'Dresden Bombed To Atoms: World War II (1945) | British Pathé'
(Tuesday, February 13, 1945, 10:14 p.m. CET; during the Bombing of Dresden, part of strategic bombing during World War II) — Royal Air Force bombers were dispatched to Dresden, Germany, tonight to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment. Continue reading Allied planes begin massive bombardment of Dresden, Germany 80 years ago this hour (Feb 13 1945)
Video: 'Wingspan Paul and Linda McCartney Documentary' (Feb. 13, 1975, at 57:08-58:14)
(Thursday, February 13, 1975) — Paul McCartney and Wings held a press conference and party today aboard a Mississippi steamboat in New Orleans (with the Young Tuxedo Brass Band performing on the quay prior to the party) to promote the ongoing recording sessions for their next album Venus and Mars. Continue reading Paul McCartney & Wings host press conference and party in New Orleans 50 years ago today (Feb 13 1975)
Video: 'WNEW FM / 1975 03 12 / Scott Muni with John Lennon'
(Thursday, February 13, 1975, 2:00-6:00 p.m. EST) — Ex-Beatle John Lennon stopped in at WNEW-FM in New York today to play DJ and to promote his new album of rock standards, Rock ‘n Roll, which would be released four days later (click here to listen to a clean audio copy of the interview).
Video: Vietnam: A Television History (Ep-4) LBJ Goes to War (1964-1965)' (Feb. 13, 1965, at 28:18)
(Saturday, February 13, 1965, LBJ met with top national security advisors from 1:56 to 4:00 p.m. EST; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson today authorized Operation Rolling Thunder, an extended bombing campaign to force North Vietnam to stop supporting Vietcong guerrillas in the South. Continue reading U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorizes massive bombing campaign against North Vietnam 60 years ago this hour (Feb 13 1965)
