Ladies and Gentlemen, the Beatles! February 9th,1964Beatlemania hits prime time in the United States. The Fab Four made their first live appearance on the American TV on the Ed Sullivan Show on CBS. 1950 In Villen, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCar...
February 8th, 1999In the Mid East, hundreds of world leaders, many of them bitter enemies attend the funeral of King Hussein in Jordan. 1915The Birth of a Nation, a silent movie epic about the Civil War premieres in Los Angeles. D.W.Griffith's work b...
February 5th, 1937: President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes boosting the number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. He pushes the plan after the Court strikes down key parts of his new deal program during the Great Depression. The Court itself ca...
1945In the final month of World War II in Europe, the top allied leaders meet at Yalta in Ukraine , then part of the Soviet Union. President Franklin Roosevelt, Britains Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin discuss plans for Nazi Germanys...
February 2nd, 1943A major victory for the Soviet Union during World War II, as the last of Nazi Germanys forces in the Battle of Stalingrad surrender. The Nazis and their excess partners lost some 800,000 troops in the month-long battle. The Soviet l...
January 31st, 1958America enters the space age, successfully launching its first satellite into orbit Explorer I. It happens just months after the Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the very first satellite into orbit. 2001A Libyan intelligence officer i...
Our war against terror is only beginning. January 29th, 2002Just months after the September 11th attacks, President George W. Bush warns terrorists still threaten the United States. Bush also singles out 3 nations during his first State of the Union...
January 27th, 1945In the final month of World War II, Soviet troops liberate Nazi Germany's concentration camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland, that's where up to a million and a half people, 90% of them Jews perished, as part of the Nazi's fina...
You have to find the answer to that riddle somewhere else. January 26th, 1998President Bill Clinton denies having an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told a...
January 25th, 1981The 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrive home in the United States, reuniting with their families at last. 1971In Los Angeles, Charles Manson and three of his female followers are convicted of murder and conspiracy...
