VIDEOS: "Today In History" (Associated Press) - daily history lesson!

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: Andrea Doria begins to sink after a collision in the North Atlantic; An Air France Concorde crashes outside Paris; First 'test-tube' baby born; Golfer Ben Hogan dies; 'A Chorus Line' opens on Broadway. (July 25)


YouTube - Today in History for July 25th

[foxyladi]

interesting..:thumbsup:

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: President Richard Nixon says he'll resign; Thieves stage Britain's 'Great Train Robbery'; Nazi saboteurs in the U.S. executed during World War II; Mexico's Emiliano Zapata and actor Dustin Hoffman born. (Aug. 8)


YouTube - Today in History for August 8th

[foxyladi]

i love this i didn't know today was Dustin's birthday

[CGP]

YouTube - Today in History for August 9th

[hillary4change]

i love this i didn't know today was Dustin's birthday

I didn't realize yesterday was his birthday, but I also did not realize he was 72 yrs. old!!

[hillary4change]

Oh my gosh, I am about to freak out. I did not realize 14 yrs. had passed since Jerry Garcia died! :eek:

This must be wrong, I can't believe it! :surprise:

Does this seem impossible to any one else? :thinking:

[Brooke]

Oh my gosh, I am about to freak out. I did not realize 14 yrs. had passed since Jerry Garcia died! :eek:

This must be wrong, I can't believe it! :surprise:

Does this seem impossible to any one else? :thinking:

I remember it. I was at summer camp and everyone was upset. I was never much of a fan.

[hillary4change]

I remember it. I was at summer camp and everyone was upset. I was never much of a fan.

I was no fan, but I am shocked that it has been that long ago.

[CGP]

I was no fan, but I am shocked that it has been that long ago.

These "today in history" videos certainly provide reminders of how time has passed!

[VotingHillary]

These "today in history" videos certainly provide reminders of how time has passed!

or how OLD some of us are that we LIVED through alot of that video. :rotfl:

[mavfin]

or how OLD some of us are that we LIVED through alot of that video. :rotfl:

No comment.

[foxyladi]

I didn't realize yesterday was his birthday, but I also did not realize he was 72 yrs. old!!

same as me :rotfl:but he is much better preserved:rotfl:

[hillary4change]

same as me :rotfl:but he is much better preserved:rotfl:

You are too funny!! I didn't realize your age.

That is one of the odd things about communicating via the internet, oft times we decide what sex the poster is or age, nationality or what ever.

And oft times we are wrong, just like you proved to me now. I would not have guessed you at 72, I don't know why, but I would not have!

[CGP]

YouTube - Today in History for August 10th

[hillary4change]

I love these little history blurbs. Thanks CGP!

[CGP]

I love these little history blurbs. Thanks CGP!

They help keep the brain cells stimulated & long-term memory intact!

[hillary4change]

They help keep the brain cells stimulated & long-term memory intact!
Long term what?.....;)

[CGP]

Long term what?.....;)

Sounds you need these daily reminders!! Use it or lose it, as they say!

[foxyladi]

Sounds you need these daily reminders!! Use it or lose it, as they say!

I USED IT I REALLY DID :thumbsup::thumbsup:but i still lost it.:rotfl:

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: Start of the Watts riots in Los Angeles; President Ronald Reagan's joke causes a Cold War flap; The Mall of America opens; 'Roots' author Alex Haley born; Painter Jackson Pollock killed in auto accident. (Aug. 11)

YouTube - Today in History for August 11th

[hillary4change]

YouTube - Today in History for August 11th (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqAzcCLdcBg)

Love it, thanks CGP.

I still am shocked to here that sound test of Reagan's all these years later. What a dumb thing to say into a hot mic!!!

[CGP]

Love it, thanks CGP.

I still am shocked to here that sound test of Reagan's all these years later. What a dumb thing to say into a hot mic!!!

It was indeed a rather moronic thing to say, especially at that time in history!

Mall of America is still operating too!

http://www.mallofamerica.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_shopping_malls_in_the_United_State s

[foxyladi]

I love these little history blurbs. Thanks CGP!

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[CGP]

YouTube - Today in History for August 13th

[foxyladi]

You are too funny!! I didn't realize your age.

That is one of the odd things about communicating via the internet, oft times we decide what sex the poster is or age, nationality or what ever.

And oft times we are wrong, just like you proved to me now. I would not have guessed you at 72, I don't know why, but I would not have!

:rotfl::rotfl:14??????

[CGP]

YouTube - Today in History for August 15th

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: Elvis Presley, the King of Rock n' Roll, dies at Graceland; Baseball's Babe Ruth dies in New York; Uganda's Idi Amin dies in Saudi Arabia; 'Sports Illustrated' hits newsstands; Singer Madonna born. (Aug. 16)


YouTube - Today in History for August 16th

[Brooke]

I know this isn't one of the best moments to remember but it was 11 years ago today, this admission took place. I think everyone remembers this, although I don't know if anyone remembers it as well as I do. A night that I have named "Black Monday". And for a young, idealistic, passionate teenager from South Jersey who idolized her political hero, it was indeed a very black day.
YouTube - President Bill Clinton - Statement on Testifying Before Jury

[foxyladi]

it was such a shock when Elvis died.

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: Soviet hard-liners mount a coup against Mikhail Gorbachev; Nazi Germany ratifies Adolf Hitler's powers; U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers convicted by Soviet tribunal; Comedian Groucho Marx dies. (Aug. 19)


YouTube - Today in History for August 19th

[foxyladi]

i love this thanks :thumbsup:

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: Soviet coup against Mikhail Gorbachev fails; Exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky murdered in Mexico; Nat Turner leads a slave rebellion; U.S. flag gets 50th star; Count Basie and singer Kenny Rogers born. (Aug. 21)


YouTube - Today in History for August 21st

[foxyladi]

i love these ..:thumbsup::thumbsup:

[CGP]

i love these ..:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Helps keep the brain stimulated!!

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: Mount Vesuvius erupts, burying two Ancient Roman cities; Hurricane Andrew hits Florida; British troops burn Washington in War of 1812; Pluto demoted as a planet; Pete Rose banned from baseball for life. (Aug. 24)


YouTube - Today in History for August 24th

[foxyladi]

i remember Andrew..he was a bad one

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: American women gain the right to vote, as the U.S. Constitution's 19th Amendment takes effect; Investigators pinpoint the cause of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster; Aviator Charles Lindbergh dies. (Aug. 26)


YouTube - Today in History for August 26th

[hobbitt]

You know, most of this stuff is "current events" to some of us.


Well, maybe not Mount Vesuvius.


But I do remember those damned Brit hooligans, totally out of control, running up and down Pennsylvania Avenue, throwing torches and looting the smithies, the chandlers, the wheelwrights, the cooperage; stealing laudanum from the apothecary, freeing the mounts at the livery, and dumping colonial tobacco in the Patuxent.

Quite rude they were.

[CGP]

August 26, 1920: American women granted the right to vote! (http://womenshistory.about.com/od/suffrage1900/a/august_26_wed.htm)

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: Krakatoa erupts in South Pacific; President Lyndon Johnson and Mother Teresa born; America's first successful oil well; Britain's Lord Louis Mountbatten killed; Beatles manager Brian Epstein dies. (Aug. 27)


YouTube - Today in History for August 27th

[foxyladi]

bumpty bump

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: The Civil War's Second Battle of Bull Run ends; Thurgood Marshall confirmed as first black Supreme Court justice; First black astronaut blasts off; Ty Cobb's baseball debut; David Letterman moves to CBS. (Aug. 30)


YouTube - Today in History for August 30th

[foxyladi]

wow.i really love these history lessons.
thanks Murray..you are the best..:thumbsup::thumbsup:

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: Britain's Princess Diana killed in a Paris car crash; Poland's Solidarity labor movement born; Jack the Ripper's first victim found dead in London; Violinist Itzhak Perlman and singer Van Morrison born. (Aug. 31)


YouTube - Today in History for August 31st

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: Japan signs surrender, officially ending World War II; Union forces occupy Atlanta during the Civil War; A great fire ravages medieval London; Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh dies; Wreckage of the Titanic found. (Sept. 2


YouTube - Today in History for September 2nd

[foxyladi]

a lot of interesting happened today in history..

[CGP]

a lot of interesting happened today in history..

It seems this thread is almost a private one for you & me as no-one else comments in it!!!

But I will still keep posting the daily updates for the mutual benefit of our brains!!!

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: President William McKinley shot in Buffalo, N.Y.; Funeral held for Britain's Princess Diana; Mother Teresa mourned in India; Movie director Akira Kurosawa dies; Roger Waters of Pink Floyd fame born. (Sept. 6)


YouTube - Today in History for September 6th

[foxyladi]

You know, most of this stuff is "current events" to some of us.


Well, maybe not Mount Vesuvius.


But I do remember those damned Brit hooligans, totally out of control, running up and down Pennsylvania Avenue, throwing torches and looting the smithies, the chandlers, the wheelwrights, the cooperage; stealing laudanum from the apothecary, freeing the mounts at the livery, and dumping colonial tobacco in the Patuxent.

Quite rude they were.




remember Dolly running around gathering up all the paintings???

[foxyladi]

It seems this thread is almost a private one for you & me as no-one else comments in it!!!

But I will still keep posting the daily updates for the mutual benefit of our brains!!!

oh.yes please Murray..:thumbsup::thumbsup:

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: Nazi Blitz on Britain begins in World War II; Mobutu Sese Seko dies; Panama Canal Treaties signed; Rapper Tupac Shakur shot; ESPN debuts; Pro Football Hall of Fame dedicated; Rock star Buddy Holly born. (Sept. 7)


YouTube - Today in History for September 7th

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: America mourns victims of Sept. 11th attacks; Theodore Roosevelt becomes President; 'The Star-Spangled Banner' written; Monaco's Princess Grace dies; Baseball season cancelled due to players' strike. (Sept. 14


YouTube - Today in History for September 14th

[foxyladi]

interesting..just brings it all back

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: A pivotal battle in the American Revolution; President James Garfield dies; Bruno Hauptmann arrested in the Lindbergh baby case; Unabomber's manifesto published; 'Mary Tyler Moore Show' premieres. (Sept. 19)

YouTube - Today in History for September 19th

[CGP]

For yesterday:


Highlights of this day in history: Nine black students escorted into Little Rock's Central High School; President Woodrow Wilson collapses; Author William Faulkner born; TV's Barbara Walters and movie actor-producer Michael Douglas born. (Sept. 25)


YouTube - Today in History for September 25th

[CGP]

This is a recap of the world's news events that happened on Sunday, September 27th. (Sept. 27)


YouTube - Today in History for Sept. 27

[CGP]

YouTube - Today in History for October 3rd

[Nichelle]

Thanks for adding an update! I actually did a search for this thread last night but couldn't remember the title.

[CGP]

Thanks for adding an update! I actually did a search for this thread last night but couldn't remember the title.

The way I find it is by doing a tag search - "today in history".

[foxyladi]

The way I find it is by doing a tag search - "today in history".

tags are good.

[CGP]

tags are good.

Tags are very useful. I wish more people would use them!

[CGP]

YouTube - Today in History for October 4th

[foxyladi]

interesting roundup.thanks Murray.:thumbsup:@};-@};-@};-

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns; Imperial rule ends in China; Achille Lauro hijackers forced to land; Movie legend Orson Welles dies; Opera composer Giuseppe Verdi born; Actor Christopher Reeve dies. (Oct. 10)


YouTube - Today in History for October 10th

[foxyladi]

a lot of things happened today in history.
love your avatar Murray.:thumbsup:

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: Congress OK's U.S. military force against Iraq; Former President Jimmy Carter wins Nobel Peace Prize; Anita Hill accuses Supreme Court pick Clarence Thomas; Second Vatican Council opens; 'SNL' premieres. (Oct. 11)


YouTube - Today in History for October 11th

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: Columbus lands in Americas; USS Cole bombed in Yemen; Soviet leader Khrushchev bangs shoe at UN; Blast rips Bali nightclub; Opera's Luciano Pavarotti born; Singer John Denver dies in plane crash. (Oct. 12)


YouTube - Today in History for October 12th

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: Arab oil embargo fuels energy crisis; Americans clinch revolutionary victory at Saratoga; Deadly quake hits northern California; Mobster Al Capone convicted of tax evasion; Playwright Arthur Miller born. (Oct. 17)

YouTube - Today in History for October 17th

[foxyladi]

i remember those long gas lines and the even odd days to even get gas

[smiledr]

It seems this thread is almost a private one for you & me as no-one else comments in it!!!

But I will still keep posting the daily updates for the mutual benefit of our brains!!!

I just discovered this wonderful thread!

[CGP]

I just discovered this wonderful thread!

It's a good one for the brain cells!

[foxyladi]

brings back the memories:thumbsup:

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: Inventor Thomas Edison dies; Three scientists share Nobel prize for DNA work; Anthrax scare hits CBS in New York; Two U.S. athletes suspended for Mexico City Olympics protest; Rock star Chuck Berry born. (Oct. 18)

YouTube - Today in History for October 18th

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: Dawn of the UN; Dwight Eisenhower vows to end the Korean War; Suspects caught in D.C.-area sniper shootings; Concorde makes last trans-Atlantic flight; 'Star Trek' creator Gene Roddenberry dies. (Oct. 24)

YouTube - Today in History for October 24th

[CGP]

This site also provides a daily update:

http://chronita.com/

[foxyladi]

wonderful thanks Murray:D

[smiledr]

Thank you!

[CGP]

The Federalist Papers published in New York City; President Theodore Roosevelt is born; Egypian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin win Nobel Peace Prize; Boston Red Sox win their first World Series since 1918. (Oct. 27)

YouTube - Today in History for October 27th

[smiledr]

Thanks for posting! I love these!

[CGP]

For yesterday!

Highlights of this day in history: 'War of the Worlds' spooks Americans on Halloween Eve; A deadly mudslide hits Nicaragua after Hurricane Mitch; Muhammad Ali beats George Foreman in the 'Rumble in the Jungle'; Comedian Steve Allen dies. (Oct. 30)

YouTube - Today in History for October 30th

[foxyladi]

i really liked Steve he was great:D

[CGP]

For yesterday!

This is a recap of the world's news events that happened on Friday, November 6. (Nov. 6)

YouTube- Today in History for Nov. 6

[foxyladi]

great roundup.:D

[CGP]

This is a recap of the world's news events that happened on Sunday, November 8th. (Nov. 8)

YouTube- Today in History for Nov. 8

[Valin]

YouTube- Today in History for Nov. 8 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs0-NfGVUJ8)

I recall reading that Kennedy and Nixon were good friends (when they were in the House) and contributed money to each others campaign.

[foxyladi]

I recall reading that Kennedy and Nixon were good friends (when they were in the House) and contributed money to each others campaign.

amazing isn't it.??:D

[Valin]

1942 Operation "Torch" began as US & British forces land in French N Africa

Operation Torch


This may come a surprise to people...I have a book. :)
An Army At Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy
Rick Atkinson

Amazon.com Review
In An Army at Dawn,, a comprehensive look at the 1942-1943 Allied invasion of North Africa, author Rick Atkinson posits that the campaign was, along with the battles of Stalingrad and Midway, where the "Axis ... forever lost the initiative" and the "fable of 3rd Reich invincibility was dissolved." Additionally, it forestalled a premature and potentially disastrous cross-channel invasion of France and served as a grueling "testing ground" for an as-yet inexperienced American army. Lastly, by relegating Great Britain to what Atkinson calls the status of "junior partner" in the war effort, North Africa marked the beginning of American geopolitical hegemony. Although his prose is occasionally overwrought, Atkinson's account is a superior one, an agile, well-informed mix of informed strategic overview and intimate battlefield-and-barracks anecdotes. (Tobacco-starved soldiers took to smoking cigarettes made of toilet paper and eucalyptus leaves.) Especially interesting are Atkinson's straightforward accounts of the many "feuds, tiffs and spats" among British and American commanders, politicians, and strategists and his honest assessments of their--and their soldiers'--performance and behavior, for better and for worse. This is an engrossing, extremely accessible account of a grim and too-often overlooked military campaign. --H. O'Billovich

[Valin]

Five Years Ago!
Fallujah

And

**== Happy Birthday to Uncle Sams Misguided Children **==

[foxyladi]

Five Years Ago!
Fallujah (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtDfIU4RAeM)

And

**== Happy Birthday to Uncle Sams Misguided Children **==

yes indeed Valin

[CGP]

Today in History for November 15, 2009. Sherman's March begins; Articles of Confederation adopted; Joey Buttafuoco pleads guilty to statuatory rape.

YouTube- Today in History November 15, 2009

[smiledr]

As always, I love these. Thanks for taking the time to post.

[Valin]

YouTube- Today in History November 15, 2009 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PJbRXi1Psc)

The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny
Victor Davis Hanson

NY Times Books (http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hanson-battle.html)


(Snip)
More than twenty-two hundred years later William Tecumseh Sherman marched a similar-sized army of over 60,000 Westerners — like Thebans mostly rural, agrarian, and voting citizens — into the heart of the Confederacy — like Sparta the warden of sorts of an entire enslaved race. Sherman's Federal army rent the fabric of Georgian society. It freed rural black slaves, and left the opposing Rebels impotent and discredited before their helpless women and children. In less than forty days from November 16 to December 21, 1864, when he entered Savannah on the coast, Sherman's three-hundred-mile march had changed the entire psychological and material course of the Civil War.

My maternal grandmother, Georgia Johnston Davis, whose family — Johnstons from the South who claimed Albert Sidney Johnston as one of their own — had migrated to California from the ex-Confederacy, told me at ten that Sherman was a satanic "monster." Over a century after he died, many Southerners would still agree. In spring 1998, wire services reported the curious story of a wealthy Southerner who sought to write into the deed of his recently restored South Carolina plantation a restriction of future sale to anyone named "Sherman." In fact, the owner, Henry Ingram, Jr., told the Associated Press that his plantation, five miles north of Savannah and destroyed by Sherman in January 1865, should never fall into the hands of anyone of the "Yankee race" who was born above the Mason-Dixon line. Anyone with the name Sherman, Ingram promised, would not be allowed even to set foot on the property.

Very few of Sherman's Yankees were professional soldiers. The majority of his officers — most promoted from the enlisted ranks — were not raised in a hallowed tradition of military academies and genteel chivalry. Sherman, a West Point man, knew this and understood that the very tenets of free yeomanry lent a natural distaste for the binary world of the serf and plantation, giving his recruits a moral impetus to wreck Georgia. They marched out of Atlanta singing "John Brown's Body," and ravaged plantations to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Northerners from the Midwest and West, like the Thebans of old — no strangers to physical work, and eager rather than reluctant to march, camp outdoors, and live off the land — were to become lethal destroyers when given an ethical imperative, free rein, and a leader to drive them on. From November 1864 until it vanished in June 1865 just as abruptly as it was formed, Sherman's Army of the West was quite literally the most impressive and deadly body in the history of armed conflict — a truly ideological army that reflected the soul of its creator, Uncle Billy Sherman.

As in the advance of Epaminondas into the Peloponnese, Sherman fought few decisive engagements, but in a matter of weeks left a military culture in ruins, as no Georgian army dared meet him in pitched battle — as no Spartan phalanx had braved Epaminondas. To paraphrase Napoleon, Sherman, like Epaminondas, had "destroyed the enemy merely by marches" in a classical display of the indirect approach around rather than directly against the enemy's armies.

Sherman was well connected politically but was entirely democratic in his personal demeanor — without money, without title, or much desire to profit from his military glory. And like Epaminondas, this creature of democracy, indistinguishable to the eye from his men, had an innate disdain for the masses, a near loathing which in the abstract can only be seen as elitist: a few gifted men, a natural not an aristocratic elite, devoted to order were alone to be trusted to lead a mostly undereducated and easily swayed rabble whose natural proclivity was always to anarchy. Only educated, self-restrained, and rather fatalistic men like Sherman could govern soldiers like Americans, just as only a rare man like Epaminondas could manage his Thebans.

That this asthmatic and often sickly man suffered from occasional manic depression may be true. He threatened to hang reporters and shoot insubordinate enlisted men and was not afraid to match Confederate execution for execution or burn down entire cities that harbored terrorists. Admirer of the agrarian yeomen who had built his country, he had no real confidence in the intellect and culture of the American black, Indian, and Mexican. In short, like Epaminondas, he often seemed a dangerous, opinionated, and in some sense antidemocratic ascetic in charge of a murderous democratic militia whose deadliness derived in large part from his own tactical and strategic genius. His army's legacy, like the Thebans', is that his mob of burners and ravagers saved far more lives than they took, helped to free an enslaved people when others more liberal could not, and in a few months disgraced the notion of militarism without fighting a major battle.

The war for the Union ended a few months after Sherman reached Savannah on the coast and turned northward into the Carolinas. Within a year of burning Atlanta most of his bluecoats were back again farming in the Midwest. Almost to the man they were never to muster under arms again — at the time the most rapid demobilization of the most accomplished army in history. It is difficult to determine whether Georgians hated Sherman and his army as much as the Spartans despised Epaminondas and the Thebans. Both men had wrecked their centuries-old practice of apartheid in a matter of weeks. It is a dangerous and foolhardy thing for a slaveholding society to arouse a democracy of such men.
(Snip)



While We Were Marching through Georgia

[foxyladi]

i remember a lot of these things.seems like yesterday:D

[CGP]

This is a recap of the news events that happened around the world on Thursday, November 19th. (Nov. 19)

YouTube- Today in History for Nov. 19

[smiledr]

Thanks again as always.

[CGP]

Thanks again as always.

I enjoy posting these!

[foxyladi]

I enjoy posting these!

so happy to hear that Murray cause i love them.:thumbsup::

[Valin]

i remember a lot of these things.seems like yesterday:D

It's rapidly becoming a long time ago! :)

[CGP]

YouTube- Today in History for Nov. 22

[CGP]

YouTube- Today in History for Nov. 22 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuAcKSQB6u8)

JFK was shot on this day, Nov 22, 1963.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

[foxyladi]

a very sad day for America

[CGP]

YouTube- Today in History for Nov. 26

[CGP]

YouTube- Today in History for Nov. 28

[CGP]

YouTube- Today in History for Nov. 29

[CGP]

YouTube- Today in History for Dec. 3

[Suzan]

Heart transplants have come a long way. The first receipient only lived 18 days.

I wonder what the free speech issue was in 1964. Must have had something to do with the Viet Name war.

[Horizon]

Heart transplants have come a long way. The first receipient only lived 18 days.

I wonder what the free speech issue was in 1964. Must have had something to do with the Viet Name war.

The first heart transplant was done the day I was born. My mom always thought that was pretty exciting.:rolleyes:

[Valin]

Heart transplants have come a long way. The first receipient only lived 18 days.

I wonder what the free speech issue was in 1964. Must have had something to do with the Viet Name war.

Wikipedia...so take it with a grain of salt
Free Speech Movement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Movement)

(Snip)Background

In 1958, activist students organized SLATE, a campus political party, to promote the right of student groups to support off-campus issues. In the fall of 1964, student activists, some of whom had traveled with the Freedom Riders and worked to register African American voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer project, set up information tables on campus and were soliciting donations for civil rights causes.

According to existing rules at the time, fundraising for political parties was limited exclusively to the Democratic and Republican school clubs. There was also a mandatory "loyalty oath" required of faculty, which had led to dismissals and ongoing controversy over academic freedom.

On September 14, 1964, Dean Katherine Towle announced that existing University regulations prohibiting advocacy of political causes or candidates, outside political speakers, recruitment of members, and fundraising by student organizations at the intersection of Bancroft and Telegraph Avenues would be "strictly enforced." (This strip was until then thought to be city property, not campus property.)
(Snip)


If your interested Google: Berkley Free Speech Movement (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=berkley+free+speech+movement&aq=1&oq=Berkley+Free&aqi=g-s1g3g-s1g1)

If you're not interested...Click Here (http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=Woody+Woodpecker+cartoons&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=ELMYS_H6DI3oM8XTgN4C&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQqwQwAA#hl=en&client=firefox-a&channel=s&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=Woody+Woodpecker+cartoons&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=ELMYS_H6DI3oM8XTgN4C&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQqwQwAA&qvid=Woody+Woodpecker+cartoons&vid=-6779784686709171457)

[foxyladi]

it,s always so amazing to take a look back:D

[CGP]

On this day in history: prohibition ends, Mozart dies at age 35, Walt Disney, Little Richard born. (Dec. 5)

YouTube- Today in History for Dec. 5

[Valin]

YouTube- Today in History for Dec. 5 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jp5tzB5GXNg)


Little Richard born.
THE KING

[CGP]

YouTube- Today in History for Dec. 8th

[foxyladi]

thanks Murray:thumbsup:

[CGP]

YouTube- Today in History for Dec. 10th

[foxyladi]

King was a hero:D

[CGP]

YouTube- Today in History for December 11th

[CGP]

Today in History for December 12th: George W. Bush declared president-elect.

YouTube- Today in History for Dec. 12th

Today in History for December 13th: Saddam Hussein captured; Poland begins martial law; Dick van Dyke born.

YouTube- Today in History for Dec. 13th

[foxyladi]

oh i loved:thumbsup: Dick on the Mary Tyler Moore show

[CGP]

YouTube- Today in History for Dec. 16

[Valin]

YouTube- Today in History for Dec. 16 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DxF_nS6i-w)

Great minds think alike! :)

Remember: December 16th, 1944 (http://blogsforvictory.com/2009/12/16/remember-december-16th-1944/)

The Battle of the Bulge - here’s a recent account (http://www.eucom.mil/english/fullstory.asp?art={298A6DFF-63C7-40A6-B508-B192FA3A129D}) about a veteran of the battle:

The crisp, winter sun burned through the fog around noon in the town of Longchamps, Belgium … revealing a wall of German tanks aligned on the snow-capped hillside.

No sooner did 2nd Lt. Everett “Red” Andrews call the target back to his fellow troops in the 377th Parachute Field Artillery Battalion, than he was struck through the mouth by shell fragmentation from the ensuing German onslaught.

“I hold the record for the shortest time spent as a forward observer ever,” he joked, before calmly describing the scene in graphic detail. “I peaked my head above the fox hole to see if we hit the targets, and next thing I knew I was clutching the blood from my mouth in my hands and trying to put it back in me. I thought I was going to die. I was twenty-two years old, I didn’t know. I guess besides my bright red hair at the time, that was another reason folks call me ‘Red.’”

The fragmentation is still lodged in his lower jaw, sixty-five years after forcing his early exit from the seminal World War II Battle of the Bulge, the largest land battle in U.S. Army history.

Andrews received a Purple Heart for his injuries suffered during the battle. He is quick to defer the significance of his service and the harsh conditions he experienced, first mentioning the hardship of the infantrymen he served alongside.

Here is an excellent description of the overall battle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Bulge). It is important that we remember these events, and the men and women who served in them. We are forgetting far too much of our history - we aren’t teaching our children and grand-children just what this country has done, and what it has meant to those who sacrificed the most for it.

Band of Brothers-Part 6(Bastogne)-part(1/7)

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YouTube- Today in History for December 18

[foxyladi]

thanks i find these totally fascinating :D

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On this day in history: Completion of the Louisiana Purchase; South Carolina becomes first state to secede from the north; Preview of "It's a Wonderful Life."

YouTube- Today in History for Dec. 20

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YouTube- Today in History for Dec. 29

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YouTube- Today in History for Dec. 31

[foxyladi]

:thumbsup:I LOVE THESE

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YouTube- Today in History for Jan. 2

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YouTube- Today in History for Jan. 17

[foxyladi]

fascinating:D

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YouTube- Today in History for Jan. 23

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YouTube- Today in History: Jan. 24

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YouTube- Today in History for January 30

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YouTube- Today in History: Feb. 13

[foxyladi]

i really enjoyed that

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On this day in history: Malcom X shot to death; Nixon arrives in China; Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart says, "I have sinned against you my lord." (Feb. 21)

YouTube- Today in History: Feb. 21

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YouTube- Today in History: Feb. 28

[foxyladi]

i remember .wondered if they would ever get that fire out

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YouTube- Today in History for March 6

[Santiago]

Great feature. Thanks.

[CGP]

Great feature. Thanks.

Helps stimulate ageing brain cells - which we all have!!!

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YouTube- Today in History for May 16th

[foxyladi]

thank,s Murray been missing these.:thumbsup:

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YouTube- Today in History May 21

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Highlights of this day in history: Top Nazi official Heinrich Himmler commits suicide; Israel captures fugitive Nazi Adolf Eichmann; Bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde killed; Industrialist John D. Rockefeller dies; Golf legend Sam Snead dies. (May 23)

YouTube- Today in History May 23

[foxyladi]

death comes to the great and to the small..one day it will come for us all.
be good to yourself and each other..

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: Clean-up ends at New York's Ground Zero, months after the Sept. 11th attacks; France's Joan of Arc burned at the stake; Baseball's Cal Ripken, Jr. begins his games streak; Bandleader Benny Goodman born. (May 30)

YouTube- Today in History for May 30th

[foxyladi]

nice roundup...poor Joan..

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: The D-Day invasion of World War II; Israel invades Lebanon to drive out Yasser Arafat; Remains of fugitive Nazi doctor Josef Mengele exhumed in Brazil; First drive-in theater opens in Camden, N.J. (June 6)

YouTube- Today in History for June 6th

[foxyladi]

On the anniversary of D-DAY I would like to

THANK THE GREATEST GENERATION.
May we learn from them the courage to do the right thing**==

[Valin]

The great Marianas turkey shoot.

The Battle of the Philippine Sea (http://www.angelfire.com/fm/odyssey/1.htm)
19-20 June 1944

Pt #1 of 2 F6F Hellcat Marianas Turkey Shoot MATZ

Pt. 2 of 2 F6F Hellcat Marianas Turkey Shoot MATZ

[Valin]

July 5 1946, the bikini, designed by Louis Reard (ray-AHRD') and worn by Micheline Bernardini, made its public debut during a poolside fashion show in Paris.

http://symonsez.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/michelinebernardini.jpg


Who says the French never did anything worth while! :D

[CGP]

Highlights of this day in history: America normalizes diplomatic ties with Vietnam; Aaron Burr mortally wounds Alexander Hamilton in a duel; Skylab makes a fiery return to Earth; Babe Ruth's major league debut; Laurence Olivier dies. (July 11)

YouTube- Today in History for July 11th

[foxyladi]

good roundup.loved the Babe:)

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TWA Flight 800 explodes; Russia's royal family executed; Disneyland opens; Nicaragua's Somoza goes into exile; Apollo and Soyuz link up in space; Baseball's Ty Cobb and jazz great John Coltrane die. (July 17)

YouTube- Today in History for July 17th

[foxyladi]

my college kid is down at Disneyland now..having a blast:D

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YouTube - Today in History for September 12th

[foxyladi]

great roundup..:D

[foxyladi]

i really enjoy these thanks

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YouTube - Today in History for November 30th

Pink Floyd releases its best-selling album "The Wall"; Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Dick Clark born; World Trade Organization's meeting met by 40-thousand protesters; (Nov. 30)

[foxyladi]

people sure love that protest thingy:p

[Brooke]

December 8, 1993: President Clinton signs NAFTA. :thumbsup:

[Brooke]

December 12, 2000: Supreme Court rules on Bush v. Gore. Bush becomes President.

I cannot believe it's been 10 years. Crazy. I remember it like it was yesterday, it was all sorts of nuts in DC that time.

[foxyladi]

10 years.my how time flies:p..

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YouTube - Today in History

[foxyladi]

I remember the shock.at the sudden death of Hank.W.he was one of my favorite singers...

[Alces95]

YouTube - Challenger Disaster Live on CNN

Growing up in NH, meeting her numerous times at school and knowing her kids; this was a very sad day. It was on in every classroom, my teacher was close with her.

Her mission needs completing. We need more science in education.

[Brooke]

YouTube - Challenger Disaster Live on CNN (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4JOjcDFtBE)

Growing up in NH, meeting her numerous times at school and knowing her kids; this was a very sad day. It was on in every classroom, my teacher was close with her.

Her mission needs completing. We need more science in education.

I posted about this on my FB page last night. I was 6 and in first grade but I remember the teachers putting the TVs on and how scary it was for somebody my age. It was the first historical event most people in my generation remember. And I do remember it like it was yesterday. So tragic.

[Alces95]

Just bumping cause the world needs teachers like Christa. And less of what I am bumping this above.