Category: Day in history
September 24, 2000 – Yugoslavia Heads To The Polls – Police Round Up Suspects In Jakarta Bombing – A Japanese Athlete Makes History At Sydney Olympics
September 24, 2000 – BBC World Service – World Briefing/News – BBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 24, 2000 – Momentous day on the world stage – voters in unprecedented numbers lined up at polling places all over Yugoslavia to vote what many considered to be a
September 21, 1990 – Saddam Hussein: “Prepare For The Mother And Father Of All Battles”.
September 21, 1990 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 21, 1990 – As the wheels of war began to ratchet up louder and faster, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein took to the airwaves, breaking into the running of a popular Iraqi TV comedy to inform everyone
September 13, 1982 – Tragedy In Malaga – No Wrong-Doing For Donovan – Westmoreland Wants A Cool $120 Million –
September 13, 1982 – CBS News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 13, 1982 – Busy news day – with reports of a Chartered DC-10 crashing on takeoff on a flight bound for New York from Malaga Spain, filled with returning American tourists. As the hours
September 12, 2000 – Politics 2000 – Much Ado About Tires – Darryl And The Blackouts – Florence Comes Of Age
September 12, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup; Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 12, 2000 – 2000 was, after all, an election year. And with every election comes the rash of controversial ads giving off one message or another. This time it was a TV ad
Madame Chiang-Kai Shek And The War With Japan -1937 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
Become a Patron! – CBS – Madame Chiang-Kai Shek – Talk From Shanghai – September 11, 1937 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In what became known as the Second Sino-Japanese War (the First, lasting from July 1894-April 1895), The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between
September 10, 1988 – Another Hurricane Named Florence – With Gilbert In The Wings
September 10, 1988 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 10, 1988 – I don’t know if misery really ever liked company, but on this particular September 10, twenty years ago, we were dealing with the affects of Hurricane Florence. Hurricane Florence was the third
September 6, 2000 – Uncomfortable Days On Capitol Hill – Firestone Hearings, File Sharing Verdicts
September 6, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup – Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 6, 2000 – A day of hearings and questions in Court and on Capitol Hill. The ongoing hearings regarding safety issues over tires made by Firestone brought about angry outbursts from members
September 4, 1978 – Going Postal – Camp David Gets Ready – Monsoons Douse India
September 4, 1978 – CBS Radio News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 4, 1978 – A day of breath-holding. The threatened Postal Strike was undergoing negotiations, with the hopes of averting a long, dragged-out work stoppage. More talks between the Postal Union and The Postal
