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February 17, 1942 – Radio Tokyo – news in English – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 17, 1942 – News for this day in 1942 had to do with the fall of Singapore and its occupation by Japanese forces. The Battle of Singapore, also known as the Fall of...
February 9, 1942 – News From Radio Chungking – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 9, 1942 – With distant and crackling sound, fading in and out, Radio Chungking reported that Japanese forces had landed at Singapore. One of many events taking place that day. Asia was wrapped up in...
News for this second day of February in 1989 had much to do with suspicions in the terrorist bombing of PanAm flight 103, which had blown up six weeks earlier over Lockerbie, Scotland. Although British and American investigators had yet to name suspects, it was looking more and more like...
January 29, 1942 – News in English From Radio Tokyo – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 29, 1942 – News for this day, closely monitored by various news outlets, was coming from Tokyo by way of Shortwave broadcasts beamed at the U.S. and Australia. Although the vast majority of...
January 12, 1942 – Radio Tokyo English Service – News broadcasts – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 12, 1942 – News from Radio Tokyo. Chances are, if you were around and at home during the war years you may have missed hearing these broadcasts completely, unless you had a...
January 9, 1942 – News From Radio China – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The Battle of Wuhan, popularly known to the Chinese as the Defense of Wuhan, and to the Japanese as the Capture of Wuhan, was a large-scale battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Engagements took place across vast...
News for this day in 1939 had to do with the sudden scuttling and sinking of the German Battleship Graf Spee, after an intense sea battle off the Uruguayan coast. The battleship, discovered and chased by British Naval forces, sustained considerable damage and was granted safe harbor by Uruguay, who...
December 1945 – Report from Don Bell, Mutual correspondent in Tokyo – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Once the War was declared over on both fronts, the painful process of rebuilding would take place. But as much as history has recorded the grand, sweeping efforts of changing political landscapes, as...
Marvin Gaye – Live at Budokan, Tokyo – November 13, 1979 – NHK-FM Japan – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Marvin Gaye to help the festivities along tonight. Recorded live at Budokan in Tokyo by NHK-FM on November 13, 1979. From Wikipedia: Marvin Gaye has been called “the number-one purveyor...
October 23, 1978 – Depending on your age, you were either very interested in the ongoing and almost-there Middle-East Peace negotiations, or the news that Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious had attempted suicide and was rushed to a hospital in New York. The Middle-East news was potentially huge. Egypt was...
