A Royal Wedding – The world watched – History waited. A day of pomp and ceremony, this July 29th in 1981. Hundreds of thousands of joyful Britons, taking a break from the strains of a difficult summer, lined the route of the royal wedding procession to cheer their crown prince
Tiberius Minnows- Live at Belfast Empire (+sessions) – 1996 Subscribers get perks, don’t you know? Become a Patron! Tiberius Minnows in concert tonight. Starting off with a few radio session tracks, I believe recorded for the RTÉ Network in 1996. I confess to just recently being introduced to this band
– BBC World Service – Newsdesk – April 10, 1998 – BBC World Service After decades of violence, untold numbers dead and two years of talks, it was looking very much like Peace would finally come to Northern Ireland. On this April 10th in 1998, news spread that a tentative
CBS World News Roundup – October 21, 1994 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News of sweeping gestures, this October 21st in 1994. Beginning with news of a five year prison sentence handed down to Rosario Ames, wife of convicted CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames, for her role in assisting
A day of sweeping contrasts, this October 20th, 1999 From Jakarta – Parliament elected an ailing but revered Muslim moderate as Indonesia’s new leader today, hours after President B.J. Habibic suffered a humiliating political setback and d withdrew from the racc. Abdurrahman Wahid (pronounced Ahb-door-RAH-man Wah-heed), whose political shrewdness helped
October 4, 1964 – ABC Radio News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 4, 1964 – A Sunday; and by all accounts, a reasonably quiet day. Hurricane Hilda had been reduced to a tropical storm, dissipating after reaching land, but not without causing damage throughout the
Not so much a cause for alarm, an ominous glimpse of things to come or a cautionary tale, but rather a historic example of how things go wrong and protests escalate as the result. This May 6th in 1981 had much to do with the death of IRA Hunger Striker
We need subscribers: Become a Patron! – NBC Nightly News (audio version) – January 30, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day in 1972 began with reports from Northern Ireland of deadly force used against demonstrators by British Army Paratroopers, killing 13 civilians and wounding some
And a year to the day after the “official” VE Day end to the War in Europe, the creeping Cold War was making its presence known on this May 8th in 1946. As Europe continued to dig itself out of the wreckage of five years of war, new ominous clouds
– January 30, 1973 – NBC Nightly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 30, 1973 – a day which would see the last two figures in the Watergate break-in plot were convicted and waiting on sentencing. G. Gordon Liddy and James McCord, both were convicted of conspiracy, burglary
