March 23, 2001 – Farewell Mir
March 23, 2001 – BBC News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 23, 2001 – The end of the Mir Space Station. Launched by the then-Soviet Union in 1986, Mir was the first modular Space Station, assembled between…
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Past Daily: A Sound Archive of News, History, Music
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Tag Joseph Stalin
March 18, 1981 – Carol Burnett And The Enquirer
March 18, 1981 – CBS News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 18, 1981 – another contentious, litigious, misplaced priorities kind of day in history. Starting with a threatened Coal strike. Contract talks between the Coal industry and the…
May 8, 1945 – Officially Official – The End Of War In Europe -VE Day Has Arrived.
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Stalin The Terrible – The Life And Times of Joseph Stalin (December 18, 1878 – March 5, 1953)
Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC Radio 4 – Archive Hour: Stalin The Terrible – March 5, 2003 – BBC Radio 4 It’s interesting, and somewhat ironic, that with all the current attention being foist on…
Posturing, Saber Rattling And Remembering Stalin – March 5, 2003
Click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC World Service – Newshour – March 5, 2003 – BBC World Service Looking at the days’ news from a different perspective. This time it’s news for this day in 2003…
A Lot Of Bad Chickens Came Home To Roost Today – September 18, 1939
Click on the link here for Audio Player – News for September 18, 1939 – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Today was not a good day to be in Poland, or Europe for that matter. September 18,…
Events Of 1953 – Past Daily Reference Room: Through A Glass Darkly Edition.
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Year-End 1953 A year of contrasts, 1953 was. Between the Coronation of Princess Elizabeth to the gas chamber execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, to the death of Soviet leader Josef Stalin. It…