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Great Moments of the 20th Century

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1.1Inventor Marconi Talks About Sending the First Transatlantic Radio Transmission (1936)Guglielmo Marconi1:02
1.2The Double-Sided Record New From the Columbia Graphophone Company Offers Improved Sound and Durability (1904)[unknown]1:59
1.3Inventor Thomas Edison Announces the Age of Electricity (1908)Thomas Edison1:03
1.4Commander Robert E. Peary Expounds on the Allure of Arctic Exploration (1909)Robert E. Peary0:47
1.5Survivor Gives Harrowing Account of the RMS Titanic Disaster (1936)[unknown]2:25
1.6Presidential Candidate Woodrow Wilson Makes the Case for a Living Wage (1912)Woodrow Wilson1:35
1.7British Member of Parliament Horatio Bottomley Asserts That We Are Witnessing That Greatest Armageddon (1915)Horatio Bottomley0:54
1.8American Federation of Labor President Samuel Gompers Explains U.S. Efforts in World War I (1916)Samuel Gompers1:12
1.9Blackjack Commander of American Expeditionary Forces in France General J.J. ‘Blackjack’ Pershing Asks For… (1917)General J.J. "Black Jack" Pershing0:32
1.10Former Ambassador to Germany James Gerard Challenges German-Americans’ Loyalty in the Face of Conflict (1917)James Gerard Watson0:50
1.11News Report: Talking Film an Explanation of Inventor Lee De Forest’s Principles of Talking Film (1922)[no artist]0:41
1.12Attorney Clarence Darrow Proclaims ‘The Real Cause of Crime Is 'Poverty, Ignorance, Hard Luck, and…’ (1924)Clarence Darrow1:35
1.13Humorist Will Rogers Muses on His Entry in the Congressional Record (1925)Will Rogers1:40
1.14Aviator Charles Lindbergh Reflects on the First Ever Transatlantic Flight (1927)Charles Lindbergh0:58
1.15As the Threat of War Once Again Looms Over Europe Winston Churchill Asks ‘What Are We to Do?’ (1934)Winston Churchill1:50
1.16Expatriate Author Henry Miller Reads From His Controversial Book ‘Tropic of Cancer’ (1969)Henry Miller0:58
1.17Louisiana Senator Huey Long Criticizes the Current Roosevelt Administration (1935)Huey Long1:19
1.18Indian Leader Mohandas Gandhi Shares His Beliefs (1935)Mohandas Gandhi0:40
1.19President Franklin D Roosevelt Visits Dust Bowl States and Vows to Save the American Farming Family (1936)Franklin D. Roosevelt1:45
1.20Physicist Albert Einstein Asserts That Modern Man Is Detached From the World Because of Technology (1936)Albert Einstein2:31
1.21King Edward VIII Announces His Abdication of the Throne and Declares Allegiance to His Brother, King George VI (1936)King Edward VIII1:17
1.22News Report: Disaster News Coverage of the Hindenburg Airship Disaster (1937)[no artist]1:33
1.23News Report: The Old Man and the Mouse: Mickey Mouse Turns 10 Years Old (1937)[no artist]1:03
1.24Philip Civil Rights Activist Asa Philip Randolph Pleas for Social and Racial Justice (1937)Asa Philip Randolph1:02
1.25News Report: Aviator Howard Hughes and Crew Successfully Complete World’s First Transglobal Flight (1938)[no artist]1:08
1.26Sigmund Freud Discusses Psychoanalysis (1938)Sigmund Freud1:16
1.27Dramatist and Critic George Bernard Shaw Defines the Pacifist Movement (1938)George Bernard Shaw2:01
1.28President Franklin D Roosevelt Commemorates the Nations of the World at the New York World’s Fair (1939)Franklin D. Roosevelt1:37
1.29Author Margaret Mitchell Expresses Gratitude Over Winning Pulitzer Prize for ‘Gone With the Wind’ (1939)Margaret Mitchell0:40
1.30News Report: London Evacuation Broadcaster Edward R Murrow Reports Plans for the Evacuation of Children From London (1939)Edward R Murrow1:38
1.31Nazi Germany Announces Blitzkrieg Invasion of Poland (1939)[no artist]1:15
1.32Nazi Germany Denies Aggression Toward Poland Claiming Self- Defence (1939)[no artist]1:26
1.33British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain Declares a State of War (1939)Neville Chamberlain0:46
1.34German Chancellor Adolf Hitler Condemns Polish Aggression Toward Germans (1939)Adolf Hitler2:17
1.35Italian Fascist Leader Benito Mussolini Declares War on the Allied Powers (1940)Benito Mussolini1:54
1.36American Journalist William L. Shirer Reports on French Armistice Signing (1940)William L. Shirer1:36
1.37Labor Leader John L. Lewis Supports Wendell Willkie for President (1940)John L. Lewis1:53
1.38President Franklin D Roosevelt Announces the First Peacetime Draft Lottery (1940)Franklin D. Roosevelt0:58
1.39President Franklin D Roosevelt Declares War on Japan (1941)Franklin D. Roosevelt1:13
1.40Mayor Fiorello Laguardia Publicizes the New Convenient New York (1942)Fiorello LaGuardia1:25
1.41World War II: Announcement of Allied Invasion of North Africa (1942)[no artist]0:27
1.42President Franklin D Roosevelt Reports the Allied Armies Liberation of Rome (1944)Franklin D. Roosevelt0:23
1.43World War II: First Allied Planes Leave England Leading D-Day Invasion (1944)[no artist]1:25
1.44World War II: Report of U.S. Flag Raised Over Island of Iwo Jima (1945)[no artist]1:14
1.45World War II: Announcement of Allied Forces Crossing the Rhine River (1945)[no artist]0:50
1.46World War II: Report of German Army’s Unconditional Surrender in Italy (1945)[no artist]0:47
1.47World War II: Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide (1945)[no artist]0:40
1.48World War II: V-E Day Report of German Surrender Ending the War in Europe (1945)[no artist]1:14
1.49World War II: V-E Day Celebration in Times Square New York City (1945)[no artist]1:54
1.50President Harry Truman Signs the United Nations Charter (1945)Harry S. Truman1:20
1.51News Report: Atomic Bomb Report of the U.S. Having Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima (1945)[no artist]1:09
1.52News Report: V-J Day Report of Japanese Surrender Ending the War in the Pacific (1945)[no artist]0:53
1.53British Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill Declares Eastern Europe Behind an Iron Curtain (1946)Winston Churchill1:01
1.54News Report: U.S. Census Reveals Postwar Infant Population Boom (1947)[no artist]1:09
1.55Secretary of State George C Marshall Announces Plan to Revitalize Postwar European Economy (1947)George C. Marshall1:32
1.56News Report: Soviet Blockade of Berlin Thwarted by U.S Air Force Efforts (1948)[no artist]0:58
1.57United Nations Representative Abba Eban Comments on Israel’s Nationhood (1948)Abba Eban1:19
1.58President Harry Truman Mocks Naysayer Journalists in Election Victory Speech (1948)Harry S. Truman1:50
1.59News Report: White House Issues Statement That Soviet Union Has Atomic Bomb (1949)[no artist]0:15
1.60News Report: Pennant Clinched Bobby Thompson Secures New York Giants’ National League Pennant Win With Game-Clinching Home Run (1951)[no artist]1:33
1.61Baseball Great Joe Dimaggio Announces His Retirement (1951)Joe Dimaggio0:36
1.62Vice-Presidential Candidate Richard M Nixon Defends Himself Against Allegations of Mishandled Campaign (1952)Richard M. Nixon1:28
1.63News Report: Stalin Dies Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin Dies at Age 73 (1953)[no artist]0:26
2.1News Report: Atomic Bomb Testing Continues (1953)[no artist]1:59
2.2News Report: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain (1953)[no artist]0:53
2.3News Report: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Are Denied Clemency (1953)[no artist]2:22
2.4President Dwight D Eisenhower Announces End to Korean Conflict (1953)Dwight D. Eisenhower0:46
2.5Author Ray Bradbury Provides More Positive Outlook on Future Than His Book ‘Fahrenheit 451’ Suggests (1958)Ray Bradbury1:04
2.6President Dwight D Eisenhower Assures There Will Be Further Development of Polio Vaccine (1954)Dwight D. Eisenhower1:06
2.7News Report: Congressmen Provide Conflicting Viewpoint on School Desegregation (1954)[no artist]1:59
2.8Senator Joseph McCarthy Presides at House Unamerican Activities Hearings (1954)Joseph McCarthy2:34
2.9New York Giants Manager Leo Derocher States Strong Leadership Is a Baseball Team's Top Asset (1954)Leo Durocher1:14
2.10Author Ernest Hemingway Delivers Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (1954)Ernest Hemingway1:21
2.11Cleveland Disc Jockey Alan Freed at the Top of His Form Hosting ‘The Moondog Show’ (1954)Alan Freed0:54
2.12Ensure Your Safety With the Purchase of This Nuclear Survival Course Record Album; Supplies Are Limited (1954)[unknown]1:49
2.13James Dean Discusses His Craft on the Set of ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ (1954)James Dean0:57
2.14News Report: Music Experts Squabble Over the Meaning of Rock and Roll (1956)[no artist]2:15
2.15News Report: Baseball Yankees Pitcher Don Larsen Delivers First Perfect Game in World Series History (1956)[no artist]1:54
2.16News Report: Hungarian Revolt Crushed by Soviets (1956)[no artist]1:10
2.17News Report: What Do We Know About Cuban Revolutionary Fidel Castro (1957)[no artist]1:04
2.18Althea Gibson Becomes First Black Athlete to Win Wimbledon Tennis Championship (1957)Althea Gibson0:26
2.19President Dwight D Eisenhower Denounces Arkansas Efforts to Enforce School Segregation (1957)Dwight D. Eisenhower1:07
2.20Black Politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr Speeks Out on Notion of Freedom (1957)Adam Clayton Powell, Jr1:54
2.21News Report: United States Successfully Launches First Orbiting Satellite ‘Explorer I’ (1958)[no artist]1:06
2.22Author Lorraine Hansberry Discusses Her Play ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ (1959)Lorraine Hansberry1:04
2.23News Report: NASA Introduces First Seven Astronauts for Project Mercury (1959)[no artist]0:55
2.24News Report: Cuban Premier Fidel Castro Visits U.S. for First Time (1959)[no artist]1:08
2.25Author Allan Ginsberg and Anthropologist Margaret Mead Discuss Origins of the Term ‘Beat Generation’ (1959)Allen Ginsberg & Margaret Mead2:17
2.26Candidates Debate Presidential Candidates John F Kennedy and Richard M Nixon Square Off in Televised Debate (1960)John F. Kennedy & Richard M. Nixon2:12
2.27President-Elect John F Kennedy Wins Narrow-Margin Victory (1960)John F. Kennedy0:56
2.28President Dwight D Eisenhower Delivers ‘Military Industrial Complex’ Farewell Speech (1961)Dwight D. Eisenhower1:14
2.29President John F Kennedy Addresses Nation With Inaugural Speech (1961)John F. Kennedy1:04
2.30News Report: Bay of Pigs Invasion Denounced at United Nations Address (1961)[no artist]0:42
2.31Federal Communications Commission Chairman Decries Television as a Vast Wasteland (1961)Newton Minow1:19
2.32News Report: The Birth of the Berlin Wall (1961)[no artist]0:43
2.33News Report: Launch of the Telstar Satellite Ushers in Age of High Speed Communications Technology (1962)[no artist]1:09
2.34Author John Steinbeck Discusses Winning Nobel Prize for Literature (1962)John Steinbeck1:20
2.35News Report: Debut of the World’s First Talking/Singing Computer (1962)[no artist]0:58
2.36President John F Kennedy Visits the Berlin Wall and Rallies Anti-Communist Support (1963)John F. Kennedy2:19
2.37News Report: President John F Kennedy Assassinated (1963)[no artist]3:52
2.38News Report: JFK Assassination Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald Is Shot (1963)[no artist]3:19
2.39News Report: North Vietnamese Vessels Attack United States Navy in Gulf of Tonkin (1964)[no artist]1:16
2.40Activist Mario Savio Speaks Out on University of California at Berkeley ‘Educational Tyranny’ (1964)Mario Savio1:34
2.41News Report: Reports Confirm Soviet Communist Party Personnel Shake-Up (1964)[no artist]1:17
2.42Activist Whitney Young Talks in Selma Alabama on the Importance of the Black Vote (1965)Whitney Young0:45
2.43News Report: Racial Violence Breaks Out in Watts District of Los Angeles (1965)[no artist]1:16
2.44News Report: Vietnamese Radio Propaganda Queen ‘Hanoi Hannah’ Broadcasts to United States Troops (1966)[no artist]0:27
2.45Dr Christiaan Barnard Performs First Human Heart Transplant (1967)Christiaan Barnard1:30
2.46Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir Articulates Israel’s Need for Peace (1967)Golda Meir0:36
2.47Senator Robert Kennedy Announces Presidential Candidacy (1968)Robert F. Kennedy0:57
2.48President Lyndon B Johnson Declines Nomination for Re-Election (1968)Lyndon B. Johnson0:38
2.49Martin Luther King Jr Stirs Memphis Audience With ‘Mountain Top’ Speech (1968)Martin Luther King, Jr.1:02
2.50News Report: Senator Robert Kennedy Is Assassinated (1968)[no artist]1:20
2.51News Report: Soviets Invade Czechoslovakia (1968)[no artist]0:35
2.52News Report: Riots Break Out at 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention (1968)[no artist]2:07
2.53News Report: Apollo 8 Astronauts Conduct Christmas Eve Broadcast (1968)[no artist]0:35
2.54Mickey Mantle Gives Farewell Speech to Yankees Fans (1969)Mickey Mantle0:39
2.55Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong Broadcasts Man’s First Steps on Moon (1969)Neil Armstrong0:14
2.56Beatle Paul McCartney Refutes Rumors of His Death (1969)Paul McCartney0:33
2.57News Report: Thousands of Protesters Show Support on Vietnam Moratorium Day (1969)[no artist]0:48
2.58Vice President Spiro Agnew Lashes Out Against ‘The Media Elite’ (1969)Spiro Agnew1:46
3.1Commander James A. Lovell, Jr Reports From Apollo 13: ‘Houston We’ve Had a Problem’ (1970)James A. Lovell, Jr0:15
3.2National Voting Age Is Lowered to 18 (1970)[news report]0:40
3.3New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug Testimonial on the Equal Rights Amendment (1970)Bella Abzug0:47
3.4National Organization of Women Founder Betty Friedan Speaks Out During the ‘Women’s Strike for Equal Rights’ (1970)Betty Friedan2:10
3.5President Richard M. Nixon Announces Plans to Visit Communist China (1971)Richard M. Nixon0:24
3.6Future British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Cites the Ability of Women to Succeed in Government (1971)Margaret Thatcher1:13
3.7United Nations Officially Recognizes Peoples Republic of China (1971)[news report]1:13
3.8Governor Ronald Reagan Views George Wallace Assassination Attempt as Outgrowth of Hatred in America (1972)Ronald Reagan1:39
3.9Olympic Athletes Are Taken Hostage in Munich (1972)[news report]1:02
3.10Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Announces ‘Peace Is at Hand’ In Vietnam (1972)Henry Kissinger1:00
3.11Court Decision Legalizes Abortion in Roe v Wade (1973)[news report]1:28
3.12Members of American Indian Movement Take Over Wounded Knee South Dakota (1973)[news report]0:34
3.13Dispute at White House Over Release of Watergate Tapes (1973)[news report]1:06
3.14President Richard M Nixon Concedes ‘One Can Only Be Angry With Those He Respects’ (1973)Richard M. Nixon2:27
3.15President Richard M Nixon’s Resignation ‘I Have Never Been a Quitter’ (1974)Richard M. Nixon1:13
3.16President Richard M Nixon Bids Farewell to His White House Staff (1974)Richard M. Nixon1:53
3.17President Gerald Ford Gives Inaugural Speech (1974)Gerald Ford1:12
3.18South Vietnam Surrenders to Vietcong (1975)[news report]0:36
3.19Exiled Russian Novelist Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn Addresses Harvard Graduating Class (1975)Александр Солженицын0:52
3.20Astronaut Thomas Stafford and Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov Seal Joint Mission With Handshake in Space (1975)[news report]0:54
3.21Egyptian President Anwar El-Sadat Gives Goodwill Address to Congress (1975)Anwar El-Sadat1:37
3.22Congresswoman Barbara Jordan Becomes First Black Woman to Deliver the Keynote Address at the Democratic Convention (1976)[news report]1:02
3.23Viking I Travels 500 Million Miles to Land on Mars (1976)[news report]0:54
3.24Former Beatle John Lennon Finally Wins Residency Status in United States (1976)John Lennon1:37
3.25Outbreak of Legionnaires Disease (1976)[news report]0:50
3.26Space Shuttle Enterprise Passes First Flight Test (1977)[news report]1:15
3.27Elvis Presley Dies at 42 (1977)[news report]0:42
3.28The Observations of San Francisco Politician Harvey Milk (1978)Harvey Milk0:30
3.29Pope John Paul I Dies Suddenly (1978)[news report]0:44
3.30San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Dianne Feinstein Discloses the Murders of Mayor George (1978)Dianne Feinstein0:29
3.31President Jimmy Carter Discusses Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty (1979)Jimmy Carter0:37
3.32Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh Advises Citizens of Possible Radioactivity After Three Mile Island (1979)Dick Thornburgh0:37
3.33Entrepreneur Ted Turner Officially Inaugurates the Cable News Network (1980)Ted Turner0:54
3.34Labor Unrest in Poland (1980)[news report]0:16
3.35President Jimmy Carter Announces Release of 52 American Hostages in Iran (1981)Jimmy Carter0:34
3.36Conflicting Announcement of the Assassination Attempt on President Ronald Reagan (1981)[news report]1:47
3.37Assassin Wounds Pope John Paul II (1981)[news report]1:01
3.38President Ronald Reagan Lays Down the Law to Striking Air Traffic Controllers (1981)Ronald Reagan0:31
3.39Britain and Argentina at War Over Falkland Islands (1982)[news report]1:10
3.40Soviets Down Korean Airlines Flight 007 (1983)[news report]0:25
3.41Report of U.S. Invasion From Grenada (1983)[news report]0:26
3.42Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (1986)[news report]2:34
3.43President Ronald Reagan Denies Allegations of Secret Deals With Iran (1986)Ronald Reagan1:03
3.441988 Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Lloyd Bentsen to Republican Candidate Dan Quayle ‘Senator, You’re No Jack Kennedy’ (1988)Lloyd Bentsen1:25
3.45President Ronald Reagan Envisions ‘The Shining City’ (1989)Ronald Reagan1:01
3.46Report of Chinese Government Response to Student Revolt From Tiananmen Square Beijing (1989)[news report]1:44
3.47Operation Desert Storm Begins (1991)[news report]1:37
3.48Law Professor Anita Hill Testifies Against Judge Clarence Thomas in Senate Confirmation Hearings (1991)Anita Hill2:31
3.49Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Gives His Testimony (1991)Clarence Thomas2:06
3.50Verdict Observations About the Rodney King Verdict and Ensuing Riots in Los Angeles (1992)[news report]1:38
3.51California State Senator Diane Watson Seeks Culpability for the Los Angeles Riots (1992)Diane Watson1:13
3.52Motorist Rodney King Implores ‘Can’t We All Get Along’ (1992)Rodney King0:11
3.53FBI Tactical Briefing Concerning the Branch Davidians Compound in Waco Texas (1993)[unknown]1:23
3.54Nelson Mandela Speaks on Eve of South Africa’s Presidential Election (1994)Nelson Mandela1:33
3.55President Bill Clinton Condemns Bombing on Oklahoma City (1995)Bill Clinton0:29
3.56Verdict Reading of OJ Simpson Trial Verdict (1995)[news report]1:32
3.57Noa Ben-Artziphilosof Gives Eulogy for Grandfather Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (1995)Noa Ben-Artziphilosof1:04
3.58General Colin Powell Declines Bid for Presidency (1995)Colin Powell1:26
3.59Unabomber Suspect Theodore Kaczynski Is Apprehended (1996)[news report]0:36
3.60Richard Jewell Denies Being Responsible for the Bomb Explosion at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta (1996)Richard Jewell0:47
3.61British Scientist Ian Wilmut Discusses Human Cloning (1997)Ian Wilmut2:08
3.62Britain Returns Conservatorship of Hong Kong to China (1997)[news report]1:06
3.63Diana Princess of Wales Dies in Car Crash (1997)[news report]0:29
3.64Linda Tripp Records Monica Lewinski (1997)Monica Lewinski2:26
3.65President Bill Clinton Avows ‘I Did Not Have Sex With That Woman Miss Lewinski’ (1998)Bill Clinton0:41
3.66President Bill Clinton Testifies His Explanation Was ‘Legally Accurate’ (1998)Bill Clinton0:31
3.67Mark McGwire Breaks Roger Maris’ Single Season Home Run Record (1998)[news report]0:29
3.68U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan Appeals for ‘Peace Over War’ In Kosovo (1999)Kofi Annan0:52
3.69U.S. Returns Convervatorship of the Panama Canal Back to Panama (1999)[news report]0:41
3.70Record Breaking Stock Exchange Frenzy Continues (1999)[news report]0:28
3.71President Bill Clinton Observes the Dawning of the New Millennium (1999)Bill Clinton2:16
3.72The Celebration of New Year’s Eve 1999 Times Square (1999)[news report]0:24

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