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This week's #ArchivistPresents clip features a tavern on a train in 1949. apne.ws/xvUIBEI
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Today marks the 50th anniversary of #EarthDay. Flashback to celebrations in 2000 with remarks from @LeoDiCaprio and @algore. apne.ws/ts8Yw24
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Today is Queen Elizabeth's birthday. Take a look back to 1942 when British Movietone covered the then Princess, celebrating her sixteenth birthday by carrying out her first public engagement.
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#ThisWeekInHistory: Apollo 16’s lunar module landed on the moon (4/20/1972); Clinical trials of the swine flu vaccine began in Washington, D.C. (4/21/1976).
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#OTD in 1961, 1,500 Cuban exiles supported by the U.S. government invaded the Bay of Pigs. Here is British Movietone's report on JFK's remarks regarding the event. apne.ws/TcL5cDZ #MovietoneMoments
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This week's #ArchivistPresents clip features a film on video conferencing in 1967. apne.ws/938SWI0
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#ThisWeekInHistory: President Richard Nixon nominated Harry Blackmun to the U.S. Supreme Court (4/14/1970); Jackie Robinson, baseball’s first black major league player, made his official debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers (4/15/1947). apne.ws/h4zL2SP
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#OTD in 1912, #Titanic set sail on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. Here is a British Movietone ' report on footage of the Titanic in Belfast Lough. apne.ws/XhMXIP8 #MovietoneMoments
This week Queen Elizabeth II gave an address where she mentioned her first-ever broadcast. Here is that speech she made in 1940 as a young princess. apne.ws/3a5ZLjD #ArchivistPresents
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#ThisWeekInHistory: the RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, England, on its ill-fated maiden voyage (4/10/1912); Apollo 13, with astronauts James A. Lovell, Fred W. Haise and Jack Swigert, blasted off on its ill-fated mission to the moon (4/11/1970). apne.ws/oDRdurv
#OTD in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in Memphis, Tennessee. On the following day, King was assassinated. Here is a British Movietone report of the announcement of his assassination. apne.ws/uaEKVz0 #MovietoneMoments
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This week’s #ArchivistPresents clip features a 1937 film on attempts to avoid the flu. apne.ws/ur47BkE
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#ThisWeekInHistory: Pope John Paul II died in his Vatican apartment at age 84 (4/2/2005); the space shuttle Challenger roared into orbit on its maiden voyage (4/4/1983). apne.ws/iHZ2mJr
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#OTD World Theater Day is celebrated to raise the importance of the art form. Here is a Movietone report about the bombed-out church of St. Anne's, which served as a temporary theater space in 1953. apne.ws/FWuvhAs #MovietoneMoments
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This week's #ArchivistPresents features a 1974 film on spring's arrival. apne.ws/oURThoj
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#ThisWeekInHistory: Elvis Presley was inducted into the army in Memphis, TN, before boarding a bus for Fort Chaffee, AR (3/24/1958); MLK led 25,000 people to Montgomery after a five-day march from Selma to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks (3/25/1965).
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#OTD in 1969, John Lennon of the Beatles married Yoko Ono a Japanese avant-garde artist and musician. Here is a British Movietone report from a Beatles concert in Munich, Germany in 1966. apne.ws/76UDJs5 #MovietoneMoments xitter.gq/AP_Archive/status/1241…
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This week's #ArchivistPresents clip features a 1935 film on fashionable hats. apne.ws/mD77MBn
#ThisWeekInHistory: NASA launched #Gemini8 on a mission to rendezvous and dock with Agena (3/16/1966); the Dalai Lama fled Tibet for India (3/17/1959). apne.ws/PmsB5um
#OTD in 1957, a BEA Viscount 701 crashed on the edge of Manchester Ringway airport. Here is a British Movietone report from the 25th anniversary commemorating the years of sterling service the aircraft had given all over the world. apne.ws/9EtmlGO