Time Rewind

THIS DAY IN MUSIC, January 18, 1969:
🎤 Marvin Gaye is midway through a seven-week ride atop the Billboard singles chart with “I Heard It Through the Grapevine.” The track becomes Motown Records’s biggest-selling hit at that time.
🖌 Album art courtesy of Tamla/Motown Records
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📅 THIS DAY IN HISTORY, January 18, 1919:
Leaders of the Allied powers — the United States, France, Great Britain and Italy — convene in Paris, France to begin the long and complex negotiations that would pave the way for the end of World War I. The Paris Peace Conference leads to creation of the League of Nations, an international peacekeeping organization.
📸 Pictured (L to R) at the conference: British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau and U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. (Library of Congress photo)
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A big-city mayor is busted! Plus, firsts for The Beatles, Barry Manilow and a primetime spin-off. It's Time Rewind for January 18th.
🎬 Video montage edited by Media Arts student Josephine Rabago at Ball High School in Galveston, Texas.
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Time Rewind January 18 A big-city mayor is busted! Plus, firsts for The Beatles, Barry Manilow and a primetime spin-off. It's "Time Rewind" for January 18th.🎬 Video montage edited...

THIS DAY IN MUSIC, January 17, 1969:
🎸🎤 Led Zeppelin’s self-titled debut album, featuring a stylized photo of the exploding Hindenburg airship on the cover, is released to a lackluster reception. The album, which includes the tracks “Good Times Bad Times” and “Dazed and Confused,” eventually climbs to No. 10 and goes on to help shape the evolution of hard rock and heavy metal. Is this classic part of YOUR music collection?
🖌 Album art courtesy of Atlantic Records
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY, January 17, 1950:
💰💰 Eleven Boston bandits stage what comes to be called the “crime of the century,” the “perfect crime” and the “fabulous Brink’s robbery.” The group steals more than $2M (the equivalent of about $29M today) from the Brink's Armored Car depot in Boston. Six years later, the suspects are finally arrested — just days before the statute of limitations for the heist was to expire.
📸 Authorities question Brink's employees at the crime scene on the night of the robbery. (Herald-Traveler photo)
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🔴 BREAKING NEWS: Yet another passing from the entertainment world. Joan Plowright, acting legend of stage and screen and Laurence Olivier’s widow, has died at the age of 95.

Tony Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, widow of Laurence Olivier, dies at 95 Plowright won a Tony Award and nominations for an Oscar and an Emmy. She was awarded the title of dame by Queen Elizabeth II in 2004.

Hello, Corvette! Ahoy, Nautilus! Plus, Mother Nature jolts LA. Time Rewind turns it back for January 17th.
🎬 Video montage edited by Media Arts student Josephine Rabago at Ball High School in Galveston, Texas.
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Time Rewind January 17 Hello, Corvette! Ahoy, Nautilus! Plus, Mother Nature jolts LA. "Time Rewind" takes you back to the events of January 17th.🎬 Video montage edited by Media Ar...

THIS DAY IN MUSIC, January 16, 1938:
🎼 Acclaimed clarinetist and band leader Benny Goodman (a.k.a. “The King of Swing”) makes history when he takes the stage at New York’s Carnegie Hall. It not only marks the first time jazz is played in the hallowed music venue, but the first time a racially integrated ensemble performs.
📷 Photo credit: Carnegie Hall Archives
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🔴 BREAKING NEWS: David Lynch, the visionary director of such cult classics as "Twin Peaks" and "Blue Velvet," has died at 78.

David Lynch, visionary filmmaker behind 'Twin Peaks' and 'Mulholland Drive,' dies at 78 David Lynch has died at 78. The filmmaker was celebrated for his uniquely dark vision in such movies as “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and the TV series “Twin Peaks.”

THIS DAY IN HISTORY, January 16, 1919:
🍷🍻❌ The 18th Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, prohibiting the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes.” Known as Prohibition, the alcohol ban takes effect one year and one day later — on January 17, 1920 — and remains the law of the land until 1933 when it is repealed.
📷: New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach (right) oversees agents as they pour liquor into the sewer following a raid, circa 1920. (Library of Congress photo)
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🔴 BREAKING NEWS: Legendary broadcaster and former big-league player Bob Uecker, affectionately known as "Mr. Baseball," has died at the age of 90 following a battle with cancer.

Bob Uecker, beloved baseball announcer and 'Major League' actor, dies at 90 The Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster enjoyed mocking his unremarkable playing career that preceded a legendary life behind the mic.

The U.S. goes to war, murder strikes the Cosby household and one of The Beatles achieves solo success. Journey to the past as Time Rewind recalls the events of January 16th.
🎬 Video montage edited by Graciela Mejia at Ball High School in Galveston, Texas.
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Time Rewind January 16 The U.S. goes to war, murder strikes the Cosby household and one of The Beatles achieves solo success. Journey to the past as "Time Rewind" recalls the event...

THIS DAY IN MUSIC, January 15, 1972:
🎸🎤 Don McLean's classic “American Pie” reaches No. 1 on the Billboard singles chart and holds the top spot for four weeks.
🖌 Album cover courtesy of United Artists Records
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY, January 15, 2009:
🛬 In what comes to be known as the “Miracle on the Hudson,” a US Airways passenger jet makes an emergency landing in the frigid Hudson River between Manhattan and New Jersey after a bird strike disables its engines on take-off from LaGuardia Airport. All 155 passengers and crew of the Airbus A-320 survive, and pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger is hailed as a hero. In 2016, the story is made into a movie directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Tom Hanks as “Sully.”
📸 Pictured: After the splash-landing of Flight 1549 in 41-degree Hudson waters, NYPD and NYFD boats and privately operated ferries surround the aircraft to assist with rescue efforts (courtesy of NYPD News).
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🏈 It's the kickoff of a new pro football tradition and primetime redefines "cool." We pack those stories and more in the January 15th edition of Time Rewind.
🎬 Video montage edited by Media Arts student Tea Moreno at Ball High School in Galveston, Texas.
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Time Rewind January 15 🏈 It's the kickoff of a new pro football tradition and primetime redefines "cool." We pack those stories and more in the January 15th edition of "Time Rewin...

📺 A broadcast institution is born, America's "power couple" tie the knot and a legendary Motown act signs off. It's Time Rewind for January 14th.
🎬 Video montage edited by Media Arts student Naydelin Ramos at Ball High School in Galveston, Texas.
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Time Rewind January 14 📺 A broadcast institution is born, America's "power couple" tie the knot and a legendary Motown act signs off. It's "Time Rewind" for January 14.🎬 Video mo...

📻 The world's first radio broadcast carries the voice of an opera legend and an aviation catastrophe strikes Washington, D.C. It's Time Rewind for January 13th.
🎬 Video montage edited by Media Arts student Miles Nepomuceno at Ball High School in Galveston, Texas.
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Time Rewind January 13 📻 The world's first radio broadcast carries the voice of an opera legend and an aviation catastrophe strikes Washington, D.C. It's "Time Rewind" for January...