Blog Archives

April 4, 1968: Dr Martin Luther King Jr is Assassinated!!!

Posted on April 4, 2011 by Action for Freedom — 1 Comment

Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation…

Dec 25, 1914: Enemies Exchange Christmas Greetings

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

On and around Christmas Day 1914, the sounds of rifles firing and shells exploding fade in a number of places along the Western Front in favor of holiday celebrations in the trenches and gestures of goodwill between enemies. Starting on…

Tagged with: 1914, Christmas, Christmas truce, December 25, Germans, Holiday, Music, This Day in History, This Day In History, Trench, Western Front, World War I
Posted in Uncategorized

Dec 25, 2000: Christmas Party in China Turns Deadly

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

A Christmas party at an unlicensed disco is the site of a tragic fire that kills more than 300 people in Luoyang, China, on this day in 2000. It was the deadliest fire in China since a December 1994 fire…

Tagged with: 2000, China, Christmas, December 25, Holiday, National Public Radio, Nina Totenberg, Opinions, This Day in History, This Day In History, United States Department of Defense, Xinjiang
Posted in Uncategorized

Dec 25, 1941: Bing Crosby Introduces “White Christmas” to the World

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Action for Freedom — Leave a comment

“White Christmas,” written by the formidable composer and lyricist Irving Berlin receives its world premiere on this day in 1941 on Bing Crosby’s weekly NBC radio program, The Kraft Music Hall. It went on to become one of the most…