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Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Women's Rights Women's Suffrage The Women's Movement MP4 Download DVD
Today, November 25, 2025

November 25: International Day For The Elimination Of Violence Against Women: -- A day that promotes respect and dignity for women, a vital movement that strives to create a world where every woman feels safe, valued, and empowered. On November 25, 1960, the Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic were assassinated by henchmen of dictator Rafael Trujillo. The sisters, who had been active in movements against the Trujillo regime, were beaten and strangled to death, then placed in a Jeep that was driven off a mountainous road in order to make their deaths appear accidental. In December 1999, the United Nations General Assembly designated November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The date marks the beginning of 16 days of remembrance and activism, culminating in International Human Rights Day. According to a report by the United Nations, 19 percent of women between the ages of 15 and 49 years of age have experienced physical and/or sexual violence "by an intimate partner." In some cases, this violence ends in the women's death. Violence against women is a problem that has been accepted and condoned all throughout human history. The notion that women were property that could be owned by a man during Ancient Roman times and even 18th century English laws that allowed a man to "discipline" his wife and children with a stick or whip are both examples of the tragedy of the ways women have been oppressed. It has been a fight for many centuries for women to be able to function in western society with equal rights in their homes and in the workplace, without being subjected to violent acts from men. The 18th and 19th centuries were important times for the advancement of women's rights. By 1920, the United States had made it illegal for a man to physically abuse his wife, but it wasn't until the 1970s that society began to truly give attention to the problem. The 1994 Violence Against Women Act, signed by President Bill Clinton, was passed in the US to provide services and care for women who were victims, as well as funding for prosecution of perpetrators of domestic violence. While many strides have been made in recent decades, it is important to remember that violence against women is prevalent all around the world. And in come countries where women have few rights, violence against them is still legal or often culturally condoned. The International Day for the Elimination of the Violence Against Women was established with the purpose of raising awareness about the fact that women locally and around the world are subject to violence including domestic abuse, rape, stalking and more. The hope is that this day will bring the problem of violence against women to the forefront of people's minds and continue to offer awareness, prevention, assistance and solutions all throughout the year. When the Mirabal sisters acted as resistance fighters and were willing to speak out against the abusive government of the Dominican Republic, they were brutally beaten and murdered on November 25, 1960. Then in 1981, when the observance of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women began, the date was set in honor and memory of these remarkable women. Women's activists began celebrating this day annually and the event grew throughout that 1980s. The purpose of the day was meant to raise awareness for and show opposition to the problem of violence against women, whether in their own homes as victims of domestic abuse, or in other situations. By the 1990s, violence against women became an important part of initiatives of the United Nations. And in the year 2000, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women was declared as an official observance. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/women39s-suffrage-amp-the-women39s-movement-dvd-mp4-usb-39394.html

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Today, November 25, 2025

November 25: Shopping Reminder Day: -- A day for you to do your shopping at EarthStation1 MediaOutlet! After you've enjoyed the turkey and cranberry sauce on Thanksgiving, it's time to make sure you are fully prepared for Christmas, Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa and finish any last-minute shopping. If you have holiday shopping to complete, this day is here to remind you that 1) there are 30 days until Christmas; 2) there are 31 days until the start of Kwanzaa; and 3) Hanukkah is coming sooner than you think! We're not 100% sure about the origins of Shopping Reminder Day, but it's likely linked to Black Friday. The first recorded use of the term 'Black Friday' was applied not to holiday shopping but the financial crisis: specifically, the crash of the U.S. gold market on September 24, 1869. Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, two notoriously unmerciful stockbrokers on Wall Street, worked together to buy up as much of the U.S.'s gold as they could, hoping to drive the price as high as possible and sell it for staggering profits. On that fateful Friday in September, the scheme was finally brought to light, causing the stock market to spiral downward and bankrupting everyone from farmers to Wall Street tycoons. The most well-known story behind the Black Friday tradition following Thanksgiving connects it to retailers - after a whole year of operating at a loss (or being "in the red"), on the day after Thanksgiving, shoppers splurged so much on marked down products that stores actually made a profit (or went "into the black"). Though retail companies indeed used to record losses in red and profits in black when doing their accounting, this version of Black Friday's origin is the officially sanctioned -- but inaccurate -- story behind the tradition. By the late 1980s, Black Friday had stuck and became something positive. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/gimme-that-old-time-christmas-classic-yuletide-holiday-films-dvd.html

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Today, November 25, 2025

November 25, 1965: Thanksgiving Day (US): Alice's Restaurant Massacree (Alice's Restaurant): -- On Thanksgiving Day 1965, while in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, during a break from his brief stint in college, 18-year-old folk music singer, songwriter and guitarist Arlo Guthrie, son of the famous folk music singer, songwriter and guitarist Woody Guthrie, is arrested for illegally dumping on private property what he described as "a half-ton of garbage" from the home of his friends, teachers Ray and Alice Brock, after he discovered the local landfill was closed for the holiday. Guthrie and his friend Richard Robbins appeared in court, pled guilty to the charges, were levied a nominal fine and picked up the garbage that weekend. This littering charge would soon serve as the basis for Guthrie's most famous work, "Alice's Restaurant Massacree", a talking blues song that lasts 18 minutes and 34 seconds in its original recorded version. Guthrie has pointed out that this was also the exact length of one of the infamous gaps in Richard Nixon's Watergate tapes, and that Nixon owned a copy of the record. The Alice in the song is Alice Brock, who had been a librarian at Arlo's boarding school in the town before opening her restaurant. She later opened an art studio in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The song lampoons the Vietnam War draft. However, Guthrie has stated in multiple interviews that the song is more an "anti-stupidity" song than an anti-war song, adding that it is based on a true incident. In the song, Guthrie is called up for a draft examination and rejected as unfit for military service as a result of a criminal record consisting solely of one conviction for the aforementioned littering. Alice and her restaurant are the subjects of the refrain, but are generally mentioned only incidentally in the story (early drafts of the song explained that the restaurant was a place to hide from the police). Though her presence is implied at certain points in the story, Alice herself is described explicitly in the tale only briefly when she bails Guthrie and a friend out of jail. On the DVD commentary for the 1969 movie, Guthrie stated that the events presented in the song all actually happened (others, such as the arresting officer, William Obanhein, disputed some of the song's details, but generally verified the truth of the overall story). "Alice's Restaurant" was the song that earned Guthrie his first recording contract, after counterculture radio host Bob Fass began playing a tape recording of one of Guthrie's live performances of the song repeatedly one night in 1967. A performance at the Newport Folk Festival on July 17, 1967, was also very well received. Soon afterward, Guthrie recorded the song in front of a studio audience in New York City and released it as side one of the album, Alice's Restaurant. By the end of the decade, Guthrie had gone from playing coffee houses and small venues to playing massive and prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall and the Woodstock Festival. For a short period after its release in October 1967, "Alice's Restaurant" was heavily played on U.S. college and counterculture radio stations. It became a symbol of the late 1960s, and for many it defined an attitude and lifestyle that were lived out across the country in the ensuing years. Its leisurely finger-picking acoustic guitar and rambling lyrics were widely memorized and played by irreverent youth. Many stations in the United States have a Thanksgiving Day tradition of playing "Alice's Restaurant". A 1969 film, directed and co-written by Arthur Penn, was based on the true story told in the song, but with the addition of a large number of fictional scenes. This film, also called Alice's Restaurant, featured Guthrie and several other figures in the song portraying themselves. The part of his father Woody Guthrie, who had died in 1967, was played by actor Joseph Boley; Alice, who made a cameo appearance as an extra, was also recast, with actress Pat Quinn in the title role (Alice Brock later disowned the film's portrayal of her). Despite its popularity, the song "Alice's Restaurant Massacree" is not always featured on the setlist of any given Guthrie performance. Since putting it back into his setlist in 1984, he has performed the song every ten years, stating in a 2014 interview that the Vietnam War had ended by the 1970s and that everyone who was attending his concerts had likely already heard the song anyway. So, after a brief period in the late 1960s and early 1970s when he replaced the monologue with a fictional one involving "multicolored rainbow roaches", he decided to do it only on special occasions from that point forward. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/decades-the-1960s-dvd-set-peter-jennings-tv-series-3-19603.html

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Today, November 25, 2025

November 25, 1835: #BOTD: #HBD! Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American business magnate, financier, industrialist, and philanthropist (d. August 11, 1919) is #born in Dunfermline, Scotland. Carnegie led the expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century and is often identified as one of the richest people (and richest Americans) ever. He became a leading philanthropist in the United States, and in the British Empire. During the last 18 years of his life, he gave away about 350M USD to charities, foundations, and universities: almost 90 percent of his fortune. His 1889 article proclaiming "The Gospel of Wealth" called on the rich to use their wealth to improve society, and stimulated a wave of philanthropy. Carnegie immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1848. Carnegie started work as a telegrapher, and by the 1860s had investments in railroads, railroad sleeping cars, bridges, and oil derricks. He accumulated further wealth as a bond salesman, raising money for American enterprise in Europe. He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which he sold to J.P. Morgan in 1901 for 480M USD. It became the U.S. Steel Corporation. After selling Carnegie Steel, he surpassed John D. Rockefeller as the richest American for the next couple of years. Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to large-scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on local libraries, world peace, education, and scientific research. With the fortune he made from business, he built over 2,500 libraries (collectively known as Carnegie Libraries), Carnegie Hall and the Peace Palace and founded the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Institution for Science, Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, Carnegie Hero Fund, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, among others. He once wrote, "The man who dies rich dies disgraced."; accordingly, he died in Lenox, Massachusetts, at his Shadow Brook estate, of Bronchial Pneumonia, aged 83, having already given away 350,695,653 USD (approximately 5.92B US in 2022) of his wealth. After his death, his last 30M USD was given to foundations, charities, and to pensioners. He is buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York. The grave site is located on the Arcadia Hebron plot of land at the corner of Summit Avenue and Dingle Road. Carnegie is buried only a few yards away from union organizer Samuel Gompers, another important figure of industry in the Gilded Age. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/america-the-second-century-us-2nd-100-years-history-621006.html

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Today, November 25, 2025

November 25, 1844: #BOTD: #HBD! Karl Benz, German engine designer, automotive engineer and businessman, founder of Mercedes-Benz (d. April 4, 1929) is #born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant in Muhlburg, now a borough of Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, which is part of modern Germany. Also called Carl Friedrich Benz, Karl Benz patented on January 29, 1886 his "Benz Patent Motorwagen", the first purpose-built gasoline-driven automobile, as DRP-37435: "automobile fueled by gas", the first automobile entirely designed as such to generate its own power, not simply a motorized stage coach or horse carriage which were vehicles designed to rely on horse power, which is why Karl Benz was granted his patent and is regarded as the inventor of the automobile. This is also considered to be the first "production" vehicle as Benz made several other identical copies. Benz began to advertise and sell his "Benz Patent Motorwagen" in the late summer of 1888, making it the first commercially available automobile in history. In 1870 Siegfried Marcus built the first gasoline powered combustion engine, which he placed on a pushcart, building four progressively more sophisticated combustion-engine cars over a 10-to-15-year span that influenced later cars. Marcus created the two-cycle combustion engine. The car's second incarnation in 1880 introduced a four-cycle, gasoline-powered engine, an ingenious carburetor design and magneto ignition. He created an additional two models further refining his design with steering, a clutch and a brake. Nevertheless, these automobiles were the cobbling-together of the gasoline engine and extant wheeled vehicles. In 1871, at the age of twenty-seven, Karl Benz joined August Ritter in launching the Iron Foundry and Mechanical Workshop in Mannheim, later renamed Factory for Machines for Sheet-metal Working. The enterprise's first year went very badly. Ritter turned out to be unreliable, and the business's tools were impounded. The difficulty was overcome when Benz's fiancee, Bertha Ringer, bought out Ritter's share in the company using her dowry. On 20 July 1872, Karl Benz and Bertha Ringer married. They had five children: Eugen (1873), Richard (1874), Clara (1877), Thilde (1882), and Ellen (1890). Despite the business misfortunes, Karl Benz led in the development of new engines in the early factory he and his wife owned. To get more revenues, in 1878 he began to work on new patents. First, he concentrated all his efforts on creating a reliable petrol two-stroke engine. Benz finished his two-stroke engine on 31 December 1879, New Year's Eve, and was granted a patent for it in 28 June 1880. Karl Benz showed his real genius, however, through his successive inventions registered while designing what would become the production standard for his two-stroke engine. Benz soon patented the speed regulation system, the ignition using sparks with battery, the spark plug, the carburetor, the clutch, the gear shift, and the water radiator. Benz's lifelong hobby of bicycling brought him to a bicycle repair shop in Mannheim owned by Max Rose and Friedrich Wilhelm Esslinger. In 1883, the three founded a new company producing industrial machines: Benz & Companie Rheinische Gasmotoren-Fabrik, usually referred to as Benz & Cie. Quickly growing to twenty-five employees, it soon began to produce static gas engines as well. The success of the company gave Benz the opportunity to indulge in his old passion of designing a horseless carriage. Based on his experience with, and fondness for, bicycles, he used similar technology when he created an automobile. It featured wire wheels (unlike carriages' wooden ones) with a four-stroke engine of his own design between the rear wheels, with a very advanced coil ignition and evaporative cooling rather than a radiator. Power was transmitted by means of two roller chains to the rear axle. Karl Benz finished his creation in 1885. The 1885 version was difficult to control, leading to a collision with a wall during a public demonstration. The first successful tests on public roads were carried out in the early summer of 1886. The next year Benz created the Motorwagen Model 2, which had several modifications, and in 1889, the definitive Model 3 with wooden wheels was introduced, showing at the Paris Expo the same year. The second customer of the Motorwagen was a Parisian bicycle manufacturer Emile Roger, who had already been building Benz engines under license from Karl Benz for several years. Roger added the Benz automobiles (many built in France) to the line he carried in Paris and initially most were sold there. The early 1888 version of the Motorwagen had only two gears and could not climb hills unaided. This limitation was rectified after Bertha Benz suggested the addition of a third gear after she famously became the first person to drive an automobile over a long distance, rigorously field testing the patent Motorwagen, inventing brake pads and solving several practical issues during the 65 miles (105 km) trip. In doing so, she brought the Benz Patent-Motorwagen worldwide attention and got the company its first sales. Karl Benz died os a bronchial inflammation at the age of eighty-four at his home in Ladenburg, Baden, Germany. He is buried in the Friedhof Ladenburg in Ladenburg, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-birth-of-europe-european-history-from-the-ice-age-to-20th-centu20.html

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Today, November 25, 2025

November 25, 1846: #BOTD: Carrie Nation, American activist, noted for attacking alcohol-serving establishments (most often taverns) with a hatchet, radical member of the temperance movement, a movement which opposed alcohol before the advent of Prohibition (d. June 9, 1911) is #born Caroline Amelia Nation in Garrard County, Kentucky. Often referred to by Carrie, Carry Nation, Carrie A. Nation, or Hatchet Granny, Carrie Nation was also concerned about tight clothing for women; she refused to wear a corset and urged women not to wear them because of their harmful effects on vital organs. She described herself as "a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what He doesn't like", and claimed a divine ordination to promote temperance by destroying bars. Carrie Nation died aged 64 at Evergreen Place Hospital and Sanitarium just outside the city limits of Leavenworth, Kansas, having been brought there following her collapse during her speech in a Eureka Springs, Arkansas park. Doctors said the cause of death was paresis, a vaguely-defined medical condition typified by a weakness of voluntary movement. She is buried in the southeastern side of Belton Cemetery in Belton, Missouri. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union later erected a stone inscribed "Faithful to the Cause of Prohibition, She Hath Done What She Could" and the name "Carry A. Nation". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/american-diary-complete-us-historytv-series-2-dual-layer-dvd2.html

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Today, November 25, 2025

November 25, 1881: #BOTD: #HBD! Pope John XXIII (Latin: Ioannes; Italian: Giovanni), head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from October 28, 1958 to his death in 1963, canonized a saint on Apri 27, 2014 (d. June 3, 1963) is #born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli in Sotto il Monte, a small country village in the Bergamo province of the Lombardy region of Italy, the fourth of fourteen children born to a family of sharecroppers. He was ordained to the priesthood on 10 August 1904 and served in a number of posts, as nuncio in France and a delegate to Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey. In a consistory on January 12, 1953 Pope Pius XII made Roncalli a cardinal as the Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prisca in addition to naming him as the Patriarch of Venice. After Pope Pius XII's death, Roncalli was unexpectedly elected pope on October 28, 1958, on the anniversary of Constantine I's victory at The Battle Of The Milvian Bridge, at age 76 after 11 ballots. He was the first pope to take the pontifical name of "John" upon election in more than 500 years, and his choice settled the complicated question of official numbering attached to this papal name. Pope John XXIII surprised those who expected him to be a caretaker pope by calling the historic Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), the first session opening on October 11, 1962. His passionate views on equality were summed up in his statement, "We were all made in God's image, and thus, we are all Godly alike." Pope John XXIII died of peritonitis caused by a perforated stomach at 19:49 local time, just as a Mass for him finished in Saint Peter's Square below celebrated by Cardinal Luigi Traglia, at the age of 81, ending a historic pontificate of four years and seven months. After he died, his brow was ritually tapped to see if he was dead, and those with him in the room said prayers. Then the room was illuminated, thus informing the people of what had happened. The Italian government announced three days of mourning with flags half-masted and the closure of offices and schools. Spain announced ten days of mourning with flags half-masted; Philippines announced nine days of mourning with flags half-masted; Paraguay and Guatemala announced three days of mourning; The Republic Of The Congo declared one day of mourning. He was buried on June 6 in the Vatican grottos in a tomb located near those of both Pope Pius X and Pope John Paul II. Two wreaths, placed on the two sides of his tomb, were donated by the prisoners of the Regina Coeli prison and the Mantova jail in Verona. On June 22, 1963, one day after his friend and successor Pope Paul VI was elected, the latter prayed at his tomb. On December 3, 1963, US President Lyndon B. Johnson posthumously awarded him the Presidential Medal Of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian award, in recognition of the good relationship between Pope John XXIII and the United States of America. The citation for the medal reads "His Holiness Pope John XXIII, dedicated servant of God. He brought to all citizens of the planet a heightened sense of the dignity of the individual, of the brotherhood of man, and of the common duty to build an environment of peace for all human kind." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/pope-pius-xii-dvd-cardinal-secretary-of-state-eugenio-pacelli1.html

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Today, November 25, 2025

November 25, 1900: #BOTD: #HBD! Helen Gahagan Douglas, American actress whose portrayal of the villain in She (1935) inspired the Evil Queen in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), politician first elected to the United States Congress as a Representative Of California in 1944, and who in her 1950 U.S. Senate election campaign became famous as a symbol of modern political vitriol as both Gahagan Douglas's Democratic primary opponent Manchester Boddy and Republican Senatorial Candidate Richard M. Nixon both referred to her as "pink right down to her underwear", suggesting Communist sympathies (d. June 28, 1980) is #born Helen Mary Gahagan in Boonton, New Jersey, of Scotch-Irish descent. Gahagan Douglas's acting career included success on Broadway, as a touring opera singer, and in Hollywood film. She was the eldest daughter of Lillian Rose (Mussen) and Walter H. Gahagan, an engineer who owned a construction business in Brooklyn and a shipyard in Arverne, Queens; her mother had been a schoolteacher. During and after the Watergate scandal, bumper stickers featuring the legend "Don't blame me, I voted for Helen Gahagan Douglas" cropped up on cars in California. In October 1973, Gahagan Douglas was among the first women featured on the cover of Ms. magazine. At its 1979 commencement ceremonies, Barnard College awarded Gahagan Douglas its highest honor, the Barnard Medal of Distinction. She died the following year in New York City aged 79 from breast and lung cancer, with her husband Melvyn Douglas by her side. Her remains were cremated, and the ashes given to her widow. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/millhouse-a-white-comedy-dvd-1971-richard-nixon-documen1971.html

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Today, November 25, 2025

November 25, 1914: #BOTD: #HBD! Joe DiMaggio, nicknamed "Joltin' Joe", "The Yankee Clipper" and "Joe D.", American baseball center fielder and coach who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees (d. March 8, 1999) is #born Joseph Paul DiMaggio to Sicilian immigrants in Martinez, California. He is widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time, and is best known for setting the record for the longest hitting streak in baseball (56 games from May 15 - July 16, 1941), a record which still stands. DiMaggio was a three-time Most Valuable Player Award winner and an All-Star in each of his 13 seasons. During his tenure with the Yankees, the club won ten American League pennants and nine World Series championships. His nine career World Series rings is second only to fellow Yankee Yogi Berra, who won ten. At the time of his retirement after the 1951 season, he ranked fifth in career home runs (361) and sixth in career slugging percentage (.579). He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955 and was voted the sport's greatest living player in a poll taken during baseball's centennial year of 1969. His brothers Vince (1912-1986) and Dom (1917-2009) also were major league center fielders. Outside of baseball, DiMaggio is also widely known for his marriage and life-long devotion to Marilyn Monroe. Joe DiMaggio died of lung cancer, having been heavy smoker for much of his adult life, at home in Hollywood, Florida at age 84. His funeral was held on March 11, 1999, at Sts. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Church in San Francisco, and he was interred 3 months later at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, California. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/when-baseball-went-to-war-baseball-and-its-players-during-wwii-mp4-dvd.html

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Today, November 25, 2025

November 25, 1915: #BOTD: Augusto Pinochet, Chilean general whose rule remains the longest of any Chilean leader in history, ruling Chile from 1973 to 1990, first as the leader of the Military Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981, being declared the President of the Republic by the junta in 1974 and becoming the de facto dictator of Chile, and from 1981 to 1990 as de jure President after a new Constitution, which confirmed him in the office, was approved by a referendum in 1980 (d. December 10, 2006) is #born Augusto Jose Ramon Pinochet Ugarte in Valparaiso, the son and namesake of Augusto Pinochet Vera (1891-1944), a descendant of an 18th-century French Breton immigrant from Lamballe and Avelina Ugarte Martinez (1895-1986), a woman of Basque heritage. Augusto Pinochet rose through the ranks of the Chilean Army to become General Chief of Staff in early 1972 before being appointed its Commander-In-Chief on August 23, 1973 by President Salvador Allende. On September 11, 1973, Pinochet seized power in Chile in a coup d'etat, with the support of the US, that toppled Allende's democratically elected left-wing Unidad Popular government and ended civilian rule. In December 1974, the ruling military junta appointed Pinochet Supreme Head of the nation by joint decree, although without the support of one of the coup's instigators, Air Force General Gustavo Leigh. After his rise to power, Pinochet persecuted leftists, socialists, and political critics, resulting in the executions of 1,200 to 3,200 people, the internment of as many as 80,000 people, and the torture of tens of thousands. According to the Chilean government, the number of executions and forced disappearances was at least 3,095. Operation Condor, a U.S.-supported terror operation focusing on South America, was founded at the behest of the Pinochet regime in late November 1975, his 60th birthday. Under the influence of the free market-oriented "Chicago Boys", Pinochet's military government implemented economic liberalization following neoliberalism, including currency stabilization, removed tariff protections for local industry, banned trade unions, and privatized social security and hundreds of state-owned enterprises. Some of the government properties were sold below market price to politically connected buyers, including Pinochet's own son-in-law. The regime used censorship of entertainment as a way to reward supporters of the regime and punish opponents. These policies produced high economic growth, but critics state that economic inequality dramatically increased and attribute the devastating effects of the 1982 monetary crisis on the Chilean economy to these policies. For most of the 1990s, Chile was the best-performing economy in Latin America, though the legacy of Pinochet's reforms continues to be in dispute. His fortune grew considerably during his years in power through dozens of bank accounts secretly held abroad and a fortune in real estate. He was later prosecuted for embezzlement, tax fraud, and for possible commissions levied on arms deals. Pinochet's 17-year rule was given a legal framework through a controversial 1980 plebiscite, which approved a new constitution drafted by a government-appointed commission. In a 1988 plebiscite, 56% voted against Pinochet's continuing as president, which led to democratic elections for the presidency and Congress. After stepping down in 1990, Pinochet continued to serve as Commander-In-Chief of the Chilean Army until March 10, 1998, when he retired and became a senator-for-life in accordance with his 1980 Constitution. However, Pinochet was arrested under an international arrest warrant on a visit to London on 10 October 1998 in connection with numerous human rights violations. Following a legal battle, he was released on grounds of ill-health and returned to Chile on 3 March 2000. In 2004, Chilean Judge Juan Guzman Tapia ruled that Pinochet was medically fit to stand trial and placed him under house arrest. By the time of his death, about 300 criminal charges were still pending against him in Chile for numerous human rights violations during his 17-year rule, as well as tax evasion and embezzlement during and after his rule. He was also accused of having corruptly amassed at least 28M USD. Augusto Pinochet died of congestive heart failure and pulmonary edema,surrounded by family members, at the Santiago Military Hospital in Santiago, Chile at 14:15 local time (17:15 UTC), aged 91. Massive spontaneous street demonstrations broke out throughout the country upon the news of his death. In Santiago, opponents celebrated his death in Alameda Avenue, while supporters grieved outside the Military Hospital. Pinochet's remains lay in repose on December 11, 2006 at the Military Academy in Las Condes. During this ceremony, Francisco Cuadrado Prats - the grandson of Carlos Prats (a former Commander-In-Chief of the Army in the Allende government who was murdered by Pinochet's secret police) - spat on the coffin, and was quickly surrounded by supporters of Pinochet, who assaulted him. Pinochet's funeral took place the following day at the same venue before a gathering of 60,000 supporters. In a government decision, he was not granted a state funeral (an honor normally bestowed upon past presidents of Chile) but a military funeral as former Commander-In-Chief of the Army appointed by Allende. The government also refused to declare an official national day of mourning, but it did authorize flags at military barracks to be flown at half staff, and for the Chilean flag to be draped on Pinochet's coffin. Socialist President Michelle Bachelet, whose father Alberto was temporarily imprisoned and tortured after the 1973 coup and died shortly afterwards from heart complications, said that it would be "a violation of [her] conscience" to attend a state funeral for Pinochet. The only government authority present at the public funeral was the Defense Minister, Vivianne Blanlot. In Spain, supporters of late dictator Francisco Franco paid homage to Pinochet. Antonio Tejero, who led the failed coup of 1981, attended a memorial service in Madrid. Pinochet's body was cremated in Parque del Mar Cemetery, Concon, on December 12, 2006, on his request to "avoid vandalism of his tomb", according to his son Marco Antonio. His ashes were delivered to his family later that day, and are deposited in Los Boldos, Santo Domingo, Valparaiso, Chile; one of his personal residences. The armed forces refused to allow his ashes to be deposited on military property. 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Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Hate On Trial: SPLC Vs WAR Trial + Skinhead USA MP4 Download DVD Set
Today, November 25, 2025

November 25, 1915: Racism: Racism In The United States: Anti-Black Racism: Anti-Black Racism In The United States: White Supremacy: Terrorism: The Ku Klux Klan (The Klan, The KKK): -- On Thanksgiving Day 1915, fifteen robed and hooded "charter members" of the new KKK organization, meet at the summit of Stone Mountain to create a new iteration of the Ku Klux Klan. According to sociologist James W. Loewen, Stone Mountain was "the sacred site to members of the second and third national klans." Loewen alleges that the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan - the second Klan - was inspired by D. W. Griffith's 1915 Klan-glorifying film, The Birth of a Nation.[32] It was followed in August by the highly publicized lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman who had been wrongly convicted of murder, in nearby Marietta, Georgia. Loewen further alleges that on November 25 of the same year, Thanksgiving Day, a small group, including fifteen robed and hooded "charter members" of the new organization, met at the summit of Stone Mountain to create a new iteration of the Klan. Led by William J. Simmons, it included two elderly members of the original Klan. As part of their ceremony, they set up on the summit an altar covered with a flag, opened a Bible, and burned a 16 ft (4.9 m) cross. James R. Venable attended the 1915 revival of the KKK on top of Stone Mountain and later became an Imperial Wizard of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which was one of the later KKK factions. He owned land at the base of the mountain that he had inherited from his ancestors, and in October of 1923 he granted the Klan an easement with perpetual right to hold celebrations as they desired. However, the property was condemned in 1960 at the behest of the Stone Mountain Memorial Association. The Klan also held cross-burnings at the summit of the mountain on different occasions from 1915 onward. This practice came to an end in 1962, when the Klan attempted to hold a mountaintop cross-burning in response to the NAACP holding its national convention in Atlanta. The Stone Mountain Memorial Association did not want either group using state property for demonstrations, and convinced Governor Ernest Vandiver to order state troopers to stop the event. Seventy troopers attempted to stop several hundred Klansmen gathered at the base of the mountain from climbing to the summit, but the Klansmen were armed with billy clubs, flashlights, and stones, and greatly outnumbered the officers. The police negotiated a truce with the local Klan Grand Dragon, under which the Klansmen would refrain from further violence, but 20 of their number would be allowed to climb the mountain for a "religious ceremony", and the cross-burning was substituted with the lighting of a flare. In August of 2017, the Klan was denied a permit for a mountaintop cross-burning. The Ku Klux Klan is the name of three separate historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups in three non-overlapping time periods. The Klan was "the first organized terror movement in American history." Their primary targets are African Americans, Hispanics, Jews, Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Italian Americans, Irish Americans, and Catholics, as well as immigrants, leftists, homosexuals, Muslims, atheists, and abortion providers. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/hate-on-trial-splc-vs-war-racism-on-trial-mp4-video-download-dvd-se4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The History Of Jazz A Video Retrospective DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, November 25, 2025

November 25, 1924: #BOTD: #HBD! Paul Desmond, American saxophonist and composer (d. May 30, 1977) is #born Paul Emil Breitenfeld in San Francisco, California. He was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer, best known for his work with the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for composing that group's biggest hit, "Take Five". He was one of the most popular musicians to come out of the cool jazz scene. In addition to his work with Brubeck, he led several groups and collaborated with Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Jim Hall, and Ed Bickert. After years of chain smoking and poor health, Desmond succumbed to lung cancer aged 52 in Manhattan, New York following one last tour with Brubeck. His remains were cremated, and his ashes scattered at an undisclosed location. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-history-of-jazz-by-billy-taylor-parts-i-amp-ii-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The History Of Jazz A Video Retrospective DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, November 25, 2025

November 25, 1931: #BOTD: #HBD! Nat Adderley, African American cornet and trumpet player, an innovator in the popularization of soul jazz and was one of the most prolific jazz artists of his time, recording nearly 100 albums, who proved that cornet could be a modern jazz instrument. (d. January 2, 2000) is #born Nathaniel Carlyle Adderleyin Tampa, Florida. He was the brother of saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley, whom he remained very close to in his career but under whose shadow he lived for most of his life. Nat Adderley's "Work Song" is a jazz standard which also became a success on the pop charts after singer Oscar Brown Jr. wrote lyrics for the tune. Nat Adderley died as a result of complications from diabetes at the age of 68 in Lakeland, Florida. He was interred near his brother in the Southside Cemetery in Tallahassee, Florida. He was survived by his wife, Ann; a son, Nat Adderley Jr. of West Orange, N.J.; a daughter, Alison Adderley-Pittman of Palm Bay, Florida; and five grandchildren. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-history-of-jazz-by-billy-taylor-parts-i-amp-ii-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Road To War: Years Between WWI & WWII TV Series DVD, Download, USB
Today, November 25, 2025

November 25, 1936: The Interwar Period (The Aftermath Of World War I, The Interbellum, Between The Wars): The Road To War: The Anti-Comintern Pact (The Agreement Against The Communist International (German: Abkommen Gegen Die Kommunistische Internationale (German: Antikominternpakt; Japanese: Bokyo Kyotei; Italian: Patto Anticomintern): -- An agreement is signed between Germany and Japan directed against the Communist International (Comintern, also known as the Third International [1919-1943], an international organization that advocated world communism that Joseph Stalin, head of the Soviet Union, dissolved to avoid antagonizing his allies) in which they commit to collaborate in opposing the spread of Communism, agreeing to consult on measures "to safeguard their common interests" in the case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation; Italy signs on in 1937, and in 1939 Spain, Hungary and Manchukuo sign. The pact is renewed on the same day five years later with additional signatories Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Nanjing China (Japanese puppet state), Romania and Slovakia. The Japanese signatories had hoped that the Anti-Comintern Pact would effectively be an alliance against the Soviet Union, which is certainly how the Soviets perceived it. There was also a secret additional protocol which specified a joint German-Japanese policy specifically aimed against the Soviet Union. However, after the accession of Fascist Italy to the pact and especially the German-Soviet rapprochement after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, it gained an increasingly anti-western and anti-British identity as well. After August 1939, Japan distanced itself from Germany as a result of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The Anti-Comintern Pact was followed by the September 1940 Tripartite Pact, which identified the United States as the primary threat rather than the Soviet Union, however by December 1941 this too was virtually inoperative. The Anti-Comintern Pact was subsequently renewed in November 1941 and saw the entry of several new members into the pact. The Nazi regime saw signing of the Anti-Comintern Pact as a "litmus test of loyalty". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-road-to-war-dvd-set-all-8-tv-shows-4-dis84.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Legacy Of The Hollywood Blacklist DVD MP4 Download USB Flash Drive
Today, November 25, 2025

November 25, 1947: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: Anti-Communism: Anti-Communism In The United States: The Red Scare: The Second Red Scare: The Hollywood Blacklist: The Hollywood Ten: -- Ten individuals who became known as "The Hollywood Ten" are cited for contempt of Congress and blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios after refusing to answer questions about their alleged involvement with the Communist Party: Alvah Bessie, screenwriter; Herbert Biberman, screenwriter and director; Lester Cole, screenwriter; Edward Dmytryk, director; Ring Lardner Jr., screenwriter; John Howard Lawson, screenwriter; Albert Maltz, screenwriter; Samuel Ornitz, screenwriter; Adrian Scott, producer and screenwriter; and Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter. On October 20, the House Un-American Activities Committee began its investigation into Communist infiltration of Hollywood, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years. In late September 1947, HUAC subpoenaed 79 individuals on a claim that they were subversive and the supposition that they injected Communist propaganda into their films. Although never substantiating this claim, the investigators charged them with contempt of Congress when they refused to answer the questions about their membership in the Screen Writers Guild and Communist Party. The Committee demanded they admit their political beliefs and name names of other Communists. Nineteen of those refused to cooperate, and due to illnesses, scheduling conflicts, and exhaustion from the chaotic hearings, only 10 appeared before the Committee. These men became known as the Hollywood Ten. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/legacy-of-the-hollywood-blacklist-dvd-mp4-download-usb-flash-driv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Korea: The Forgotten War Hosted By Robert Stack DVD, Download, USB
Today, November 25, 2025

November 25, 1950: Korea: The History Of Korea: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Korean Conflict: The Cold War (1947-1953): The Cold War In Asia: The Korean War: The Chinese Second Phase Campaign (The Chinese Second Phase Offensive): The Battle Of The Ch'ongch'on River, The Battle Of Chosin Reservoir: -- The PVA stikes again along the entire Korean front. In the west, at The Battle Of The Ch'ongch'on River, the PVA overran several UN divisions and landed an extremely heavy blow into the flank of the remaining UN forces, decimating the 2nd Infantry Division in the process. The resulting UN retreat from North Korea was the longest retreat of an American unit in history. In the east, at The Battle Of Chosin Reservoir, Task Force Faith - a 3,000 man unit from the 7th Infantry Division - was surrounded by the PVA 80th and the 81st Divisions. Task Force Faith managed to inflict heavy casualties onto the PVA divisions, but in the end it was destroyed with 2,000 men killed or captured, and losing all vehicles and most other equipment. The destruction of Task Force Faith was considered by the PVA to be their biggest success of the entire Korean War. The 1st Marine Division fared better; though surrounded and forced to retreat, they inflicted heavy casualties on the PVA, who committed six divisions trying to destroy the Marines. Although the PVA were able to recapture much of North Korea during the Second Phase Campaign, 40 percent of the PVA was rendered combat ineffective-a loss which they could not recover from until the start of Chinese Spring Offensive. UN forces in northeast Korea withdrew to form a defensive perimeter around the port city of Hungnam, where an evacuation was carried out in late December 1950. Approximately 100,000 military personnel and material and another 100,000 North Korean civilians were loaded onto a variety of merchant and military transport ships. Eighth Army commander General Walton Walker was killed in an accident on December 23, 1950. He was replaced by Lieutenant General Matthew Ridgway, who led airborne troops in the Second World War. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/korea-the-forgotten-war-with-robert-stack-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Eyes On The Prize II: America At The Racial Crossroads DVD MP4 USB
Today, November 25, 2025

November 25, 1955: Civil Rights Movements: The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968): Anti-Black Racism In The United States: Segregation: Racial Segregation: Racial Segregation In The United States: Transportation Segregation: Transportation Segregation In The United States: -- The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), a federal agency that regulates railroads and other transporters of goods, bans racial segregation on interstate buses, train lines, and in waiting rooms. The ICC ruled that "the disadvantages to a traveler who is assigned accommodations or facilities so designated as to imply his inferiority solely because of his race must be regarded under present conditions as unreasonable." The ban was consistent with a 1946 United States Supreme Court decision, Morgan v. Commonwealth of Virginia, which held that a state law requiring segregation on interstate buses traveling through the state was unconstitutional. Despite the ruling, neither the Supreme Court decision nor the ICC ban covered intrastate travel, and thirteen states still required segregation on buses and railways that traveled exclusively within state borders. Some of these states ignored the new ban on segregated interstate travel and continued to enforce unconstitutional laws. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/eyes-on-the-prize-ii-dvd-set-4-discs-complete-2nd-seri42.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Cream: Farewell Concerts At Royal Albert Hall 1968 Plus Bonus MP4 DVD
Today, November 25, 2025

November 25, 1968: Aesthetics: Performing Arts: Finales: Musical Finales: British Musical Finales: Grand Finales: Cream's Final Concert (Cream's November 25-26, 1968 Royal Albert Hall Concert): -- British blues rock band Cream performs the first of their two November 25-26 farewell concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in South Kensington, London, England. Thes two concerts were filmed for a BBC documentary "Farewell Concert" whose premiere broadcast was on Sunday, January 5, 1969, and the film was later released and shown in theatres. The opening acts for the concert were future progressive rock stars Yes, who were just starting out, and Taste, an Irish trio led by Rory Gallagher. From its creation, Cream was faced with some fundamental problems that would later lead to its dissolution in November 1968. Antagonism between bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker created tensions in the band. Marshall amplifier stacks during these years had improved and produced more power, and Jack Bruce pushed their volume levels higher (these go to 11! ;) ), creating great annoyance for for Baker, who was well known for being easily and vociferously annoyed, and even his powerful drumming had trouble competing with Bruce's roaring stacks. Guitarist Eric Clapton spoke of a concert during which he stopped playing and neither Baker nor Bruce noticed. Clapton has also commented that Cream's later gigs mainly consisted of its members showing off, and as a blues purist, he was interested only in the art of the performance. These tensions between bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker led to the band's decision in May 1968 to break up during a tour of the US, though the band were persuaded to make a final album, Goodbye, and to tour, culminating in two final farewell concerts at the Royal Albert Hall In July, the band announced publicly that they would break up after a farewell tour of the US and after playing two concerts in London. Jack Bruce was quoted as saying "Travel can kill a group. It becomes boring, tiring and very depressing." Cream were a formed in London in 1966. Bruce was the primary songwriter and vocalist, although Clapton and Baker also sang and contributed songs. Formed from members of previously successful bands, they are widely regarded as the world's first supergroup. Cream were highly regarded for the instrumental proficiency of each of their members. Their music spanned many genres of rock music, including blues rock ("Crossroads", "Born Under a Bad Sign"), psychedelic rock ("Tales of Brave Ulysses", "White Room"), and hard rock ("Sunshine of Your Love", "SWLABR"). In their career, they sold more than 15 million records worldwide. The group's third album, Wheels of Fire (1968), is the world's first platinum-selling double album. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/cream-farewell-concerts-at-royal-albert-hall-1968-plus-bonus-mp19684.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Strange Case Of Yukio Mishima Biography DVD, MP4 Download, USB
Today, November 25, 2025

November 25, 1970: The Mishima Incident (Yukio Mishima's Coup Attempt And Ritual Suicide): #DOTD: -- Yukio Mishima, Japanese author, poet, playwright, actor, model, Shintoist, nationalist, and founder of the Tatenokai (Japanese: "Shield Society") private militia, along with and one compatriot (b. January 14, 1925) #dies aged 45 when he and they commit seppuku, ritualistic suicide, after an unsuccessful coup attempt. He is buried in Tama Cemetery (Japanese: Tama Reien), the largest municipal cemetery in Japan, split between the cities of Fuchu and Koganei within the Tokyo Metropolis. Yukio Mishima was born Kimitake Hiraoka in Nagazumi-cho, Yotsuya-ku of Tokyo City (now part of Yotsuya, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo). He chose his pen name Yukio Mishima when he was 16. Mishima is considered one of the most important Japanese authors of the 20th century. He was considered for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968 but the award went to his countryman Yasunari Kawabata. His works include the novels Confessions of a Mask and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, and the autobiographical essay Sun and Steel. His avant garde work displayed a blending of modern and traditional aesthetics that broke cultural boundaries, with a focus on sexuality, death, and political change. Mishima was active as a nationalist and founded his own right-wing militia, the Tatenokai. In 1970, he and three other members of his militia staged an attempted coup d'etat when they seized control of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF) Camp Ichigaya military base in Ichigaya Honmura-cho, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. He took the base commander Kanetoshi Mashita hostage, then tried and failed to inspire a coup to restore the Emperor's pre-war powers. Mishima then committed ritual suicide by seppuku, aged aged 45, along with fellow Tatenokai member Masakatsu Morita, aged 25. Despite this embarrasingly atavistic event, and in honor of the merit of his prior literary work, The Mishima Prize was established in 1988 to honor his life and works. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-strange-case-of-yukio-mishima-dvd-read-by-john-hurt.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Understanding Northern Ireland: The Historical Evidence MP4 Or DVD
Today, November 25, 2025

November 25, 1974: The Northern Ireland Conflict (The Troubles): The Birmingham Pub Bombings: -- Britain outlaws the IRA (Irish Republican Army) in response to one of the deadliest acts of The Troubles (the ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland from the late 1960s to 1998, known internationally as The Northern Ireland Conflict), and the deadliest act of terrorism to occur in England between the Second World War and the 2005 London Bombings, which occurred four days prior on November 21, 1974. The Birmingham Pub Bombings killed 21 people and injured 182 others when bombs exploded in two public houses in Birmingham, England. The Provisional Irish Republican Army never officially admitted responsibility for the Birmingham Pub Bombings, although a former senior officer of the organisation confessed to their involvement in 2014. In 2017, one of the alleged and admitted perpetrators, Michael Hayes, claimed that the intention of the bombings had not been to harm civilians, and that their deaths had been caused by an unintentional delay in delivering an advance telephone warning to security services. The Birmingham Six, six Irishmen arrested within hours of the blasts - Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Joseph Hill, Gerard Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, William Power and John Walker - were sentenced in 1975 to life imprisonment for the bombings, but subsequently acquitted. They maintained their innocence and insisted police had coerced them into signing false confessions through severe physical and psychological abuse. After 16 years in prison, and a lengthy campaign, their convictions were declared unsafe and unsatisfactory, and quashed by the Court of Appeal in 1991. The episode is seen as one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British legal history. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/understanding-northern-ireland-the-historical-evidence-mp4-or-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Rock & Roll An Unruly History 10 Part TV Series MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, November 25, 2025

November 25, 1984: Aesthetics: The Performing Arts: Music: Music History: Music Of The United Kingdom: Charity Records (Charity Songs): Do They Know It's Christmas?: -- Thirty-six top British, Irish and American musicians gather at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London and record in a single day Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?", a charity song written in 1984 by Bob Geldof (of The Boomtown Rats) and Midge Ure (of Ultravox), to raise money for the 1983-1985 famine in Ethiopia. It was released in the UK on December 7, 1984. It entered the UK singles chart at number one, where it remained for five weeks, becoming Christmas number one. It sold a million copies in the first week, making it the fastest-selling single in UK chart history until Elton John's "Candle in the Wind 1997". UK sales passed three million by 1985. The song also reached number one in 13 other countries. In the US, it fell short of the top ten in the Billboard Hot 100, but sold an estimated 2.5 million copies by 1985. It had sold 11.7 million copies worldwide by 1989 and 3.8 million in the UK by 2017. "Do They Know It's Christmas?" raised 8M PS for Ethiopia within a year, far exceeding Geldof's hopes. The artists included vocalists Robert "Kool" Bell (Kool & the Gang); Bono (U2); Pete Briquette (the Boomtown Rats); Adam Clayton (U2); Phil Collins (Genesis and solo artist); Chris Cross (Ultravox); Simon Crowe (the Boomtown Rats); Sara Dallin (Bananarama); Siobhan Fahey (Bananarama); Johnny Fingers (the Boomtown Rats); Bob Geldof (the Boomtown Rats); Boy George (Culture Club); Glenn Gregory (Heaven 17); Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet); John Keeble (Spandau Ballet); Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet); Martin Kemp (Spandau Ballet); Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran); Marilyn; George Michael (Wham!); Jon Moss (Culture Club); Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet); Rick Parfitt (Status Quo); Nick Rhodes (Duran Duran); Francis Rossi (Status Quo); Sting (the Police); Andy Taylor (Duran Duran); James "J.T." Taylor (Kool & the Gang); John Taylor (Duran Duran); Roger Taylor (Duran Duran); Dennis Thomas (Kool & the Gang); Midge Ure (Ultravox); Martyn Ware (Heaven 17); Jody Watley; Paul Weller (the Style Council); Keren Woodward (Bananarama); and Paul Young. Musicians included Phil Collins (drums), John Taylor (bass guitar) and Midge Ure (PPG Wave, Yamaha DX7, OSCar, DrumTraks programming). Spoken messages on the B-side were by David Bowie; Stuart Adamson; Mark Brzezicki; Tony Butler; Bruce Watson (Big Country); Holly Johnson (Frankie Goes to Hollywood); and Paul McCartney. The success inspired other charity singles, such as "We Are the World" (1985) by USA for Africa, and charity events such as Comic Relief and the 1985 Live Aid concert. Some critics and musicians said the song misrepresented Africa as barren or ignorant and that its lyrics contains factual inaccuracies; Ure said it was secondary to the purpose of raising money for the cause. "Do They Know It's Christmas?" was rerecorded and rereleased with different musicians in 1989, 2004 and 2014. The 1989 and 2004 versions also raised funds for famine relief, while the 2014 version raised funds for the Ebola crisis in West Africa. All three reached number one in the UK, and the 1989 and 2004 versions were Christmas number ones. The 2004 version sold 1.8 million copies. A new mix, combining elements of the previous versions, was released in 2024 for the 40th anniversary. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/rock-amp-roll-an-unruly-history-10-part-tv-series-mp4-video-download-104.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: High Crimes And Misdemeanors: The Iran-Contra Scandal DVD, MP4, USB
Today, November 25, 2025

November 25, 1986: Scandals: Political Scandals: Political Scandals Of The United States: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1979-1985): The Iran-Iraq War: Iran-United States Relations: The Iran-Contra Affair (The Iran-Contra Scandal): -- U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese admits in a stunning announcement that a number of covert weapons sales were made to America's sworn enemy Iran, and that the profits from these sales were secretly and illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua. The Iran-Contra Affair, also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran-Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. Senior administration officials Caspar Weinberger, John Poindexter and Oliver North secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo. They hoped, thereby, to fund the Contras in Nicaragua, while at the same time negotiating the release of several U.S. hostages. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had previously been prohibited by Congress. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/high-crimes-and-misdemeanors-the-ironcontra-scandal-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Classic Family Values Films 1934-1957 DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, November 25, 2025
November 25: National Play Day With Dad: -- This day is dedicated to encouraging fathers to take a more active role in their children's lives and spend the day engaging with their children in various activities. All parents are guilty of spending more time tending to their children than having fun with them. It comes with the territory. Parenting isn't always fun. This is the day for you to put aside your duties and plan some fun activities with your children. Plan a day of fun adventures and give your children some extra love on this special holiday. Throughout history and all over the world, mothers have always been regarded as the primary caretakers of children. Parenthood starts with mothers but it doesn't have to end with them. For centuries, fathers took the backseat and resorted to simply providing for the family. There was a time when this division of roles was essential for our survival, but it's not anymore. In the 20th century, men were not allowed to attend births or support mothers through labor. Men found that it wasn't their place and women didn't want their husbands to see them in that way. Some fathers would go to a bar until the ordeal was over. In the 1950s, few hospitals encouraged men to join in on the process, but the notable changes began in the 1960s. It was only then that fathers were allowed to stay in the room during labor, and in the '70s and '80s, they were allowed to attend their child's birth. The perspective began to shift from there. There is tremendous progress for new fathers who are becoming more involved in caring for their households. More and more parents have a dual income, splitting their household chores and childcare. A 2016 study found that 16% of American fathers were stay-at-home dads and that only 27% of couples with young children had fathers as their sole breadwinners. Fathers are now spending eight hours a week caring for children and ten hours doing household chores. This is still much work to be done as many families still see childcare as a woman's job. This holiday is one step forward towards encouraging fathers to take on a more active role in caring for their children. https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-family-values-films-193419341957.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: American Revolutionary War Documentaries DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, November 25, 2025
November 25: Evacuation Day (New York): -- November 25, 1783: The Age Of Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The American Enlightenment: The American Revolution: The American Revolutionary War: -- The last British troops left New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty Of Paris, signed in Paris by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America on September 3, 1783, ending the American Revolutionary War. The treaty set the boundaries between the British Empire in North America and the United States, detailed fishing rights and restoration of property and prisoners of war. This treaty and the separate peace treaties between Great Britain and the nations that supported the American cause: France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic: are known collectively as the Peace of Paris. Only Article 1 of the treaty, which acknowledges the United States' existence as free sovereign and independent states, remains in force. https://store.earthstation1.com/american-revolutionary-war-dvd-documentaries.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Marshal Josip Broz Tito Documentary Biography DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, November 25, 2025
November 25: National Day Of Bosnia And Herzegovina (Statehood Day Of Bosnia And Herzegovina): -- November 25, 1943: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Mediterranean And Middle East Theater Of World War II (The Mediterranean Theater Of War) The Balkans Campaign (World War II): The State Anti-Fascist Council For The National Liberation Of Bosnia And Herzegovina (ZAVNOBIH, ZAVNOBiH): -- The statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at The State Anti-Fascist Council For The National Liberation Of Bosnia And Herzegovina (ZAVNOBIH). Z.A.V.N.O.B.i.H. declared both Bosnia and Herzegovina's will for the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia to be their country - not belonging to the Serbs, Muslims, or Croats, but rather one of equal rights for all its citizens. During World War II, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was occupied by the Axis powers, and control was split between Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria. The Partisan resistance to the occupiers was led by the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, which gathered support across all parts of the country. In November 1942, Josip Broz Tito assembled the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia (A.V.N.O.J.). Between November 25 and 26, 1943, the first session of the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina took place in Mrkonjic Grad, where they elected their representatives to partake in the second A.V.N.O.J. in the town of Jajce, Bosnia. They met on November 29 to decide what to do with Yugoslavia after the war. The Resolution of The State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Z.A.V.N.O.B.i.H.) declared the right to self-determination of the people, including Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, Montenegrins, and Macedonians, would become the basis of federal Yugoslavia, and they would live in six constituent republics with equal rights. Bosnia and Herzegovina was thus reestablished as a republic within the Yugoslavian federation within its Habsburg borders, and equal communities of Muslims (Bosniaks), Serbs, and Croats. The end of the war resulted in the establishment of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, with the constitution of 1946 officially making Bosnia and Herzegovina one of six constituent republics in the new state. The Law on the Proclamation of November 25 as the Statehood Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina, on the Official Gazette of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, No. 9/95, stipulates that that date is the Statehood Day of Bosnia and Herzegovina and that it's a national holiday that prohibits state bodies, legal entities, and enterprises from working on the day. https://store.earthstation1.com/marshal-josip-broz-tito-dvd-yugoslav-revolutionary-president.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The End Of Camelot: The Last 2 Months Of JFK DVD, MP4, USB Flash Drive
Today, November 25, 2025
November 25, 1963: United States Presidential Assassination Attempts And Plots: United States Presidential Assassinations: The Assassination Of John F. Kennedy: The State Funeral Of John F. Kennedy: -- Three days after his assassination, the Monday state funeral of John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, concludes after the Requiem Mass at St. Matthew's Cathedral when he is buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery with representatives from over 90 countries in attendance. The body of President Kennedy had been brought back to Washington soon after his death and was placed in the East Room of the White House for 24 hours. On the Sunday after the assassination, his flag-draped casket was carried on a horse-drawn caisson to the U.S. Capitol to lie in state. Throughout the day and night, hundreds of thousands lined up to view the guarded casket. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-end-of-camelot-the-last-2-months-of-jfk-dvd-mp4-u24.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Four Days In November (1964) DVD, Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, November 25, 2025
November 25, 1960: #BOTD: #HBD! John F. Kennedy Jr., often referred to as John-John or JFK Jr., American lawyer, journalist, and magazine publisher, son of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and a younger brother of Caroline Kennedy (d. July 16, 1999) is #born John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. at Georgetown University Hospital in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.. Three days after his father was assassinated, he rendered a final salute during the funeral procession on his third birthday. From his childhood years at the White House, Kennedy was the subject of much media scrutiny, and later became a popular social figure in Manhattan. Trained as a lawyer, he worked as a New York City assistant district attorney for almost four years. In 1995, he launched George magazine, using his political and celebrity status to publicize it. He died in The 1999 Martha's Vineyard Plane Crash (The John F. Kennedy Jr. Plane Crash) at the age of 38. The small plane he piloted took off at 8:38 p.m. from Fairfield, New Jersey, heading toward Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. His wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister Lauren were passengers on the 200 mile trip. The plane was expected to arrive about 10 p.m. but disappeared off radar at 9:40 p.m. Five days later, July 21, following an extensive search, the bodies were recovered from the plane wreckage in 116 feet of water roughly 7 miles off Martha's Vineyard. The next day, following an autopsy, the cremated remains of John F. Kennedy, 38, his wife Carolyn, 33, and her sister Lauren, 34, were scattered at sea from a U.S. Navy ship, with family members present, not far from where the plane had crashed. https://store.earthstation1.com/four-days-in-november-dvd-jfk-assassination-feature-film.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Korea: The Unknown War TV Korean War Series DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, November 25, 2025
November 25, 1952: Korea: The History Of Korea: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Korean Conflict: The Cold War (1947-1953): The Cold War In Asia: The Korean War: The Battle Of Triangle Hill (Operation Showdown, The Shangganling Campaign): -- After 42 days of fighting, The Battle Of Triangle Hill ends with Chinese victory; American and South Korean units abandon their attempt to capture the "Iron Triangle" for the rest of the war. The Battle Of Triangle Hill involved two United Nations (UN) infantry divisions, with additional support from the United States Air Force, against elements of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army (PVA) 15th and 12th Corps. The battle was part of UN attempts to gain control of the "Iron Triangle", a key communist Chinese and North Korean concentration area and communications junction located in the central sector between Cheorwon and Kimhwa in the south and Pyonggang in the north. Triangle Hill is a forested ridge of high ground 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) north of Gimhwa-eup. The hill was occupied by the veterans of the PVA's 15th Corps. Over the course of nearly a month, substantial US and Republic of Korea Army (ROK) forces made repeated attempts to capture Triangle Hill and the adjacent Sniper Ridge. Despite clear superiority in artillery and aircraft, the escalating UN casualties resulted in the attack being halted after 42 days of fighting, with PVA forces regaining their original positions. https://store.earthstation1.com/korea-the-unknown-war-dvd-complete-6-part-tv-series-3-dis63.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: V-Weapons: V-1 & V-2 Documentaries DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, November 25, 2025
November 25, 1944: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Western Front Of World War II: Wunderwaffen (German: "Wonder Weapons"); V-Weapons (German: Vergeltungswaffen, "Vengeance Weapons", "Retaliatory Weapons", "Reprisal Weapons"): The V-2 (The V-2 Rocket, German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, "Vengeance Weapon 2"; Aggregat 4, German: "Aggregate 4", A-4): -- #DOTD: #RIP: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop in London, England, killing 168 people and seriously injuring 121. V-2 rocket launching sites had been set up by the Germans around The Hague in the Netherlands on September 6, 1944. The first V-2 attack was launched from here against London on September 8, 1944 and took an estimated 5 minutes to fly the 200 miles (320 km) from the Hague to London, where it struck at 6:43pm on Chiswick, causing 13 casualties. As the V-2 explosions came without warning, the government initially attempted to conceal their cause by blaming them on defective gas mains. However, the public was not fooled and soon began sardonically referring to the V-2s as "Flying gas pipes". Intercepting the supersonic V-2 missiles in flight proved virtually impossible, and other countermeasures, such as bombing the launch sites, were fairly ineffectual. Sustained bombardment continued until March 1945. The final missiles arrived on March 27, 1945, with one of them killing 134 people and injuring 49 when it hit a block of flats in Stepney. https://store.earthstation1.com/vweapons-v1-v2-german-wwii-weapons-2-dual-layer-d122.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Fidel Castro Documentaries MP4 Video Download DVD Set
Today, November 25, 2025
November 25, 2016: #DOTD: Fidel Castro, Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008 (b. August 13, 1927) #dies in the night in Havana, Cuba of undisclosed causes, aged aged 90. He was cremated the next day. A funeral procession travelled 900 kilometres (560 mi) along the island's central highway from Havana to Santiago de Cuba, tracing in reverse, the route of the "Freedom Caravan" of January 1959 in which Castro and his rebels took power, and after nine days of public mourning, his ashes were entombed in the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery in Santiago de Cuba. He was born Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz in Biran (at that time part of Mayari), Oriente Province, Cuba. Castro was a Marxist-Leninist and Cuban nationalist who served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state, while industry and business were nationalized and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society. The son of a wealthy Spanish farmer, Castro adopted leftist anti-imperialist politics while studying law at the University of Havana. After participating in rebellions against right-wing governments in the Dominican Republic and Colombia, he planned the overthrow of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista, launching a failed attack on the Moncada Barracks in 1953. After a year's imprisonment, Castro traveled to Mexico where he formed a revolutionary group, The 26th Of July Movement (Spanish: Movimiento 26 Julio (M 26-7), with his brother Raul Castro and Che Guevara. Returning to Cuba, Castro took a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the Sierra Maestra. After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's Prime Minister. The United States came to oppose Castro's government and unsuccessfully attempted to remove him by assassination, economic blockade and counter-revolution, including the Bay Of Pigs Invasion of 1961. Countering these threats, Castro formed an alliance with the Soviet Union and allowed the Soviets to place nuclear weapons in Cuba, sparking the Cuban Missile Crisis - a defining incident of the Cold War - in 1962. Adopting a Marxist-Leninist model of development, Castro converted Cuba into a one-party, socialist state under Communist Party rule, the first in the Western Hemisphere. Policies introducing central economic planning and expanding healthcare and education were accompanied by state control of the press and the suppression of internal dissent. Abroad, Castro supported anti-imperialist revolutionary groups, backing the establishment of Marxist governments in Chile, Nicaragua and Grenada, as well as sending troops to aid allies in the Yom Kippur, Ogaden, and Angolan Civil War. These actions, coupled with Castro's leadership of the Non-Aligned Movement from 1979 to 1983 and Cuba's medical internationalism, increased Cuba's profile on the world stage. Following the Soviet Union's dissolution in 1991, Castro led Cuba through the economic downturn of the "Special Period", embracing environmentalist and anti-globalization ideas. In the 2000s, Castro forged alliances in the Latin American "pink tide" - namely with Hugo Chavez's Venezuela - and signed Cuba up to the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas. In 2006, Castro transferred his responsibilities to Vice President Raul Castro, who was elected to the presidency by the National Assembly in 2008. The longest-serving non-royal head of state in the 20th and 21st centuries, Castro polarized world opinion. His supporters view him as a champion of socialism and anti-imperialism whose revolutionary regime advanced economic and social justice while securing Cuba's independence from American imperialism. Critics view him as a dictator whose administration oversaw human-rights abuses, the exodus of a large number of Cubans and the impoverishment of the country's economy. Castro was decorated with various international awards and significantly influenced different individuals and groups across the world. https://store.earthstation1.com/fidel-castro-documentaries-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Great Depression 7 Part Documentary Series MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, November 25, 2025
November 25, 1968: #DOTD: #RIP: Upton Sinclair, American novelist, critic, essayist and Pulitzer Prize For Fiction recipient (b. September 20, 1878) #dies in a nursing home in Bound Brook, New Jersey, aged 89. He is buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, D.C., next to his third wife Mary Willis. Born Upton Beall Sinclair in Baltimore, Maryland, Sinclair wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair's work was well known and popular in the first half of the 20th century, and he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943. In 1906, Sinclair acquired particular fame for his classic muck-raking novel The Jungle, which exposed labor and sanitary conditions in the U.S. meatpacking industry, causing a public uproar that contributed in part to the passage a few months later of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act. In 1919, he published The Brass Check, a muck-raking expose of American journalism that publicized the issue of yellow journalism and the limitations of the "free press" in the United States. Four years after publication of The Brass Check, the first code of ethics for journalists was created, known as the Fourth Estate's Journalism Code of Practice (Accuracy, Independence, Impartiality, Integrity, Harm Minimization, Engagement, Accountability) authored by The Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corporation (also referred to as Fourth Estate), an international, non-partisan, human rights, membership organization dedicated to a strong free press. Time magazine called Sinclair "a man with every gift except humor and silence". He is also well remembered for the line: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it." He used this line in speeches and the book about his campaign for governor as a way to explain why the editors and publishers of the major newspapers in California would not treat seriously his proposals for old age pensions and other progressive reforms. Many of his novels can be read as historical works. Writing during the Progressive Era, Sinclair describes the world of industrialized America from both the working man's and the industrialist's points of view. Novels such as King Coal (1917), The Coal War (published posthumously), Oil! (1927), and The Flivver King (1937) describe the working conditions of the coal, oil, and auto industries at the time. The Flivver King describes the rise of Henry Ford, his "wage reform" and his company's Sociological Department, to his decline into antisemitism as publisher of The Dearborn Independent. King Coal confronts John D. Rockefeller Jr., and his role in the 1914 Ludlow Massacre in the coal fields of Colorado. Sinclair was an outspoken socialist and ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a nominee from the Socialist Party. He was also the Democratic Party candidate for Governor of California during the Great Depression, running under the banner of the End Poverty in California campaign, but was defeated in the 1934 elections. https://store.earthstation1.com/grde7padosem.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: War Props: The Martin B-26 Marauder DVD, MP4 Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, November 25, 2025
November 25, 1940: Aviation: The History Of Aviation: The History Of Military Aviation: Maiden Flights: Military Aviation Maiden Flights: -- The first flight of the Martin B-26 Marauder bomber (effectively the prototype) occurs with Martin test pilot William K. "Ken" Ebel at the controls,. Deliveries to the U.S. Army Air Corps began in February 1941 with the second aircraft, 40-1362. In March 1941, the Army Air Corps started Accelerated Service Testing of the B-26 at Patterson Field, near Dayton, Ohio. The Martin B-26 Marauder is an American twin-engined medium bomber that saw extensive service during World War II. The B-26 was built at two locations: Baltimore, Maryland, and Omaha, Nebraska, by the Glenn L. Martin Company. First used in the Pacific Theater of World War II in early 1942, it was also used in the Mediterranean Theater and in Western Europe. After entering service with the United States Army aviation units, the aircraft quickly received the reputation of a "widowmaker" due to the early models' high accident rate during takeoffs and landings. This was because the Marauder had to be flown at precise airspeeds, particularly on final runway approach or when one engine was out. The unusually high 150 mph (241 km/h) speed on short final runway approach was intimidating to many pilots who were used to much slower approach speeds, and whenever they slowed to speeds below those stipulated in the manual, the aircraft would often stall and crash. The B-26 became a safer aircraft once crews were re-trained, and after aerodynamics modifications (an increase of wingspan and wing angle-of-incidence to give better takeoff performance, and a larger vertical stabilizer and rudder). The Marauder ended World War II with the lowest loss rate of any U.S. Army Air Forces bomber. A total of 5,288 were produced between February 1941 and March 1945; 522 of these were flown by the Royal Air Force and the South African Air Force. By the time the United States Air Force was created as an independent military service separate from the United States Army in 1947, all Martin B-26s had been retired from U.S. service. After the Marauder was retired the unrelated Douglas A-26 Invader then assumed the "B-26" designation which led to confusion between the two aircraft. https://store.earthstation1.com/war-props-the-martin-b26-marauder-d26.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Caracol: The Lost Maya City + 2 Maya Bonuses MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, November 25, 2025
November 25, 1920: #BOTD: #HBD! Ricardo Montalban KSG, Mexican-American film and television actor, singer, voice artist and film director (d. January 14, 2009) is #born Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalban Y Merino in Mexico City. Montalban's career spanned seven decades, during which he became known for many performances in a variety of genres, from crime and drama to musicals and comedy. Among his more well-known roles, he portrayed Armando in the Planet of the Apes film series from the early 1970s, starring in both Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) and Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972). As the villain Khan Noonien Singh, a genetically enhanced human, he starred in both the original Star Trek television series (1967) and the film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). Ricardo Montalban played Mr. Roarke on the television series Fantasy Island (1977-1984). He won an Emmy Award for his role in the miniseries How the West Was Won (1978), and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 1993. Montalban was professionally active into his 80s, when he provided voices for documentaries, animated films and commercials, and appeared as Grandfather Valentin in the Spy Kids franchise. During the 1970s and '80s he was a spokesman in automobile advertisements for Chrysler, including those in which he extolled the "rich Corinthian leather" used for the Cordoba's interior. Ricardo Montalban died at his home in Los Angeles at the age of 88 of congestive heart failure. He is buried in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City, California. https://store.earthstation1.com/caracol-the-lost-maya-cityapocalypse-then-fall-of-the-maya-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Civil War Photographers DVD, MP4 Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, November 25, 2025
November 25, 1863: The American Civil War (The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Eastern Theater Of The American Civil War: The Chattanooga Campaign: The Battles Of Chattanooga: The Battle Of Missionary Ridge (The Battle Of Chattanooga): -- The Battle of Missionary Ridge is fought in the aftermath of the Union victory in the Battle Of Lookout Mountain on November 24. Union forces in the Military Division of the Mississippi under Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant assaulted Missionary Ridge and defeated the Confederate Army of Tennessee, commanded by Gen. Braxton Bragg, forcing it to retreat to Georgia. In the morning, elements of the Union Army Of The Tennessee commanded by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman attempted to capture the northern end of Missionary Ridge, Tunnel Hill, but were stopped by fierce resistance from the Confederate divisions of Maj. Gen. Patrick Cleburne, William H.T. Walker, and Carter L. Stevenson. In the afternoon, Grant was concerned that Bragg was reinforcing his right flank at Sherman's expense. He ordered the Army of the Cumberland, commanded by Maj. Gen. George Henry Thomas, to move forward and seize the Confederate line of rifle pits on the valley floor, and stop there to await further orders. The Union soldiers moved forward and quickly pushed the Confederates from the first line of rifle pits but were then subjected to a punishing fire from the Confederate lines up the ridge. At this point, the Union soldiers continued the attack against the remaining lines, seeking refuge near the crest of the ridge (the top line of rifle pits were sited on the actual crest rather than the military crest of the ridge, leaving blind spots). This second advance was taken up by the commanders on the spot, but also by some of the soldiers who, on their own, sought shelter from the fire further up the slope. The Union advance was disorganized but effective; finally overwhelming and scattering what ought to have been, as General Grant himself believed, an impregnable Confederate line. In combination with an advance from the southern end of the ridge by divisions under Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, the Union Army routed Bragg's army, which retreated to Dalton, Georgia, ending the siege of Union forces in Chattanooga, Tennessee. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-civil-war-photographers-dvd-rare-color-photos.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Dixiana (1930) Wheeler & Woolsey DVD, MP4 Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, November 25, 2025
November 25, 1949: #DOTD: #RIP: Bill Robinson, nicknamed Bojangles, African American tap dancer, actor, and singer, the best known and the most highly paid African American entertainer in the United States during the first half of the 20th century (b. May 25, 1878) #dies penniless on November 25, 1949, from heart failure. His funeral was arranged and paid for by longtime friend and television host Ed Sullivan. Robinson lay in repose at the 369th Infantry Regiment Armory in Harlem, where an estimated 32,000 people filed past his open casket to pay their last respects. The schools in Harlem were closed for a half-day so that children could attend or listen to the funeral, which was broadcast over the radio. Reverend Adam Clayton Powell Sr. conducted the service at the Abyssinian Baptist Church, and New York Mayor William O'Dwyer gave the eulogy. Robinson is buried in the Cemetery of the Evergreens, Brooklyn, New York. He was born Luther Robinson in Richmond, Virginia. His long career mirrored changes in American entertainment tastes and technology. His career began in the age of minstrel shows and moved to vaudeville, Broadway theatre, the recording industry, Hollywood films, radio, and television. According to dance critic Marshall Stearns, "Robinson's contribution to tap dance is exact and specific. He brought it up on its toes, dancing upright and swinging," adding a "hitherto-unknown lightness and presence." His signature routine was the Stair Dance, in which he would tap up and down a set of stairs in a rhythmically complex sequence of steps, a routine that he unsuccessfully attempted to patent. He is also credited with having popularized the word copacetic through his repeated use of it in vaudeville and radio appearances. He is best known today for his dancing with Shirley Temple in a series of films during the 1930s, and for starring in the musical Stormy Weather (1943), loosely based on his own life and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. He used his popularity to challenge and overcome numerous racial barriers. Robinson was one of the first minstrel and vaudeville performers to appear as Black without the use of blackface makeup, as well as one of the earliest Black performers to perform solo, overcoming vaudeville's two-colored rule. Additionally, he was an early Black headliner in Broadway shows. Robinson was the first Black performer to appear in a Hollywood film in an interracial dance team (with Shirley Temple in The Little Colonel, 1935), and the first Black performer to headline a mixed-race Broadway production. Robinson came under heavy criticism for his apparent tacit acceptance of racial stereotypes of the era, with some critics calling him an Uncle Tom. He strongly resented this, and his biographers suggested that critics were underestimating the difficulties faced by Black performers engaging with mainstream White culture at the time, and ignoring his many efforts to overcome racial prejudice. In his public life, Robinson led efforts to persuade the Dallas Police Department to hire its first Black policeman; lobby President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during World War II for more equal treatment of Black soldiers; and stage the first integrated public event in Miami, a fundraiser which was attended by both Black and White city residents. Robinson was a popular figure in both the Black and White entertainment worlds of his era, and is remembered for the support that he gave to fellow performers, including Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, Lena Horne, Jesse Owens and the Nicholas Brothers. Sammy Davis Jr. and Ann Miller credited him as a teacher and mentor, Miller saying that he "changed the course of my life." Gregory Hines produced and starred in a biographical movie about Robinson for which he won the NAACP Best Actor Award. Despite being the highest-paid Black performer of the time, Robinson died penniless in 1949, his funeral paid for by longtime friend Ed Sullivan. In 1989, Congress designated Robinson's birthday of May 25 as National Tap Dance Day. https://store.earthstation1.com/dixiana-dvd-wheeler-and-woolsey-vaudeville-comedy.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Flip Wilson 3 Comedy Albums Discount MegaSet MP3 CD Download USB Drive
Today, November 25, 2025
November 25, 1998: #DOTD: #RIP: Flip Wilson, African American comedian and actor best known for his television appearances during the late 1960s and the 1970s (b. December 8, 1933) #dies of liver cancer in Malibu, California, aged 64. His cremated remains are interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. Flip Wilson was born Clerow Wilson Jr. in Jersey City, New Jersey. From 1970 to 1974, Wilson hosted his own weekly variety series, The Flip Wilson Show, and introduced viewers to his recurring character Geraldine. The series earned Wilson a Golden Globe and two Emmy Awards, and at one point was the second highest rated show on network television. Wilson was the first African American to host a successful variety TV show. (Sammy Davis Jr. had had a short-lived variety show in 1966). In January 1972, Time magazine featured Wilson's image on its cover and named him "TV's first black superstar". Wilson released a number of comedy albums in the 1960s and 70s, and won a Grammy Award for his 1970 album The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress. After The Flip Wilson Show ended, Wilson kept performing and acting until the 1990s, though at a reduced schedule. He hosted a short-lived revival of People are Funny in 1984, and had the lead role in the 1985-1986 sitcom Charlie and Co. https://store.earthstation1.com/flip-wilson-comedy-album-discount-megaset-mp3-cd-download-us3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The History Of Jazz A Video Retrospective DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, November 25, 2025
November 25, 1970: #DOTD: #RIP: Albert Ayler, African American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer (b. July 13, 1936) #dies, found dead in New York City's East River, a presumed suicide, having disappeared on November 5, 1970, aged 34. For some time afterwards, rumors circulated that Ayler had been murdered, with a long-standing urban legend that the Mafia had tied him to a jukebox. He is buried at Highland Park Cemetery in Highland Hills, Ohio. Albert Ayler was born in Cleveland, Ohio. After early experience playing R & B and bebop, Ayler began recording music during the free jazz era of the 1960s. However, some critics argue that while Ayler's style is undeniably original and unorthodox, it does not adhere to the generally accepted critical understanding of free jazz. In fact, Ayler's style is difficult to categorize in any way, and it evoked incredibly strong and disparate reactions from critics and fans alike. His innovations have inspired subsequent jazz musicians. His trio and quartet records of 1964, such as Spiritual Unity and The Hilversum Session, show him advancing the improvisational notions of John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman into abstract realms where whole timbre, and not just mainly harmony with melody, is the music's backbone. His ecstatic music of 1965 and 1966, such as "Spirits Rejoice" and "Truth Is Marching In", has been compared by critics to the sound of a brass band, and involved simple, march-like themes which alternated with wild group improvisations and were regarded as retrieving jazz's pre-Louis Armstrong roots. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-history-of-jazz-by-billy-taylor-parts-i-amp-ii-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: WABC Radio Airchecks MP3 Collection 1960s-1980s DVD, MP3 Download, USB
Today, November 25, 2025
November 25, 1940: #BOTD: #HBD! Percy Sledge, African American R & B, soul and gospel singer (d. April 14, 2015) is #born Percy Tyrone Sledge in Leighton, Alabama. He is best known for the song "When a Man Loves a Woman", a No. 1 hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R & B singles charts in 1966. It was awarded a million-selling, Gold-certified disc from the RIAA. Having previously worked as a hospital orderly in the early 1960s, Sledge achieved his strongest success in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a series of emotional soul songs. In later years, Sledge received the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's Career Achievement Award. He was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2005. Percy Sledge died of liver cancer at his home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at the age of 74. His is interned in Baton Rouge's Heavenly Gates Cemetery. https://store.earthstation1.com/wabc-musicradio-shows-mp3-dvd-60s80s-am-360807775.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Black Stars In Orbit: The Black Astronauts Of NASA MP4 Download Or DVD
Today, November 25, 2025
November 25, 2007: #DOTD: #RIP: Dr. Robert E. Shurney, African American aerospace engineer at NASA, renowned for achievements critical to the success of the Apollo and Skylab programs, Director Of The Kennedy Space Center's Programs For Tool Useage In Space, inventor of the Zerogravity Toilet, Microgravity Furnance, designer of the Lunar Rover's aluminum tires, Seventh-Day Adventist deacon, community services leader, and longtime member of the Oakwood College church (b. December 29, 1921) #dies at his home in Huntsville, Alabama, aged 85. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. Robert E. Shurney was born Robert Ellerston Shurney in Dublin, Georgia to Vance Shurney (1900-1991) and St. Clair (Clara) Weston Shurney (1901-1930), Robert was the third of four children. His father, a veteran of World War I, was employed in the Dublin Lumber Company sawmill.1 Following the death of their mother in 1930 due to complications during pregnancy, Robert and his siblings were raised by grandparents in San Bernadino, California. As a teenager Robert discovered he had a talent for designing things, and worked as an auto mechanic. He wanted to become an engineer, but had to drop out of school in order to help support his family during the Depression years. Eventually he made his way to Huntsville, Alabama, where he studied and worked at Oakwood Junior College. He was inducted into the United States Army on November 13, 1943, serving as a medic in the European theater during World War II. Shurney married Susie Flynt (d. 1997), whom he met while a student at Oakwood, on May 16, 1946, two months after his discharge from the Army. They would have four children: Darrell, Glyndon, Glenn, and Ronald. The Shurneys lived in southern California for approximately three years. They then moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where Robert took a position as a maintenance engineer for Riverside Sanitarium and Hospital, an Adventist medical institution established to serve African Americans during the segregation era. While at Riverside, Shurney and his colleague Jonathan Walker led the hospital's maintenance staff in completing every phase of the construction of a new Adventist elementary school, except for the architectural plans. The school, intended primarily to provide Adventist education for the children of hospital employees, opened September 19, 1961. Shurney's inventive gift became evident when he designed and installed a rotational surgical lamp for the hospital. Dr. Carl Dent, Riverside's medical director, urged him to complete his college degree. Having long desired to pursue higher education, Shurney resolved to do so despite warnings from others about the obstacles he would face as a middle-aged Black man and father of four children. He pushed forward, graduating in 1962 with a bachelor of science degree in engineering and physics from Tennessee State University. After his graduation, Shurney's application for an engineering position at NASA was initially turned down. His sister-in-law, an acquaintance of Dr. and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr., informed them about his plight and the Kings in turn informed Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who contacted NASA on Shurney's behalf, as did Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., of New York. After a favorable interview, NASA hired Shurney in the fall of 1962 as a flight systems engineer at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. One of Shurney's first contributions at NASA was to work on the weight distribution of the massive Saturn V rocket. President John F. Kennedy's dream to send a man to the moon by the end of the 1960s was successful in part because of Robert Shurney's work. As test coordinator for flight operations, he directed crew training and research programs in aircraft-based weightlessness simulations to test human reactions. He spent 300-400 hours in weightless flight using NASA's modified KC-135 aircraft but, remarkably, never had to take motion sickness pills. One of Shurney's most notable contributions was designing wheels for the NASA lunar rover, or "moon buggy," that enabled Apollo 15, 16, and 17 astronauts to move easily across the moon's surface. His successful design, combining metal plates on the outside with mesh on the inside, made the wheels both strong and lightweight, giving the rover maximum traction while keeping the vehicle within weight specifications. He also helped design a solar shield to insulate spacecraft from the intense heat of the sun and a solar panel as a constant source of power. Shurney's standout achievements also included developing ways for astronauts to perform essential human functions in a zero gravity environment. He developed a binding agent to keep the astronauts food from flying apart while they were trying to eat it and designed utensils and storage containers for the food. He also helped invent space toilets for the Skylab missions. Shurney was relentless in his pursuit of education, and in the ever-changing world of NASA and space travel, such advancement was essential. "During my time as an aerospace engineer, I kept abreast of new innovations in space by attending many colleges and universities, including Meharry Medical College, Howard University, the University of Michigan, the University of Alabama and the University of Oklahoma," he stated. He also published several NASA Technical Memorandums and Papers on findings in microgravity research for leading scientific journals. A graduate again at the age of 64, Shurney completed his Ph.D. in physics from Columbia Pacific University, San Rafael, California, in 1986. Throughout his years at NASA, Shurney's involvement in the Adventist church remained strong. He served as a deacon and held other offices in the Oakwood College church. He spoke at several Adventist colleges, including Andrews University where he lectured for Black History week in 1978. He was a vigorous fundraiser for Oakwood and active in the J. L. Moran Chapter of the Oakwood College Alumni Association. After 28 years with NASA, Shurney retired in 1990. He and his wife Susie continued residing in Huntsville. They helped to establish the Adventist Community Services Center in the city. In fact, Shurney's daily routine in retirement, for several days out of the week, revolved around collection and distribution of food and other items donated for the center. He remained active after Susie's death in 1997. The Dr. Robert Shurney Legacy Center in Huntsville, Alabama includes an 11-acre campus with walking trails, pickleball courts, pavilions, park area, a gymnasium, and the North Huntsville Public Library. https://store.earthstation1.com/black-stars-in-orbit-the-black-astronauts-of-nasa-mp4-download-or-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: WPIX at 40! (1988) New York City's TV Channel 11 DVD, Download, USB
Today, November 25, 2025
November 25, 1951: #BOTD: #HBD! Bucky Dent, American former Major League Baseball player and manager is #born Russell Earl O'Dey in Savannah, Georgia. He earned two World Series rings as the starting shortstop for the New York Yankees in 1977 and 1978, both over the Los Angeles Dodgers in six games, and he was voted the World Series Most Valuable Player Award in 1978. Dent is most famous for his home run in a tie-breaker game against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park at the end of the 1978 regular season. https://store.earthstation1.com/wpix-at-40-channel-11-nyc-1988-tv-retrospec40111988.html

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Today, November 25, 2025
November 25, 2018: #DOTD: #RIP: Wright King, American sailor, film and television actor whose career lasted from 1949 until 1987 (b. January 11, 1923) #dies or natural causes in Canoga Park, Los Angeles at the age of 95. He is buried at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland, Oregon. Born Thomas Wright Thornburg King in Okmulgee in east central Oklahoma, he is best known for playing Duckweather on Johnny Jupiter (ABC version, 1953-1954) and for playing Jason Nichols in the television series Wanted Dead or Alive (1958-1961). He studied acting at the St Louis School of Theater, from which he graduated in 1941, before enlisting in the United States Navy during World War II, in which he served in the South Pacific campaign from 1943 to 1945. King made his small screen debut in 1949 as Midshipman Bascomb in the television series, Captain Video and His Video Rangers. Throughout his career, he worked in both the United States and in the United Kingdom. King was cast in numerous westerns and is particularly known for his role in the 1951 film adaptation of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, starring Vivien Leigh (whom his character kisses). Prior to that, he had appeared in the original stage production, a performance which was lauded by drama critic Harold Hobson. In 1958 King appeared as The Kiowa Kid/Nevada Jones on the TV western Cheyenne in the episode "Ghost of the Cimarron.". In 1957 King starred as Joe Digger, a falsely accused horse thief who was hung but saved, then hung again after he killed one of his original hangers in the Gunsmoke episode "Born To Hang". King also appeared in eleven episodes of the television series Wanted Dead or Alive starring Steve McQueen, often playing a young sidekick named Jason Nichols. Other noteworthy film credits included roles in Cast a Long Shadow (1959), King Rat (1965), Planet of the Apes (1968), Finian's Rainbow (1968) and Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973). In 1974, he played U.S. Senator Richard B. Russell Jr. of Georgia in the TV movie The Missiles of October, a dramatization of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. He appeared in the television series Johnny Jupiter, was in two episodes of the TV series The Silent Service (S01 E10 "The Pampanito" and S01 E20 "The Squailfish") and was the partner of Steve McQueen for several episodes during a season of Wanted Dead or Alive. He appeared with Richard Boone in Have Gun Will Travel in the episodes "Helen of Abajinan" and "A Knight to Remember". King married June Ellen Roth in 1948. The couple had their first child the next year. https://store.earthstation1.com/johnny-jupiter-1950s-childrens-tv-scifi-puppet-show-dvd-mp19504.html

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Today, November 25, 2025
November 25, 1905: #BOTD: #HBD! Emlyn Williams, Welsh author, playwright, screenwriter and actor (d. September 25, 1987) is #born George Emlyn Williams into a Welsh-speaking, working class family at 1 Jones Terrace, Pen-y-ffordd, Ffynnongroyw, Flintshire. George Emlyn Williams CBE was the eldest of the three surviving sons of Mary (nee Williams) a former maid-servant and Richard Williams, a greengrocer. He spoke only Welsh until the age of eight. Later he said he would probably have begun working in the mines at age 12 if he had not caught the attention of Sarah Grace Cooke, the model for Miss Moffat in The Corn Is Green. She was a teacher of French at the grammar school in Holywell, Flintshire in 1915, where Williams had gone on a scholarship. Over the next seven years she encouraged him in his studies and helped pay for him to stay with a French friend of hers in Haute-Savoie in France, where he spent three months perfecting his French. When he was 17 she helped him win a scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford, where he studied French and Italian. In 1926, during his studies at university, Williams had a nervous breakdown, which was blamed largely on a failed emotional friendship with another undergraduate. As a means of recovery Miss Cooke encouraged him to write. However, Williams intended to enter the theatrical world too and joined the Oxford University Dramatic Society (OUDS). He performed with the OUDS in his first full-length play, Full Moon, at the original Oxford Playhouse in 1927, and later that year he joined a London-based repertory company and began his stage career. By 1930, he had expanded his writing with works such as A Murder Has Been Arranged and The Late Christopher Bean. The same year he appeared in Edgar Wallace's hit thriller On the Spot in the West End. Over the next few years, Williams took on roles on stage and on film, including the first celluloid version of the Edgar Wallace mystery, The Frightened Lady. He became an overnight star, however, with his thriller Night Must Fall (1935), in which he also played the lead role of a psychopathic murderer. The play was noted for its exploration of the killer's complex psychological state, a step forward for its genre. It was made into a film in 1937 with Robert Montgomery, and again in 1964 with Albert Finney. It has been frequently revived, most recently in the West End with Jason Donovan, and on Broadway in 1999 with Matthew Broderick. His other great play was very different: The Corn Is Green (1938), partly based on his own childhood in Wales. He starred as a Welsh schoolboy in the play's London premiere. The play came to Broadway in 1940 with Ethel Barrymore as the schoolteacher Miss Moffat. A 1950 Broadway revival starred Eva La Gallienne. The play was turned into a film starring Bette Davis, and again into a made-for-television film starring Katharine Hepburn, under the direction of Williams's close friend George Cukor. An attempt to turn the play into a musical in the 1970s, with Davis again in the role of the schoolteacher with lyrics by Williams, failed. So did a Broadway revival in 1983 starring Cicely Tyson and Peter Gallagher. But a 1985 London revival at the Old Vic with Deborah Kerr was successful, as was a 2007 production at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts. That production starred Kate Burton. Williams was a close friend of Kate's parents, Richard Burton and Burton's first wife, Sybil. In the Williamstown production, the schoolboy - the role created by and modeled on Williams himself - was played by Kate Burton's son, Morgan Ritchie. His autobiographical light comedy, The Druid's Rest was first performed at the St Martin's Theatre, London, in 1944. It saw the stage debut of Richard Burton whom Williams had spotted at an audition in Cardiff. The play has been revived at Clwyd Theatr Cymru in both 1976 and 2005, and received its first London revival in sixty years at London's Finborough Theatre in 2009. In addition to stage plays, Williams wrote a number of film screenplays, working with Alfred Hitchcock (on The Man Who Knew Too Much), Carol Reed and other directors. He acted in and contributed dialogue to various films based on the novels of A. J. Cronin, including The Citadel (1938), The Stars Look Down (1939), Hatter's Castle (1942) and Web of Evidence (1959). He played the mad Roman emperor Caligula in an uncompleted 1937 film version of Robert Graves's novel I, Claudius (with Charles Laughton); a kindly veterinarian who accidentally causes the death of a murderess (played by Bette Davis) in the 1952 suspense drama Another Man's Poison; and the fool Wamba in the 1952 Ivanhoe (with Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor). Other screen credits include Hitchcock's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn (with Charles Laughton), Gabriel Pascal's film version of George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara (with Wendy Hiller and Rex Harrison), Jose Ferrer's I Accuse! (playing Emile Zola), The Wreck of the Mary Deare (with Gary Cooper), The L-Shaped Room (with Leslie Caron), and a made-for-TV adaptation of Charles Dickens's David Copperfield (with an all-star cast including Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Ralph Richardson and Edith Evans). In 1941 Williams starred in the film You Will Remember, directed by Jack Raymond and written by Sewell Stokes and Lydia Hayward. The film is based on the life of the popular late Victorian songwriter Leslie Stuart, played here by Robert Morley, with Williams as Stuart's best friend. Also in 1941, he had a principal supporting part (as Snobby Price) in Gabriel Pascal's filming of George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara. His only film as a director, The Last Days of Dolwyn (1949), which he also wrote and starred in, marked the screen debut of his fellow Welshman, Richard Burton. Williams often appeared in his own plays, and was famous for his one-man-shows, with which he toured the world, playing Charles Dickens in an evening of excerpts from Dickens' novels. This "one man show" was the start of a whole new theatrical genre. He followed up his Dickens performance with one man shows based on the works of Dylan Thomas, Dylan Thomas Growing Up, and H.H. Munro better known under his pseudonym Saki. His post-war acting credits included The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan and The Deputy aka The Representative by Rolf Hochhuth on Broadway. He also was the "voice" of Lloyd George in the seminal BBC documentary The Great War (1964). Among Williams' other books was the best seller Beyond Belief: A Chronicle of Murder and its Detection (1968), a semi-fictionalised account of the Moors murderers, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley. His 1980 novel Headlong, the fictional story of the unexpected death of the entire British royal family in a freak accident in 1930, and the ascension of a most unlikely heir to the British throne as a result, was the loose basis of the 1991 motion picture King Ralph. On Monday 17 February 1975 Williams was Roy Plomley's guest on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4. The author's book choice was a dictionary with a typewriter, pen and paper combined as his luxury. Williams appeared as an eccentric artist in the 1983 Thames Television production, Rumpole and the Genuine Article. When the regular actors in this series turned up for the first read-through of this episode, they were astonished when guest star Williams handed each of them a new version of the script written by himself, keeping to the broad outlines of the story, but rewriting the dialogue and giving himself rather more lines. No-one had asked him to do this, and he was carefully informed in no uncertain terms that the John Mortimer original script would be used with no alteration. He complied. Williams was married in 1935 to actress Mary Marjorie O'Shann (Molly Shan), who died in 1970. They had two sons, Alan, a writer, and Brook, an actor. Brook Williams became a close friend of Richard Burton's, working as Burton's personal assistant and appearing in many of Burton's films. Both during his marriage and following his wife's death, Williams was actively bisexual throughout his adult life. He maintained a relationship from 1981 to 1986 with American theatre journalist Albert N. Williams whom Emlyn met while appearing at the Northlight Theatre in the Chicago area with his one-man Charles Dickens show. (Albert Williams served as Emlyn Williams' personal assistant during a 1982 tour of England, Wales and Ireland with the Charles Dickens and Dylan Thomas solo shows.) Emlyn Williams died at his flat in Dovehouse Street, Chelsea, London, from complications from bowel cancer, aged 81. He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium in London, England, where his ashes are interred. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-last-days-of-dolwyn-aka-women-of-dolwyn-richard-burton-dvd.html

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Today, November 25, 2025
November 25, 1823: #BOTD: Henry Wirz, Swiss-American Major of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, superintendent of prison Camp Sumter in Andersonville, Georgia (d. November 10, 1865) is #born Heinrich Hartmann Wirz in Zurich, Switzerland. Wirz was the commandant of the stockade of Camp Sumter, also known as Andersonville Prison, a Confederate prisoner-of-war camp near Andersonville, Georgia where terrible conditions led to a high mortality rate of Union detainees. The camp was overcrowded to four times its capacity, with an inadequate water supply, inadequate food rations, and unsanitary conditions. Of the approximately 45,000 Union prisoners held at Camp Sumter during the war, nearly 13,000 died. The chief causes of death were scurvy, diarrhea, and dysentery. The Andersonville National Historic Site currently preserves the camp as well as the Andersonville National Cemetery and the National Prisoner of War Museum. Henry Wirz died by hanging aged 41 as one of only three American Civil War soldiers to be executed for war crimes. He is buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington, D.C.. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-divided-union-american-civil-war-tv-series-3-dual-layer-dvd3.html

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Today, November 25, 2025
November 25, 1933: #BOTD: #HBD! Kathryn Crosby, American actress and singer who performed in films under the stage names Kathryn Grant and Kathryn Grandstaff, second and last wife of Bing Crosby (September 20, 2024) is #born Olive Kathryn Grandstaff in West Columbia, Texas. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1955. Two years later she became Bing Crosby's second wife, being more than thirty years his junior. The couple had three children, Harry, Mary Frances, and Nathaniel. She appeared as a guest star on her husband's 1964-1965 ABC sitcom The Bing Crosby Show. Crosby largely retired from acting after her marriage, but did have featured roles as Princess Parisa in The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958), and in the courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder (1959). She also played the part of "Mama Bear" alongside her husband and children in Goldilocks and co-starred with Jack Lemmon in the comedy Operation Mad Ball (1957), with Tony Curtis in the drama Mister Cory (1957) and as a trapeze artist in The Big Circus (1959). In the mid-1970s, she hosted The Kathryn Crosby Show, a 30-minute local talk-show on KPIX-TV in San Francisco. Husband Bing appeared as a guest occasionally. Since Bing Crosby's death in 1977, she has taken on a few smaller roles and the lead in the short-lived 1996 Broadway musical State Fair. In the 1960s, Crosby studied for and received her nursing degree at the Queen of Angels Hospital in Los Angeles. For 16 years ending in 2001, Crosby hosted the Crosby National Golf Tournament at Bermuda Run Country Club in Bermuda Run, North Carolina. A nearby bridge carrying U.S. Route 158 over the Yadkin River is named for Kathryn Crosby. On November 4, 2010, Crosby was seriously injured in an automobile accident in the Sierra Nevada that killed her 85-year-old second husband, Maurice William Sullivan, whom she had married in 2000. Crosby died in Hillsborough, California, U.S. at the age of 90. She is interred in the Crosby family plot at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City. https://store.earthstation1.com/a-king-family-christmas-old-time-yuletide-television-special-dvd.html

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Today, November 25, 2025
November 25, 2022: #DOTD: #RIP: Irene Cara, Latina African American singer, songwriter, actress, dancer, producer and beauty (b. March 18, 1962) #dies at her home in Largo, Florida, at the age of 63. The official cause of death was determined to be arteriosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease. Her remains were cremated; the final disposition of her ashes are not known. Irene Cara was born Irene Cara Escalera in the Bronx, New York City where she was raised by her father, Gaspar Cara, a Puerto Rican steel factory worker and retired saxophonist, and her mother, Louise Escalera, a Cuban movie theater usher. In 1971-1972, Irene Cara was a beloved regular on PBS's educational program The Electric Company as a member of the Short Circus, the show's band. Television brought Cara international acclaim for serious dramatic roles in Roots: The Next Generations and Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones. John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 28, named her one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1976"; that same year, a readers' poll in Right On! magazine named her Top Actress. She rose to international prominence for her role as Coco Hernandez in the 1980 musical film Fame, and for recording the film's title song "Fame", which reached No. 1 in several countries. In 1983, Cara co-wrote and sang the song "Flashdance... What a Feeling" (from the film Flashdance), for which she shared an Academy Award for Best Original Song and won a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1984. Before her success with Fame, Cara portrayed the title character Sparkle Williams in the original 1976 musical drama film Sparkle. In 1993, a California jury awarded her 1.5M USD from a 1985 lawsuit she filed against record executive Al Coury and Network Records, accusing them of withholding royalties from the Flashdance soundtrack and her first two solo records. Cara stated that, as a result, she was labeled as being difficult to work with and that the music industry "virtually blacklisted" her. https://store.earthstation1.com/guyana-tragedy-the-story-of-jim-jones-dvd-2-disc-se2.html