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Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: United Nations Documentaries Set DVD MP4 Download USB Drive
Today, December 10, 2025

December 10: Human Rights Day: -- December 10, 1948: The General Assembly of the United Nations adopts and proclaims the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a historic document consisting of 30 articles affirming an individual's rights which, although not legally binding in themselves, have been elaborated in subsequent international treaties, economic transfers, regional human rights instruments, national constitutions, and other laws. It was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its third session as Resolution 217 at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, France. Of the then 58 members of the United Nations, 48 voted in favor, none against, eight abstained, and two did not vote. The declaration was drafted by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Drafting Committee, chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt. She supported the adoption of the Declaration as a declaration rather than as a treaty because she believed that it would have the same kind of influence on global society as the United States Declaration Of Independence had within the United States. She proved correct. Though it is not legally binding, the Declaration has been adopted in or has influenced most national constitutions since 1948. It has also served as the foundation for a growing number of national laws, international laws, and treaties, as well as for a growing number of regional, sub national, and national institutions protecting and promoting human rights. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/united-nations-documentaries-set-dvd-mp4-download-usb-driv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Super Sense Animal Perception/Plant Adaptation TV Series DVD, MP4, USB
Today, December 10, 2025

December 10: International Animal Rights Day: -- The rights of our animal friends are celebrated today, a holiday is shared with Human Rights Day, as it should be, because animals have the right to be treated with respect, and acts of cruelty against them need to end just as much as for humans. For hundreds of years, man has been killing and mistreating animals for personal gain. Whether it is in the exploitation of meat, or animal fur for the sake of fashion and art, the justification that it is done out of necessity has really been pushed. In 1948, the UN passed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, following the torture subjected to humans during World War II in concentration camps by Nazi Germany. After this, organizations, associations, and individuals from around the world started demanding that this declaration should be extended to the animal kingdom and that December 10 should also be a day for advocating the rights of animals. 22 years after the UN passed their historic declaration, the word "speciesism" was coined in 1970, to discuss and encourage dialogue on the discrimination against sentient beings based on their species. The whole idea that animals are inferior and live for the sole purpose of catering to the needs and wants of humans is an irrational prejudice against them. Just as certain segments of the human race are suffering due to sexism and racism, animals suffer just as much, if not more, because they can't defend themselves. Despite the coining of this term, it wasn't until 1998 when an official statement was passed for animal rights. Uncaged, which is an animal protection organization, created International Animal Rights Day to shed light on all types of violence against animals. The founders behind this day stated that, since animals cannot protest, vote, or advocate for their own protection, it is the responsibility of humans to do it for them. December 10 was intentionally chosen so that International Animal Rights Day falls on the same day as Human Rights Day. Since then, events, demonstrations, and fundraisers, often covered by traditional media, have been organized worldwide to expose the reality of animal abuse and exploitation. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/super-sense--animal-perception-tv-series-dvd-mp4-download-usb-driv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Machine That Changed The World: The Computer DVD MP4 Download
Today, December 10, 2025

December 10: Ada Lovelace Day: -- December 10, 1815: #BOTD: #HBD! Ada Lovelace, English mathematician, writer and metaphysician, the only legitimate child of poet Lord Byron, regarded as the first computer programmer based on her notes for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine and for being the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation (d. November 27, 1852) is #born Augusta Ada Byron in London, England to Lord Byron and Lady Byron. Ada Lovelace Day was founded in her honor to highlight the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, and to promote programs that encourage girls and women to pursue careers in STEAM ((S)cience, (T)echnology, (A)rt, (E)ngineering and Mathematics). Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace. Lord Byron separated from his wife a month after Ada was born and left England forever, dying in Greece when Ada was eight. Her mother remained bitter and promoted Ada's interest in mathematics and logic in an effort to prevent her from developing her father's perceived insanity. Despite this, Ada remained interested in him, naming her two sons Byron and Gordon. Upon her death, she was buried next to him at her request. Although often ill in her childhood, Ada pursued her studies assiduously. She married William King in 1835. King was made Earl of Lovelace in 1838, Ada thereby becoming Countess of Lovelace. Her educational and social exploits brought her into contact with scientists such as Andrew Crosse, Charles Babbage, Sir David Brewster, Charles Wheatstone, Michael Faraday, and the author Charles Dickens, contacts which she used to further her education. Ada described her approach as "poetical science" and herself as an "Analyst ( & Metaphysician)". When she was eighteen, her mathematical talents led her to a long working relationship and friendship with fellow British mathematician Charles Babbage, who is known as "the father of computers". She was in particular interested in Babbage's work on the Analytical Engine. Lovelace first met him in June 1833, through their mutual friend, and her private tutor, Mary Somerville. Between 1842 and 1843, Ada translated an article by the military engineer Luigi Menabrea (later Prime Minister of Italy) about the Analytical Engine, supplementing it with an elaborate set of seven notes, simply called "Notes". Lovelace's notes are important in the early history of computers, especially since the seventh one contained what many consider to be the first computer program-that is, an algorithm designed to be carried out by a machine. Other historians reject this perspective and point out that Babbage's personal notes from the years 1836/1837 contain the first programs for the engine. She also developed a vision of the capability of computers to go beyond mere calculating or number-crunching, while many others, including Babbage himself, focused only on those capabilities. Her mindset of "poetical science" led her to ask questions about the Analytical Engine (as shown in her notes) examining how individuals and society relate to technology as a collaborative tool. Lovelace died at the age of 36 in in Marylebone, London, England from uterine cancer. The illness lasted several months, in which time her daughter Annabella took command over whom Ada saw, and excluded all of her friends and confidants. Under her mother's influence, Ada had a religious transformation and was coaxed into repenting of her previous conduct and making Annabella her executor. She lost contact with her husband after confessing something to him on August 30 which caused him to abandon her bedside. It is not known what she told him. She was buried, at her request, next to her father at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene in Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. A memorial plaque, written in Latin, to her and her father is in the chapel attached to Horsley Towers. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-machine-that-changed-the-world-the-computer-dvd-mp4-downloa4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Nobel Century Nobel Prize History TV Series DVD, MP4, USB Stick
Today, December 10, 2025

December 10: Nobel Prize Day: -- December 10, 1896: #DOTD: #RIP: Alfred Nobel, Swedish businessman, chemist, engineer, inventor, and philanthropist, inventor of Dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prize (b. October 21, 1833) #dies aged 63 in Sanremo, Liguria, Kingdom of Italy when he suffered a stroke/intracerebral hemorrhage. Based on his experimentation with explosives, his strenuous work habit, and the decline in his health at the end of the 1870s, some hypothesize that nitroglycerine poisoning was a contributing factor to his death at a premature age. He is buried in Norra begravningsplatsen in Stockholm. His will stipulated that income from his 9M USD estate be used for awards recognizing persons who have made valuable contributions to humanity. Alfred Nobel was born Alfred Bernhard Nobel in Stockholm, Sweden, the third son of Immanuel Nobel (1801-1872), an inventor and engineer, and Karolina Andriette (Ahlsell) Nobel (1805-1889). Alfred Bernhard Nobel held 355 different patents, dynamite being the most famous. The synthetic element nobelium was named after him. He owned Bofors, which he had redirected from its previous role as primarily an iron and steel producer to a major manufacturer of cannon and other armaments; his 40 MM anti-aircraft guns would be the weapon of choice of combatants on all sides of the Second World War. His name survives in companies such as Dynamit Nobel and AkzoNobel, which are descendants of mergers with companies that Nobel established. After he read a premature obituary which condemned him for profiting from the sales of arms, he resolved to bequeath his fortune to institute the Nobel Prize. In his letters to his mistress, Hess, Nobel described constant pain, debilitating migraines, and "paralyzing" fatigue, leading some to believe that he suffered from fibromyalgia. However, his concerns at the time were dismissed as hypochondria, leading to further depression. By 1895, Nobel had developed angina pectoris, and on. November 27, 1895, he finalized his will and testament, leaving most of his wealth in trust, unbeknownst to his family, to fund the Nobel Prize awards. Nobel recipients are chosen by a committee of the Norwegian parliament. Prizes for Peace, Physics, Chemistry, Medicine, Literature and Economics are presented annually in a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, on the anniversary of his death. Each prize is valued at about 1M USD. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-nobel-century-nobel-prize-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-us4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Frederick Douglass Biography Documentary DVD MP4 Download USB Drive
Today, December 10, 2025

December 10, 1805: #BOTD: #HBD! William Lloyd Garrison, who signed and printed his name Wm. Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist, publisher, journalist, suffragist, social reformer and activist, founder in 1831 of the widely-read Boston anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator published for the next fifty years (d. May 24, 1879) is #born in Newburyport, Massachusetts, the son of immigrants from the British colony of New Brunswick, in present-day Canada. He was one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, and promoted immediate and uncompensated, as opposed to gradual and compensated, emancipation of slaves in the United States. He also traveled throughout the U.S. delivering scathing antislavery speeches, even advocating the North should secede from the South. In 1854, he burned a copy of the U.S. Constitution, declaring, "So perish all compromises with tyranny!" Garrison was not an abolitionist who became a publisher, but a printer who became an abolitionist. Garrison was a typesetter and could run a printing shop; he wrote his editorials in The Liberator while setting them in type, without writing them out first on paper. This helped assure the viability of The Liberator, and also that it contained exactly what Garrison wanted, as he did not have to deal with any outsiders to produce his paper, except his partner Isaac Knapp, with whom he eventually had a falling-out. Like the other major abolitionist printer-publisher, the martyred Elijah Lovejoy, a price was on his head; he was burned in effigy and a gallows was erected in front of his Boston office. While he was relatively safe in Boston, at one point he had to be smuggled onto a ship to escape to England, where he remained for a year. Garrison also emerged as a leading advocate of women's rights, which prompted a split in the abolitionist community. In the 1870s, Garrison became a prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement. William Lloyd Garrison died at his daughter Fanny's New York City home of kidney disease just before midnight, aged 73. Garrison was buried in the Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood on May 28, 1879. At the public memorial service, eulogies were given by Theodore Dwight Weld and Wendell Phillips. Eight abolitionist friends, both white and black, served as his pallbearers. Flags were flown at half-staff all across Boston. Frederick Douglass, then employed as a United States Marshal, spoke in memory of Garrison at a memorial service in a church in Washington, D.C., saying, "It was the glory of this man that he could stand alone with the truth, and calmly await the result." https://store.earthstation1.com/frederick-douglass-biography-documentary-dvd-mp4-download-usb-driv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Emily Dickinson Documentary DVD, Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, December 10, 2025

December 10, 1830: #BOTD: #HBD! Emily Dickinson, American poet and author (d. May 15, 1886) is #born Emily Elizabeth Dickinson at the prominent Dickinson family's Dickinson Homestead in Amherst, Massachusetts. Little known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry, and widely considered the greatest female writer in the English language. After studying at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she briefly attended the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Evidence suggests that Dickinson lived much of her life in isolation. Considered an eccentric by locals, she developed a penchant for white clothing and was known for her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, to even leave her bedroom. Dickinson never married, and most friendships between her and others depended entirely upon correspondence. While Dickinson was a prolific writer, her only publications during her lifetime were 10 of her nearly 1,800 poems, and one letter. The poems published then were usually edited significantly to fit conventional poetic rules. Her poems were unique to her era. They contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends, and also explore aesthetics, society, nature and spirituality. Although Dickinson's acquaintances were most likely aware of her writing, it was not until after her death in 1886 - when Lavinia, Dickinson's younger sister, discovered her cache of poems locked in her bureau, written on the backs of envelopes and scraps of paper - that the breadth of her work became public. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1890 by personal acquaintances Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, though both heavily edited the content. A 1998 New York Times article revealed that of the many edits made to Dickinson's work, the name "Susan" was often deliberately removed. At least eleven of Dickinson's poems were dedicated to sister-in-law Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson, though all the dedications were obliterated, presumably by Todd. Emily Dickinson died of Bright's disease at the Dickinson Family home in Amherst, Massachusetts at the age of 55. She is buried at West Cemetery in Amherst, Massachusetts. A complete, and mostly unaltered, collection of her poetry became available for the first time when scholar Thomas H. Johnson published The Poems of Emily Dickinson in 1955. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/emily-dickinson-dvd-biography-poetry-documentary.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Spanish-American War & Cuban War Of Independence DVD, Download, USB
Today, December 10, 2025

December 10, 1898: The Decolonisation Of Asia: The Decolonization Of The Americas: The 1896 Philippine Revolution: The Cuban War Of Independence (The Necessary War): The Spanish-American War: The Treaty Of Paris (The Treaty Of Peace Between The United States Of America And The Kingdom Of Spain, The Treaty of Paris Of 1898, Filipino: Kasunduan Sa Paris Ng 1898; Spanish: Tratado De Paris De 1898): -- The Treaty Of Paris is signed between American and Spanish representatives, bringing an end to The Spanish-American War. Under the terms of the treaty, Spain relinquished all claims of sovereignty over and title to Cuba, and also ceded Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States. The cession of the Philippines involved a compensation of 20M USD from the United States to Spain. The treaty came into effect on April 11, 1899, when the documents of ratification were exchanged. The treaty passed by a single vote in the U.S. Senate on February 6, 1899, and was signed by President William McKinley four days later. It was the first treaty negotiated between the two governments since the 1819 Adams-Onis Treaty. The Treaty Of Paris marked the end of the Spanish Empire, apart from some small holdings in Northern Africa and several islands and territories around the Gulf of Guinea, also in Africa. It marked the beginning of the United States as a world power. Many supporters of the war opposed the treaty, which became one of the major issues in the election of 1900 when it was opposed by Democrat William Jennings Bryan, who opposed imperialism. Republican President William McKinley supported the treaty and was easily reelected. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/spanishamerican-war-films-dvd.html

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Today, December 10, 2025

December 10, 1936: The United Kingdom: The History Of The United Kingdom: Governments Of The United Kingdom: The Monarchy Of The United Kingdom (The British Monarchy): Royal Abdications: The Abdication OF King Edward VIII: -- Great Britain's King Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication. A constitutional crisis in the British Empire arose when King-Emperor Edward VIII proposed to marry Wallis Simpson, an American socialite who was divorced from her first husband and was pursuing a divorce of her second. The marriage was opposed by the governments of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth. Religious, legal, political and moral objections were raised. As British monarch, Edward was the nominal head of the Church of England, which did not then allow divorced people to remarry in church if their ex-spouses were still alive. For this reason, it was widely believed that Edward could not marry Simpson and remain on the throne. Simpson was perceived to be politically and socially unsuitable as a prospective queen consort because of her two failed marriages. It was widely assumed by the Establishment that she was driven by love of money or position rather than love for the King. Despite the opposition, Edward declared that he loved Simpson and intended to marry her whether his governments approved or not. The widespread unwillingness to accept Simpson as the King's consort and Edward's refusal to give her up led to his abdication in December 1936. He was succeeded by his brother George VI. Edward was given the title His Royal Highness the Duke of Windsor following his abdication, and he married Simpson the following year. They remained married until his death 35 years later. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-old-time-radio-history-megaset-dual-layer-mp3-dv3.html

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Today, December 10, 2025

December 10, 1941: World War II: The Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Asiatic-Pacific Theater, The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of World War II: The Sinking Of Prince Of Wales And Repulse (Japanese: Mare-Oki Kaisen, "The Battle Off Malaya" (The Naval Battle Of Malaya)): -- The British capital ship battleships HMS Repulse and HMS Prince Of Wales are sunk by land-based Imperial Japanese Navy bombers and torpedo bombers in the South China Sea near British Malaya, killing nearly 800 crewmen. The objective of Force Z, which consisted of the battleship HMS Prince Of Wales, the battlecruiser HMS Repulse, and the four destroyers HMS Electra, HMS Express, HMS Encounter and HMS Jupiter, was to intercept the Japanese invasion fleet in the South China Sea north of Malaya. The task force sailed without air support. Although the British had a close encounter with Japanese heavy surface units, the force failed to find and destroy the main convoy. On their return to Singapore they were attacked in open waters and sunk by long-range torpedo bombers. The commander of Force Z, Admiral Sir Tom Phillips, elected to maintain radio silence and an alert was only sent (by the Repulse) one hour after the first Japanese attack. With the attack on Pearl Harbor only three days earlier, the Malayan engagement illustrated the effectiveness of aerial attacks against even the heaviest of naval assets if they were without air cover. This added to the importance for the Allies of the three USN aircraft carriers in the Pacific: USS Enterprise, Lexington, and Saratoga. The sinking of the two ships severely weakened the British Eastern Fleet in Singapore, and the Japanese fleet was only engaged by submarines until the Battle off Endau on January 27, 1942. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/winston-churchill-the-valiant-years-dvd-set-all-26-shows-7-d267.html

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Today, December 10, 2025

December 10, 1984: Human Rights: Human Rights Treaties: Torture: Anti-Torture Treaties: United Nations Convention Against Torture (UNCAT) (The Convention Against Torture And Other Cruel, Inhuman Or Degrading Treatment Or Punishment): -- The United Nations General Assembly adopts The Convention Against Torture, which ultinately became an international human rights treaty under the review of the United Nations that aims to prevent torture and other acts of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment around the world. The Convention requires member states to take effective measures to prevent torture in any territory under their jurisdiction, and forbids member states to transport people to any country where there is reason to believe they will be tortured. The text of the convention was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1984 and, following ratification by the 20th state party, it came into force on June 26 1987. June 26 is now recognized as the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, in honor of the convention. Since the convention's entry was enforced, the absolute prohibition against torture and other acts of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment has become accepted as a principle of customary international law. As of April 2022, the convention has 173 state parties. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/survive-torture-3-state-torture-victims-testimonies-mp4-download-d34.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Music Documentaries III Video Pioneers Tom Waits Turtles DVD, MP4, USB
Today, December 10, 2025
( #JCKaelin here: In the 1990s I got to know Michael Nesmith under his alias Ed Bell, which he used when he did business on the phone while acting in his capacity as head of Pacific Arts, a media distribution and production company he founded in 1974 which went on to do everything from MTV videos to distributing THE CIVIL WAR by Ken Burns, someone I was also eventually to do business with. I also got to know Mike as his real self when I would attend his many Video Ranch get-togethers on Facebook Live in the years before his death -- and some six months before he died, he even gifted me with his editor's cut of the Monkee's documentary sourced directly from his master recording, using the same equipment he used to create it. #RIP Great Soul :) ) ========= December 10, 2021: #DOTD: #RIP: Michael Nesmith, American singer, songwriter, guitarist, actor, producer, novelist, businessman and philanthropist (b. December 30, 1942) #dies of heart failure at his home in Carmel Valley, California at the age of 78. He was born Robert Michael Nesmith in Houson, Texas. Nicknamed "Nez", he is is best known as a member of the pop rock band the Monkees and co-star of the TV series The Monkees (1966-1968). Nesmith's songwriting credits include "Different Drum" (sung by Linda Ronstadt with the Stone Poneys). After the break-up of the Monkees, Nesmith continued his successful songwriting and performing career, first with the seminal country rock group the First National Band, with whom he had a top-40 hit "Joanne", and then as a solo artist. He is also an executive producer of the cult film Repo Man (1984). In 1981, Nesmith won the first Grammy Award given for Video of the Year for his hour-long television show, Elephant Parts. https://store.earthstation1.com/music-documentaries-iii-dvd-video-pioneers-tom-waits-turtles.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: American Business Films Of The 20th Century MP4 Video Download DVD
Today, December 10, 2025
( #JCKaelin here: I regularly corresponded with Oscar by email during the final years of his life; the last email I got from him was 4 days before his death. He always answered all my emails within a couple days of my sending them. He's the reason I came to love folk music, due to his Folk Song Festival show, which I listened virtually to every Saturday night. It took some time to get used to not hearing his show; I don't know if I ever got over it. God Bless You & Keep You, Oscar Brand! :D ) ========= December 10, 1945: World Premieres: -- At 10 PM on a Saturday night, Oscar Brand's Folksong Festival radio show premieres on WNYC-AM, beginning a 70 year run and ultimately setting the Guinness Book of World Records record for the longest-running radio show with a single host. The guest roster of Oscar Brand's Folksong Festiva included virtually every famous folk, jazz and blues performer of the post-war period, including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Huddie Ledbetter, Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Pete Seeger, the Weavers, Burl Ives, Josh White, Harry Belafonte, Odetta, Harry Chapin, and B.B. King. The show also long served as a platform for serious discussions of racial and economic equality, among other issues, and Brand was an early, public and very vocal advocate for integration. Oscar Brand, Canadian-born American folk singer, songwriter, guitarist and author (1920-2016) composed at least 300 songs and released nearly 100 albums, among them Canadian and American patriotic songs. Brand's music ran the gamut from novelty songs to serious social commentary and spanned a number of genres. Brand was born to a Jewish family in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. His father was a Romanian-born flooring contractor, Isidore Brand. His mother was named Beatrice. In 1927, the family moved to Minneapolis, then to Chicago and ultimately to New York City. As a young man, Oscar lived in Borough Park, Brooklyn and graduated from Erasmus Hall High School and later from Brooklyn College with a BS in psychology. In his long career he played alongside such legends of folk music as Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Josh White, Jean Ritchie, the Weavers and Pete Seeger. He wrote various books on the folk song and folk song collections, including The Ballad Mongers: Rise of the American Folk Song, Songs Of '76: A Folksinger's History Of The Revolution and Bawdy Songs & Backroom Ballads, the latter comprising four volumes. Brand was known for composing catchy and themed folk songs, including the eponymous theme to his initially CTV and then CBC television show Let's Sing Out and the Canadian patriotic song "Something to Sing About" (actual title: "This Land of Ours"), which is one of Canada's national songs. He was also a frequent performer at the Mariposa Folk Festival during this period, including performances in 1962, 1968, 1969, and 1987, as well as the 50th anniversary in 2010. He collaborated on a number of musicals, most notably The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N (a musical version of Leo Rosten's stories about the fictional Jewish character Hyman Kaplan), How to Steal an Election, and A Joyful Noise. He hosted the radio show Oscar Brand's Folksong Festival on Saturdays at 10:00 p.m. on WNYC-AM 820 in New York City, which ran into its 70th year. The show ran more or less continuously since its debut on December 10, 1945, making it the longest-running radio show with the same host, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. Over its run it introduced such talents to the world as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, Huddie Ledbetter, Joni Mitchell, Peter, Paul & Mary, Judy Collins, the Kingston Trio, Pete Seeger and the Weavers. In order to make sure that his radio program could not be censored he refused to be paid by WNYC for the next 70 years. He wrote the lyrics to the song "A Guy is a Guy" (1952), which became a hit for Doris Day. He also wrote the English lyrics to the song "Shlub-a-Dubba-Dub" (1961) which became a minor hit for Mitch Miller. He contributed stories and songs for the "Young People's Records" label, including "Noah's Ark". He was a friend of the folksinger Jean Ritchie for many years. They recorded several duets together, including the British song "Keys to Canterbury". Although Brand was anti-Stalinist and was never a member of any Communist party, the House Committee on Un-American Activities referred to his show as a "pipeline of communism", because of his belief in the rights under the First Amendment of blacklisted artists to have a platform to reach the public. Accordingly, in June 1950, Brand was named in the premier issue of Red Channels as a Communist sympathizer, along with Paul Robeson, Josh White and Pete Seeger. While Brand was not as well-known or radical an activist as some of his contemporaries, he was a long-standing supporter of civil rights. He told stories of buying food for Leadbelly when the two traveled together in segregated areas, and participated in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches. Brand was one of the original organizers of the Newport Folk Festival which began in 1959. In the early 1960s, Brand brought his substantial connections in the worldwide folk music community home to his native Canada with his CTV and then CBC television program Let's Sing Out. The program was staged at and broadcast from university campuses across Canada and both revived the careers of long-forgotten pioneers of the folk music movement such as Malvina Reynolds, the Womenfolk, The Weavers and others and introduced then-unknown Canadian singers such as Joni Mitchell and Gordon Lightfoot. His score for the 1968 Off-Broadway show, How to Steal An Election sent up the current belief that charisma would help a candidate win. Songs included "Charisma" (sung by Calvin Coolidge) and "Down Among the Grassroots". The album cover was decorated with election buttons including the 1968 Nixon campaign. Brand also served during the 1960s as a board member of the Children's Television Workshop and participated in the development of Sesame Street. Because of some mild disagreements that had occurred between Brand and the board members regarding the appropriate setting for the show, it has been reputed that as a playful joke, the character of Oscar the Grouch was named after him, although there are dueling tales as to the origin of the character. In May 1976, Brand appeared in Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum at the memorial celebration for Phil Ochs, performing Ochs' "Love Me I'm A Liberal" with updated lyrics. Brand was given the Peabody Award for broadcast excellence in 1982 for his broadcast The Sunday Show on National Public Radio, and was awarded the Personal Peabody Award in 1995 (shared with Oprah Winfrey). Brand authored a number of short stories, including 1) "The Miser's Gold", about two young brothers who dare each other to spend the night in an allegedly haunted house - only to discover that "allegedly" is inapplicable. The boys encounter the ghost of a wealthy but lonely man; greatly amused by their reasons for being there, he names them as heirs to his considerable fortune; and 2) "The Hitchhiker", about a young man who, on his way home from a party, picks up a beautiful young woman who turns out to be much more than she seems. Dramatic readings of these stories were issued as cut-out cardboard records on the back of Honeycomb cereal boxes. On January 18, 2010, WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour celebrated Brand's upcoming 90th birthday and the 65th anniversary of his radio career before an audience from Lexington, Kentucky, where host Michael Johnathan and guest Josh White, Jr. performed with Brand and talked with him about his life. On February 7, 2010, CBC Radio's Sunday Edition celebrated Brand's life on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Brand died of pneumonia on September 30, 2016, at the age of 96. On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed Brand among hundreds of artists whose material was reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire. https://store.earthstation1.com/american-business-films-1910s1960s-3-dual-laye191019603.html

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Today, December 10, 2025
December 10: National Lager Day: -- An annual raising of a glass to the third most popular beverage after water and tea! While lager is typically characterized as a light, summer beer, we believe that every season deserves to be celebrated with a few of your favorite things. Lagers are distinguished from other beers by using a cold-conditioning process. The types of yeast used are referred to as "bottom-fermenting" yeast or yeast that can develop at colder temperatures. Before the advent of refrigeration, brewers perfected this process in cellars dug into the ground and filled with ice. Those who taste the delicious results described the lager as "crisp" and "refreshing." It is no wonder that this method caught on and produced a wide variety of brews synonymous with regional and national brands. With so many choices from pale, amber or dark, not to mention the many craft varieties there is are endless possibilities for your enjoyment. So, grab some friends and celebrate this midwinter season with the taste of Summer. National Lager Day offers a variety of ways to celebrate. You can start by ordering a flight to discover delicious new lagers. While you do that, invite a few friends to join you. At home, you can explore homebrew lagers; Learn about the brewing process firsthand by taking a tour of a local brewery. The brewmasters invest a lot of time in getting their lagers just right and take a lot of pride in their craft; Do some reading. We suggest the Little Book of Lager: A guide to the world's most popular style of beer by Melissa Cole or A Brief History of Lager: 500 Years of the World's Favourite Beer by Mark Dredge; Bake some homemade beer bread! While enjoying your favorite lager, order a pair of beer socks for you and your friends. Be sure to use #NationalLagerDay to post a photo of you wearing them on social media! https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-classics-vol-2-dv2.html

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Today, December 10, 2025
December 10: Dewey Decimal System Day: -- An annual celebration of the system of classification used in most of the world's libraries and the man who invented it! On December 10, 1851, Melvil Dewey (1851-1931) was born. The librarian invented the Dewey Decimal system of library classification. As the most widely used library classification system, the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) or Dewey Decimal System has been in use since 1876, the year when American Librarian Melvil Dewey developed and established it. Divided into ten main categories, the numerical system arranges mostly non-fiction publications. Since its inception, modern libraries maintain the system using modern technologies. A schedule of expansions and revisions helps keep the system current and progressive, too. The DDC is the most widely used classification system in the world. Libraries in 135 countries around the world have translated the DDC into 30 different languages. It is currently published by the Online Computer Library Center, Inc., and its editorial offices are located within the Decimal Classification Division of the Library of Congress. Melvil Dewey's interest in simplification led him to create a system that revolutionized library science. Born Melville Louis Kosuth Dewey in update New York, he was only 21 when he invented the Dewey Decimal Classification system. He also established library standards and advanced library education. Dewey went on to help develop the American Library Association and founded and edited the Library Journal. As an entrepreneur, he sold library supplies. Dewey paved the way for new librarians by establishing the first library school at Columbia College in New York City and later became the director of the New York State Library in Albany. To observe Dewey Decimal System Day: Visit a library and explore using the Dewey Decimal System! Read about library organization or take a tour of your local library to learn more about the technology it uses. Learn about library sciences. Read a book about Melvil Dewey such as The Efficient, Inventive (Often Annoying) Melvil Dewey by Alexis O'Neill and illustrated by Edwin Fotheringham. Discover different professions in a library degree program. The Dewey Decimal System is one tool librarians use. There are so many more - and as you explore, use #DeweyDecimalSystemDay to post on social media! https://store.earthstation1.com/new-york-city-history-videos-3-dvd-se3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The History Of Jazz A Video Retrospective DVD, MP4 Download, USB Drive
Today, December 10, 2025
Dec. 10, 1970: Rahsaan Day (Columbus, Ohio): -- Columbus Mayor Jack Sensenbrenner declares Saturday, Dec. 10, 1970, "Rahsaan Day" is response to The Columbus Dispatch obituary published on Thursday, Dec. 8, 1977 regarding the December 5, 1977 death of Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Known earlier in his career simply as Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk was an African American jazz multi-instrumentalist who played tenor saxophone, flute, and many other instruments, and was renowned for his onstage vitality, during which virtuoso improvisation was accompanied by comic banter, political ranting, and the ability to play several instruments simultaneously, one of whoses best-known recorded performances is the lead flute and solo on Jones' "Soul Bossa Nova", a 1964 hit song repopularized in the Austin Powers films, and whose "Serenade To A Cuckoo" inspired leader and flautist of Jethro Tull Ian Anderson to make flute playing the signature element of the band and thereby found coincidentally the musical genre "Flute Rock". Rahsaan Roland Kirk was born Ronald Theodore Kirk on August 7, 1935 in Columbus, Ohio, where he lived in a neighborhood known as Flytown. He became blind at two years old, which he said was a result of improper medical treatment. As a teenager, Kirk studied at the Ohio State School for the Blind. By 15, he was on the road playing rhythm and blues on weekends with Boyd Moore's band. According to saxophonist Hank Crawford, "He would be like this 14-year-old blind kid playing two horns at once. They would bring him out and he would tear the joint up." Crawford heard him during this period and said he was unbelievable. He remarked, "Now they had him doing all kinds of goofy stuff but he was playing the two horns and he was playing the shit out of them. He was an original from the beginning." Kirk felt compelled by a dream to transpose two letters in his first name to make '"Roland". In 1970, Kirk added "Rahsaan" to his name after hearing it in a dream. Kirk was politically outspoken. During his concerts, between songs he often talked about topical issues, including African-American history and the Civil Rights Movement. His monologues were often laced with satire and absurdist humor. According to comedian Jay Leno, when Leno toured with Kirk as Kirk's opening act, Kirk would introduce him by saying: "I want to introduce a young brother who knows the black experience and knows all about the white devils.... Please welcome Jay Leno!" Kirk's hometown of Columbus was not appreciative of his work for most of his career. He was thrown out of a local nightclub because his music was too difficult to understand, and he left for Los Angeles and further touring. In the 21st century, jazz fans in Columbus have been embracing his legacy. Kirk's musical career spans from 1955 until his death in 1977. He preferred to lead his own bands and rarely performed as a sideman, although he did record with arranger Quincy Jones, drummer Roy Haynes and worked with bassist Charles Mingus. Kirk's multi-instrumentality was credited as having a substantial musical conception. This inclusivity included blues music, a love of stride piano and early jazz, and an appreciation for pop tunes. But his vision was much wider than that of most of his contemporaries. According to producer Joel Dorn, he was also hugely knowledgeable about classical music. Pieces by Saint-Saens, Hindemith, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak and Villa-Lobos would all feature on his albums over the years, alongside standards, pop songs and original compositions. Rahsaan's influences went beyond jazz and consequentially, he preferred the term "Black Classical Music". His playing was generally rooted in soul jazz or hard bop, but Kirk's knowledge of jazz history allowed him to draw from many elements of the music's past, from ragtime to swing and free jazz. Kirk also absorbed classical influences, and his artistry reflected elements of pop music by composers such as Smokey Robinson and Burt Bacharach, as well as Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and other jazz musicians. Kirk played and collected many musical instruments, mainly multiple saxophones, clarinets and flutes. His primary saxophones were a standard tenor saxophone, stritch (a straight alto sax lacking the instrument's conventional upturned bell), and a manzello (a modified saxello soprano sax, with a larger, upturned bell). A number of his instruments were exotic or homemade. Kirk modified instruments himself to accommodate his simultaneous playing technique. Critic Gary Giddins wrote that Kirk's tenor playing alone was enough to bring him "renown". Usually, he appeared on stage with all three horns hanging around his neck, and at times he would play a number of these horns at once, harmonizing with himself, or sustain a note for lengthy durations by using circular breathing. He used the multiple horns to play true chords, essentially functioning as a one-man saxophone section. Kirk insisted that he was only trying to emulate the sounds he heard in his head. Even while playing two or three saxophones at once, the music was intricate, powerful jazz with a strong feel for the blues. The live album Bright Moments (1973) is an example of one of his shows. Kirk was also an influential flute player, including recorders. According to Giddins, Kirk was the first major jazz innovator on flute after Eric Dolphy (who died in 1964). Kirk employed several techniques, including singing or humming into the flute at the same time as playing. Another was to play the standard transverse flute at the same time as a nose flute. He played a variety of other instruments, including whistles; often kept a gong within reach; the clarinet, harmonica, English horn, and was a competent trumpeter. He utilized unique approaches, such as playing a trumpet with a saxophone mouthpiece. He also made use of non-musical devices, such as alarm clocks, sirens, or a section of common garden hose (dubbed "the black mystery pipes"). From the early 1970s, his studio recordings used tape-manipulated musique concrete and primitive electronic sounds before such things became commonplace. The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color was a unique album in the annals of recorded jazz and popular music. It was a two-LP set, with Side 4 apparently "blank", the label not indicating any content. However, once word of "the secret message" got around among Rahsaan's fans, one would find that about 12 minutes into Side 4 appeared the first of two telephone answering machine messages recorded by Kirk, the second following soon thereafter (but separated by more blank grooves). The surprise impact of these segments appearing on "blank" Side 4 was lost on the initial CD reissue of this album (though restored as track 20 on the CD re-release). He gleaned information on what was happening in the world via radio and TV. His later recordings often incorporated his spoken commentaries on current events, including Richard Nixon's involvement in the Watergate scandal. The 3-Sided Dream album was a "concept album" which incorporated "found" or environmental sounds and tape loops, tapes being played backwards, etc. Snippets of Billie Holiday singing are also heard briefly. The album even confronts the rise of influence of computers in society, as Rahsaan threatens to pull the plug on the machine trying to tell him what to do. In the album Other Folks' Music the spoken words of Paul Robeson, another outspoken black artist, can be briefly heard. His legacy and influence are immense; Ian Anderson, leader and flautist of Jethro Tull recorded a version of Kirk's "Serenade to a Cuckoo" on their first album This Was (1968). Roland Kirk was the very reason Anderson thought he could bring a flute into rock music. Anderson learned Kirk's vocalizing style on the flute and Anderson's flute playing became the signature element of Jethro Tull's sound. Kirk and Anderson took the flute's refined upper crust classical nature and commonized it. Anderson got to know Kirk at the 1969 Newport Jazz Festival where they both performed the same night. Anderson said of Kirk "There's something about these colourful shamans. They can tease us, but we go along with it, because we know they're touched by genius, but at the same time there's a little bit of the snake oil for sale.". Jeff Coffin, the saxophonist in Bela Fleck and the Flecktones was heavily influenced by Kirk's music and says he learned through Kirk that it's OK to experiment with an instrument. He used Kirk's multi-horn inventions with the Flecktones and on his solo album Mutopia. Guitarist Jimi Hendrix "idolized" Kirk, and even hoped to collaborate with him one day. Frank Zappa had been influenced by Kirk's music to a considerable extent early in his career. In the liner notes to his 1966 debut album with The Mothers of Invention, Freak Out!, Zappa cites Kirk as one of many in a lengthy list of personal musical influences. Kirk and Zappa performed live together at least once, at the 1969 Boston Globe Jazz Festival. Derek Trucks, a huge Kirk fan, recorded Kirk's composition "Volunteered Slavery" with his namesake group for the 2004 album Live at Georgia Theatre, the 2006 studio album Songlines, and the DVD Songlines Live. He said that hearing Kirk's music "felt much the same way those Hendrix records felt, that he was blowing the rules wide open..." David Jackson, of Van der Graaf Generator, was also highly influenced by the style and technique of Kirk, and he plays multiple saxophones simultaneously since at least 1969. Guitarist Michael Angelo Batio said in a 2008 interview with Ultimate Guitar Archive that Kirk's playing of two saxophones at once inspired him to create his "double guitar". T.J. Kirk was a band named after the three artists it tributed: Thelonious Monk, James Brown, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Formed by eight-string guitarist Charlie Hunter as a side group to his own self-titled band, the band's other members include Scott Amendola, Will Bernard, and John Schott. Paul Weller cited the Kirk album I Talk with the Spirits (1964) as one of his "Most Influential Albums" in an interview with The Times in 2009. Bjork named The Inflated Tear as one of her favorite jazz pieces, calling it "primitive and instinctive", "open to nature", and "punk". Davey Payne's twin saxophone solo on "Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick" (Ian Dury & the Blockheads, 1978) was inspired by Kirk. Terry Edwards' twin saxophone solo on "The Ministry of Defence" by PJ Harvey (2016) was inspired by Kirk. Eric Burdon and War's 1970 debut album Eric Burdon Declares War features the track "The Vision of Rassan", which is broken up into two pieces "Dedication" and "Roll on Kirk". The English post-punk group Rip Rig + Panic were named after the album of the same name by Roland Kirk. Clutch pay tribute to Roland Kirk in the song "Three Golden Horns" off their 2022 album Sunrise on Slaughter Beach. Jazz producer berlioz pays homage to Roland Kirk in the track "ode to rahsaan" from berlioz's 2024 album open this wall. In 1975, Kirk had a major stroke which led to partial paralysis of one side of his body. He continued to perform and record, modifying his instruments to enable him to play with one arm. At a live performance at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London he even managed to play two instruments, and carried on to tour internationally and to appear on television. Rashaan Roland Kirk died of a secondary stroke aged 42, the morning after performing in the Frangipani Room of the Indiana University Student Union in Bloomington, Indiana. He is buried at Evergreen Burial Park in Columbus. 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: The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt w/ George C Scott DVD, Download, USB
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1906: The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Peace Prize: The 1906 Nobel Peace Prize: -- U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his instrumental role in the negotiations that resulted in The Treaty of Portsmouth that formally ended the 1904-05 Russo-Japanese War, becoming thereby the first American to win a Nobel Prize. The negotiations were held at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, United States from August 6 to August 30, 1905, and the treaty was on September 5, 1905. The Russo-Japanese War (Russian: Russko-Yaponskaya Voyna, "Russo-Japanese War"; Japanese: Nichiro Senso, "Japanese-Russian War") was fought during 1904 and 1905 between the Russian Empire and the Empire Of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea. The major theatres of operations were the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden in Southern Manchuria and the seas around Korea, Japan and the Yellow Sea. Russia sought a warm-water port on the Pacific Ocean for its navy and for maritime trade. Vladivostok was operational only during the summer, whereas Port Arthur, a naval base in Liaodong Province leased to Russia by the Qing dynasty of China, was operational all year. Since the end of the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895, Japan feared Russian encroachment on its plans to create a sphere of influence in Korea and Manchuria. Russia had demonstrated an expansionist policy in the Siberian Far East from the reign of Ivan The Terrible in the 16th century. Seeing Russia as a rival, Japan offered to recognize Russian dominance in Manchuria in exchange for recognition of Korea as being within the Japanese sphere of influence. Russia refused and demanded Korea north of the 39th parallel to be a neutral buffer zone between Russia and Japan. The Japanese government perceived a Russian threat to their plans for expansion into Asia and chose to go to war. After negotiations broke down in 1904, the Japanese Navy opened hostilities by attacking the Russian Eastern Fleet at Port Arthur, China, in a surprise attack. Russia suffered a number of defeats, but Tsar Nicholas II was convinced that Russia would win and chose to remain engaged in the war; at first, to await the outcomes of certain naval battles, and later to preserve the dignity of Russia by averting a "humiliating peace". Russia ignored Japan's willingness early on to agree to an armistice and rejected the idea of bringing the dispute to the Arbitration Court at The Hague. The war concluded with the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by US President Theodore Roosevelt. The complete victory of the Japanese military surprised world observers. The consequences transformed the balance of power in East Asia, resulting in Japan's emergence as a great power. In contrast, the losses to manpower and prestige for the Russian empire contributed to growing unrest which culminated in the 1905 Russian Revolution. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-indomitable-teddy-roosevelt-george-c-scott-john-philip-sousa-dvd.html

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Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1938: The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize In Literature: The 1938 Nobel Prize In Literature: -- Pearl S. Buck receives The Nobel Prize In Literature for The Good Earth, a historical fiction novel published in 1931 that dramatizes family life in an early 20th-century Chinese village in Anhwei. It is the first book in her House of Earth trilogy, continued in Sons (1932) and A House Divided (1935). It was the best-selling novel in the United States in both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932, and was influential in Buck's winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. Buck, who grew up in China as the daughter of American missionaries, wrote the book while living in China and drew on her first-hand observation of Chinese village life. The realistic and sympathetic depiction of the farmer Wang Lung and his wife O-Lan helped prepare Americans of the 1930s to consider Chinese as allies in the coming war with Japan. The novel was included in Life magazine's list of the 100 outstanding books of 1924-1944. In 2004, the book returned to the bestseller list when chosen by the television host Oprah Winfrey for Oprah's Book Club. A Broadway stage adaptation was produced by the Theatre Guild in 1932, written by the father and son playwriting team of Owen and Donald Davis, but critics gave a poor reception, and it ran only 56 performances. However, the 1937 film, The Good Earth, which was based on the stage version, was more successful. https://store.earthstation1.com/east-wind-west-wind-pearl-buck-dvd-mp4-video-download-usb-flash-driv4.html

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Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1953: The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize In Literature: The 1953 Nobel Prize In Literature: -- British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in Literature. Churchill was a prolific writer. His output included a novel (Savrola), two biographies, memoirs, histories, and press articles. Two of his most famous works were his six-volume memoir, The Second World War, and the four-volume A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. In recognition of his "mastery of historical and biographical description" and oratorial output, Churchill received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. He is the sixth British writer to receive the prize, coming after the philosopher Bertrand Russell in 1950. Churchill was nominated for the prize on 23 occasions since 1946, the first time made by Axel Romdahl, a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities. He received the highest number of nominations - six nominations from academics and writers - for the year 1950. In 1953, he received a single nomination from Birger Nerman, member of the same academy, which eventually led to him being awarded. One of the most well-known leaders of the 20th century, Winston Churchill, also left behind a sizable corpus of writing. His writings include a multivolume study about the First and Second World Wars, a thorough history of his ancestor the first Duke of Marlborough, and an autobiography in which he recounts his exciting years as an officer and war journalist. The books' entertaining writing style is combined with their neutrality. Churchill's beautiful and historic speeches delivered during World War II are among his most significant literary compositions. Among his famous non-fiction works include Arms and the Covenant (1938), The World Crisis (1923-1931), The Second World War (1948-1953), and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (1956-1958). https://store.earthstation1.com/winston-churchill-dvd-classic-tv-documentaries.html

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Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1964: The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Peace Prize: The 1964 Nobel Peace Prize: -- Martin Luther King Jr., American Baptist minister and activist, the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968) becomes the Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1964 as he attends the award ceremony in the auditorium of the University of Oslo, Norway. On October 14, 1964, it was announced by the Nobel committee that King won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In his acceptance speech, King's admiration of Gandhi's philosophy nonviolence went so far as to be held up as an example to King, hailing the "successful precedent" of using nonviolence "in a magnificent way by Mohandas K. Gandhi to challenge the might of the British Empire_... He struggled only with the weapons of truth, soul force, non-injury and courage." He closed his acceptance speech with these words: "I think Alfred Nobel would know what I mean when I say that I accept this award in the spirit of a curator of some precious heirloom which he holds in trust for its true owners - all those to whom beauty is truth and truth beauty - and in whose eyes the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold." https://store.earthstation1.com/king-a-filmed-record--montgomery-to-memphis-dvd.html

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Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1950: The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Peace Prize: The 1950 Nobel Peace Prize: -- Dr. Ralph Bunche becomes the first African American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for his efforts as assistant to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, and thereafter as the principal secretary of the UN Palestine Commission, in mediation in the Arab-Israeli Conflict between Israel and nearby Arab states the previous year. Beginning in 1947, Bunche was involved with trying to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict in Palestine. He served as assistant to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, and thereafter as the principal secretary of the UN Palestine Commission. In 1948, he traveled to the Middle East as the chief aide to Sweden's Count Folke Bernadotte, who had been appointed by the UN to mediate the conflict. These men chose the island of Rhodes for their base and working headquarters. In September 1948, Bernadotte was assassinated in Jerusalem by members of the underground Jewish Lehi group, which was led by Yitzhak Shamir. Bunche issued passes for United Nations personnel monitoring the 1949 Armistice Agreements. Following the assassination, Bunche became the UN's chief mediator; he conducted all future negotiations on Rhodes. The representative for Israel was Moshe Dayan; he reported in memoirs that much of his delicate negotiation with Bunche was conducted over a billiard table while the two were shooting pool. Optimistically, Bunche commissioned a local potter to create unique memorial plates bearing the name of each negotiator. When the agreement was signed, Bunche awarded these gifts. After unwrapping his, Dayan asked Bunche what might have happened if no agreement had been reached. "I'd have broken the plates over your damn heads," Bunche answered. For achieving the 1949 Armistice Agreements, Bunche received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950. He continued to work for the United Nations, mediating in other strife-torn regions, including the Congo, Yemen, Kashmir, and Cyprus. Bunche was appointed Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1968. https://store.earthstation1.com/perspective-on-greatness-the-twicepromised-land-dvd-israel.html

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Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1978: The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Peace Prize: The 1978 Nobel Peace Prize: -- Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of their signing The Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C., United States witnessed by Jimmy Carter, President of the United States, on March 26, 1979, following the 1978 Camp David Accords. The treaty was signed 16 months after Egyptian president Anwar Sadat's visit to Israel in 1977, after intense negotiations. The agreement notably made Egypt the first Arab state to officially recognize Israel. The main features of the treaty were mutual recognition, cessation of the state of war that had existed since the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, normalization of relations and the withdrawal by Israel of its armed forces and civilians from the Sinai Peninsula, which Israel had captured during the Six-Day War in 1967. Egypt agreed to leave the Sinai Peninsula demilitarized. The agreement provided for free passage of Israeli ships through the Suez Canal, and recognition of the Strait of Tiran and the Gulf of Aqaba as international waterways, which had been blockaded by Egypt in 1967. The agreement also called for an end to Israeli military rule over the Israeli-occupied territories and the establishment of full autonomy for the Palestinian inhabitants of the territories, terms that were not implemented but which became the basis for the Oslo Accords. This treaty was received with enormous controversy across the Arab world, where it was condemned and considered a stab in the back. The sense of outrage was particularly strong amongst Palestinians, with the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, stating: "Let them sign what they like. False peace will not last". In order to regain legitimacy in the eyes of the other Muslim-majority countries after the peace treaty with Israel, Egypt appealed to Islamic justifications based on the sacred scriptures of Islam to facilitate its efforts to describe its innovative peace policy, and simultaneously to refute the anti-peace campaign led by Islamist organizations in the Arab world and the Middle East. However, as a result of the treaty, Egypt was suspended from the Arab League in 1979-1989, and Sadat was assassinated on 6 October 1981 by members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Syrian President Hafez al-Assad severed all relations with Egypt after the signing of the peace deal, and diplomatic relations were not re-established until 2005 under the rule of Bashar al-Assad. https://store.earthstation1.com/anwar-sadat-in-life-and-death-documentary-set-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Apartheid Documentaries Collection DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1984: The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Peace Prize: The 1984 Nobel Peace Prize: -- Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican archbishop, civil rights activist, theologian, Freemason (October 7, 1931 - December 26, 2021) becomes the Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1984 as he attends the award ceremony in the auditorium of the University of Oslo, Norway - a ceremony hampered by a bomb scare - before returning home via Sweden, Denmark, Canada, Tanzania, and Zambia. He had previously been nominated for the award in 1981, 1982, and 1983; the Nobel Prize selection committee had wanted to recognise a South African, and thought Tutu would be a less controversial choice than Mandela or Mangosuthu Buthelezi. He shared the 192K USD prize money with his family, SACC staff, and a scholarship fund for South Africans in exile. He was the second South African to receive the award, after Albert Luthuli, South African anti-apartheid activist, traditional leader, and politician who served as the President-General of the African National Congress from 1952 until his death in 1967, was given the Nobel award in 1960. South Africa's government and mainstream media either downplayed or criticised the award, while the Organisation of African Unity hailed it as evidence of apartheid's impending demise. https://store.earthstation1.com/apartheid-documentaries-dvd-racial-segregation-in-south-africa.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Alexander Gardner: Civil War & Lincoln Photographer MP4 Download DVD
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1882: #DOTD: #RIP: Alexander Gardner, Scottish photographer who immigrated to the United States in 1856, where he began to work full-time in that profession, best known for his photographs of the American Civil War, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, and of the conspirators and the execution of the participants in the Lincoln assassination plot (b. October 17, 1821) #dies at his home in Washington, D.C., aged 61. He was survived by his wife and two children. He was buried in Glenwood Cemetery, a historic cemetery located at 2219 Lincoln Road NE in Washington, D.C. In 1893, photographer J. Watson Porter, who had worked for Gardner years before, tracked down hundreds of glass negatives made by Gardner, that had been left in an old house in Washington where Gardner had lived. The result was a story in the Washington Post and renewed interest in Gardner's photographs. Alexander Gardner was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. Since he worked in the early part of his career for Matthew Brady, much of Gardner's early work was mistakenly attributed to Brady, and along with it, the credit for bring war photography into its own. https://store.earthstation1.com/alexander-gardner-civil-war-and-lincoln-photographer-mp4-download-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Search For The Disappeared Of Argentina DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1983: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War (1979-1985): The Cold War In South America: Argentina: The History Of Argentina: The Cold War In Argentina: Presidential Elections In Argentina: The 1983 Argentine General Election: The Presidency Of Raul Alfonsin: -- Democracy is restored in Argentina with the inauguration of President Raul Alfonsin. Chief among Alfonsin's inherited problems was an economic depression stemming from the 1981-82 financial collapse and its resulting 43B USD foreign debt, with interest payments that swallowed all of Argentina's 3B USD trade surplus. The economy recovered modestly in 1983 as a result of Bignone's lifting of wage freezes and crushing interest rates imposed by the Central Bank's "Circular 1050;" but inflation raged at 400%, GDP per capita remained at its lowest level since 1968 and fixed investment was 40% lower than in 1980. Naming a generally center-left cabinet led by Foreign Minister Dante Caputo and Economy Minister Bernardo Grinspun (his campaign manager), Alfonsin began his administration with high approval ratings and with the fulfillment of campaign promises such as a nutritional assistance program for the 27% of Argentines under the poverty line at the time, as well as the recission of Bignone's April 1983 blanket amnesty for those guilty of human rights abuses and his September decree authorizing warrantless wiretapping. Defense Minister Raul Borras advised Alfonsin to remove Fabricaciones Militares, then Argentina's leading defense contractor, from the Armed Forces' control, ordering the retirement of 70 generals and admirals known for their opposition to the transfer of the lucrative contractor. Appointing renowned playwright Carlos Gorostiza as Secretary of Culture and exiled computer scientist Dr. Manuel Sadosky as Secretary of Science and Technology, hundreds of artists and scientists returned to Argentina during 1984. Gorostiza abolished the infamous National Film Rating Entity, helping lead to a doubling in film and theatre production. The harrowing La historia oficial (The Official Story) was released in April 1985 and became the first Argentine film to receive an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Alfonsin created the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP) to document human rights abuses. Led by novelist Ernesto Sabato, CONADEP documented 8,960 forced disappearances and presented the President with its findings on September 20. The report drew mixed reaction, however, as its stated total of victims fell short of Amnesty International's estimate of 16,000 and of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo's estimate of 30,000. Alfonsin had leading members of leftist groups prosecuted, leading to jail sentences for, among others, Montoneros leader Mario Firmenich. He sought to improve relations with Peronists by pardoning former President Isabel Peron in May 1984 for her prominent role in the early stages of the Dirty War against dissidents and for her alleged embezzlement of public funds, though his introduction of legislation providing for secret ballot labor union elections led to opposition by the CGT, Argentina's largest, and handed his administration its first defeat when the Senate struck it down by one vote. Relations with the United States suffered when Alfonsin terminated the previous regime's support for the Contras. Two meetings with U.S. President Ronald Reagan failed to bring economic concessions towards Argentina. Alfonsin initiated the first diplomatic contact with the United Kingdom since the Falklands War two years earlier, resulting in the lifting of British trade sanctions. Proposing a Treaty with Chile ending a border dispute over the Beagle Channel, he put the issue before voters in a referendum and won its approval with 82%. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-search-for-the-disappeared-of-argentina-dvd-mp4-us4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Dunkirk: The Battle For France Documentary DVD MP4 Download USB Drive
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1891: #BOTD: #HBD! Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, English field marshal and politician, a senior British Army officer who served with distinction in both the First World War and the Second World War and, afterwards, as Governor General of Canada, the 17th since Canadian Confederation (d. June 16, 1969) is #born Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander in London, England into an aristocratic family from County Tyrone of Anglo-Irish descent. Alexander oversaw the final stages of the Allied evacuation from Dunkirk and subsequently held high-ranking field commands in Burma, North Africa and Italy, including serving as Commander-In-Chief Middle East and commanding the 18th Army Group in Tunisia. He then commanded the 15th Army Group for the capture of Sicily and again in Italy before receiving his field marshal' baton and being made Supreme Allied Commander Mediterranean. Harold Alexander died of a perforated aorta in lough, Buckinghamshire, England, aged 77. His funeral was held on June 24, 1969 at St. George's Chapel, in Windsor Castle, and his remains are buried in the churchyard of Ridge, near Tyttenhanger, his family's Hertfordshire home. https://store.earthstation1.com/dunkirk-battle-for-france-dvd-war-files-series.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Seasons Change: The ACLU On The 1968 DNC DVD, Download, USB Drive
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 2005 #DOTD: #RIP: Eugene McCarthy, American soldier, code breaker, politician and poet from Minnesota (b. March 29, 1916) #dies of complications from Parkinson's disease at age 89 in a retirement home in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., where he had lived for the previous few years. Former President Bill Clinton gave his eulogy. Following his death, the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University renamed their Public Policy Center the Eugene J. McCarthy Center for Public Policy. He is buried at Saint Paul's Episcopal Churchyard in Woodville, Virginia. Eugene McCarthy was born Eugene Joseph McCarthy in Watkins, Minnesota. He served in the United States House Of Representatives from 1949 to 1959 and the United States Senate from 1959 to 1971. McCarthy sought the Democratic nomination in the 1968 presidential election, challenging incumbent Lyndon B. Johnson on an anti-Vietnam War platform. McCarthy sought the presidency five times, but never won. Born in Watkins, Minnesota, McCarthy became an economics professor after earning a graduate degree from the University of Minnesota. He served as a code breaker for the United States Department of War during World War II. McCarthy became a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (the state affiliate of the Democratic Party) and in 1948 was elected to the House of Representatives, where he served until being elected to the Senate in 1958. McCarthy was a prominent supporter of Adlai Stevenson II for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1960 and was himself a candidate for the Democratic vice-presidential nomination in 1964. He co-sponsored the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, though he later expressed regret about its impact and became a member of the Federation for American Immigration Reform. As the 1960s progressed, McCarthy emerged as a prominent opponent of Johnson's handling of the Vietnam War. After Robert F. Kennedy declined the request of a group of antiwar Democrats to challenge Johnson in the 1968 Democratic primaries, McCarthy entered the race on an antiwar platform. Though he was initially given little chance of winning, the Tet Offensive galvanized opposition to the war and McCarthy finished in a strong second place in the New Hampshire primary. After that, Kennedy entered the race and Johnson announced that he would not seek reelection. McCarthy and Kennedy each won several primaries before Kennedy was assassinated in June 1968. The 1968 Democratic National Convention nominated Vice President Hubert Humphrey, Johnson's preferred candidate. McCarthy did not seek reelection in the 1970 Senate election. He sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972 but fared poorly in the primaries. He ran in several more races after that, but was never elected to another office. He ran as independent in the 1976 presidential election and won 0.9% of the popular vote. He was a plaintiff in the landmark campaign finance case Buckley v. Valeo and supported Ronald Reagan in the 1980 presidential election. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-seasons-change-dvd-plus-chiefs-1968-police-convention-1968.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Missiles Of October (1974) Cuban Missile Crisis DVD, MP4, USB
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1990: #DOTD: #RIP: Armand Hammer, American physician, business manager, founder of Occidental Petroleum, a company he ran from 1957 until his death, known as "Lenin's chosen capitalist" by the press, he was also known for his art collection and his close ties to the Soviet Union (b. May 21, 1898) #dies of bone marrow cancer in December 1990, aged 92 in Los Angeles. He is buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery, across the street from the Occidental Petroleum headquarters on Wilshire Boulevard. He was born in New York City to Jewish parents who emigrated from what was then the Russian Empire. Hammer's business interests around the world and his "citizen diplomacy" helped him cultivate a wide network of friends and associates. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev had a meeting with Hammer, who was visiting the Soviet Union at the time, to convey a concilitory message to President Kennedy in an attempt to avoid a military conflict. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-missiles-of-october-1974-cuban-missile-crisis-docud1974.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The X Planes TV Documentary Series DVD, MP4, USB Drive
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1963: The History Of Rocketry: The History Of Spaceflight: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Space Age: The Space Race: Space Programs Of The United States: Human Spaceflight Programs: The Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar: -- The United States Air Force ends its X-20 Dyna-Soar manned space program that began on October 24, 1957. The Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar ("Dynamic Soarer") was a United States Air Force (USAF) program to develop a spaceplane that could be used for a variety of military missions, including aerial reconnaissance, bombing, space rescue, satellite maintenance, and as a space interceptor to sabotage enemy satellites. The program ran from October 24, 1957 to December 10, 1963, cost 660M USD (5.51B USD in 2020), and was cancelled just after spacecraft construction had begun. Other spacecraft under development at the time, such as Mercury or Vostok, were space capsules with ballistic re-entry profiles that ended in a landing under a parachute. Dyna-Soar was more like an aircraft. It could travel to distant targets at the speed of an intercontinental ballistic missile, was designed to glide to Earth like an aircraft under control of a pilot, and could land at an airfield. Dyna-Soar could also reach Earth orbit, like conventional, manned space capsules. These characteristics made Dyna-Soar a far more advanced concept than other human spaceflight missions of the period. Research into a spaceplane was realized much later in other reusable spacecraft such as the 1981-2011 Space Shuttle and the more recent Boeing X-40 and X-37B spacecraft. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-x-planes-tv-documentary-series-dvd-mp4-usb-driv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: CIA The Secret Files The Central Intelligence Agency TV Series MP4 DVD
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 2006: #DOTD: 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 (b. November 25, 1915) #dies 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. Augusto Pinochet was 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. https://store.earthstation1.com/cia-the-secret-files-the-central-intelligence-agency-tv-series-mp4-dv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Road To War: Years Between WWI & WWII TV Series DVD, Download, USB
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1882: #BOTD: Shigenori Togo, Japanese politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Empire Of Japan at both the start and the end of the Axis-Allied conflict during World War II (d. July 23, 1950) is #born Togo Shigenori in Hioki District, Kagoshima, in what is now part of the city of Hioki, Kagoshima. His family was a descendant of Koreans who settled in Kyushu after the Toyotomi Hideyoshi's campaign against Korea (1592-98). His father took up "Togo" as the last name in 1886. After World War II, Togo assumed the same Minister of Foreign Affairs position, renamed the Minister for Greater East Asia. Shigenori Togo was a graduate of the Literature Department of Tokyo Imperial University in 1904, and subsequently studied the German language at Meiji University. He entered the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1912, after applying for a post five times. Togo's first overseas posting was to the Japanese consulate at Mukden, Manchuria, in 1913. In 1916, he was assigned to the Japanese embassy in Bern, Switzerland. In 1919, Togo was sent on a diplomatic mission to Weimar Germany, as diplomatic relations between the two countries were reestablished following the Japanese ratification of the Treaty Of Versailles. He returned to Japan in 1921 and was assigned to the Bureau of North American affairs. In 1922, despite the strenuous objections of Togo's family, he married a German woman, the widow of noted architect George de Lalande who has designed numerous buildings in Japan and its empire, including the Japanese General Government Building in Seoul. The wedding was held in the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. In 1926, Togo was appointed as secretary to the Japanese embassy in United States, and moved to Washington DC. He returned to Japan in 1929, and after a brief stay in Manchuria, was sent back to Germany. He was the head of the Japanese delegation to the largely unsuccessful World Disarmament Conference held in Geneva in 1932. Togo returned to Japan in 1933 to assume the post of director of the Bureau of North American affairs, but was in a severe automobile accident which left him hospitalized for over a month. In 1937, Togo was appointed as Japanese ambassador to Germany, serving in Berlin for a year. After Togo was replaced as ambassador to Germany by Hiroshi Oshima, he was reassigned to Moscow as the ambassador to the Soviet Union 1938-1940. During this time, he negotiated a peace settlement following the Battles of Khalkhin Gol between Japan and the Soviet Union, and successfully concluded the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact in April 1941. He was then recalled to Japan by then Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka for reassignment. Togo was adamantly against war with the United States and the other western powers, which he felt was generally unwinnable, and together with Mamoru Shigemitsu, made unsuccessful last-ditch efforts to arrange for direct face-to-face negotiations between Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe and US President Franklin Roosevelt in an attempt to stave off the conflict. In October 1941, Togo became Foreign Minister in the Tojo administration. Once war was decided, it was Togo's signature on the declaration of war, as he disliked pressing the responsibility of the failure of diplomacy on others. With the start of World War II, Togo worked quickly to conclude an alliance between Japan and Thailand in late 1941. As part of a more reconciliatory policy towards the western powers, he announced on January 21, 1942 that the Japanese government shall uphold the Geneva Convention even though it did not sign it. On September 1, 1942, he resigned his post as Foreign Minister due to his opposition to establish a special ministry for occupied territories within the Japanese government (the new ministry, the Ministry of Greater East Asia was eventually established in November of that same year). Although appointed to the Upper House of the Diet of Japan, throughout most of the war, he lived in retirement. Upon the formation of the government of Admiral Kantaro Suzuki in April 1945, Togo was asked to return to his former position as Minister of Foreign Affairs. In that position, he was one of the chief proponents for acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration which, he felt, contained the best conditions for peace Japan could hope to be offered. Up until the last, Togo hoped for favorable terms from the Soviet Union. At Togo's suggestion, no official response was made to the Declaration at first, though a censored version was released to the Japanese public, while Togo waited to hear from Moscow. However, Allied leaders interpreted this silence as a rejection of the Declaration, and so bombing was allowed to continue. Togo was one of the Cabinet Ministers who advocated Japanese surrender in the summer of 1945. Several days after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese government agreed to unconditional surrender. Following the end of World War II, Togo retired to his summer home in Karuizawa, Nagano. However, he was soon arrested by the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers on war crime charges, along with all former members of the Imperial Japanese government, and was held at Sugamo Prison. During the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Haruhiko Nishi agreed to act as his defense attorney. On November 4, 1948, Togo was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment. Togo, who suffered from atherosclerosis, died of cholecystitis (inflamation of the gall bladder) in Sugamo Prison. Tokyo, Occupied Japan, aged 67. He is buried at The Former Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo Memorial in Hioki District, Kagoshima, Japan in what is now part of the city of Hioki, Kagoshima, where he was born.A volume of his memoirs was published posthumously under the title The Cause of Japan, which was edited by his former defense counsel Ben Bruce Blakeney. The Japanese diplomat and scholar on international relations, Kazuhiko Togo, is his grandson. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-road-to-war-dvd-set-all-8-tv-shows-4-dis84.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Chet Huntley Presents Best Of Washington Humor Comedy LP MP3, CD, USB
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1911: #BOTD: #HBD! Chet Huntley, American television newscaster, best known for co-anchoring NBC's evening news program, The Huntley-Brinkley Report, for 14 years, from 1956 through 1970 (d. March 20, 1974) is #born Chester Robert Huntley in Cardwell, Montana, the only son and oldest of four children born to Percy Adams Huntley and Blanche Wadine (nee Tatham) Huntley. The family was of Scottish descent. His father was a telegraph operator for the Northern Pacific Railway, and young Chet was born in the Cardwell depot living quarters. Owing to the railroad's seniority system, wherein employees with longer tenure could "bump" newer employees, the family moved often. They lived in Cardwell, Saco, Willow Creek, Logan, Big Timber, Norris, Whitehall, and Three Forks while he was a child. He graduated from Whitehall High School in Whitehall, and attended Montana State College in Bozeman, where he was a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. He attended Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle before graduating from the University of Washington in 1934, with a degree in speech and drama. Huntley began his radio newscast career in 1934 at Seattle's KIRO AM, later working on radio stations in Spokane (KHQ) and Portland. His time (1936-37) in Portland was with KGW-AM, owned by The Oregonian, a Portland daily newspaper. At KGW he was writer, newscaster, and announcer. In 1937 he went to work for KFI in Los Angeles, moving to CBS Radio from 1939 to 1951, then ABC Radio from 1951 to 1955. In 1955, he joined the NBC Radio network, viewed by network executives as "another Ed Murrow". In 1956, coverage of the national political party conventions was a major point of pride for the fledgling broadcast news organizations. NBC News executives were seeking to counter the growing popularity of CBS' Walter Cronkite, who had been a ratings success at the 1952 conventions. They decided to replace their current news anchor, John Cameron Swayze, but there was a disagreement on who the new anchorman should be. The two leading contenders were Huntley and David Brinkley. The eventual decision was to have both men share the assignment. Their on-air chemistry was apparent from the start, with Huntley's straightforward presentation countered by Brinkley's acerbic wit. This success soon led to the team replacing Swayze on the network's nightly news program. It was decided to have the two men co-anchor the show; Huntley from New York City, Brinkley from Washington, D.C. The Huntley-Brinkley Report began in October 1956 and was soon a ratings success. Huntley and Brinkley's catchphrase closing of "Good night, David"-"Good night, Chet... and good night for NBC News" was developed by the show's producer, Reuven Frank. Although both anchors initially disliked it, the sign-off became famous. Huntley and Brinkley gained great celebrity themselves, with surveys showing them better known than John Wayne, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart or the Beatles. The gregarious Huntley remained the same, a friend commenting in 1968 that "Chet is warm, he's friendly, he's unaffected, he's-well, he's just so damned nice." In April 1956, before that year's political conventions that brought him to prominence, Huntley began anchoring a new half-hour program entitled Outlook, produced by Reuven Frank. The program aired for seven years, later changing its name to Chet Huntley Reporting, and often covered racial segregation and civil rights. In January 1962, the program moved from the Sunday evening news time-slot to prime time. Huntley wrote a memoir of his Montana childhood, The Generous Years: Remembrances of a Frontier Boyhood, published by Random House in 1968. He also became involved in a New York advertising agency, Levine, Huntley, Schmidt, Plapler & Beaver, gaining a 10 percent share in the agency in exchange for having his name on the letterhead and attending some agency meetings. He maintained his own cattle farm in Stockton, New Jersey, which for a short time in 1964 included a beef line from the farm's cattle promoted under his name before the network intervened due to conflict of interest and promotional concerns. Huntley's last NBC News broadcast was aired on July 31, 1970. He returned to Montana, where he conceived and built Big Sky, a ski resort south of Bozeman, which opened in December 1973. Huntley's first marriage, to Ingrid Rolin, produced two daughters and ended in divorce in 1959. Later that year, Huntley, at age forty-eight, married the former Tippy Stringer (1930-2010). Huntley died of lung cancer on March 20, 1974, at his home in Big Sky at the age of 62, three days before the opening ceremonies for Big Sky. Huntley was honored with a cenotaph at Soldiers Chapel on the grounds of the Big Sky Resort. Boyne USA Resorts purchased the Big Sky Resort in 1976 and has owned and managed it since. Huntley was buried at Sunset Hills Cemetery in Bozeman, Montana, 50 miles east of his hometown of Cardwell, Montana. In 1956 Huntley received the Alfred I. duPont Award. In 1988, Huntley was posthumously inducted into the Television Hall of Fame. Only days before his retirement, Huntley gave an interview with Dick Cavett. On that broadcast, he described his political views as conservative on economic issues, but liberal on social issues. However, he insisted to Cavett and the other guests that he took pains to ensure that his personal views did not adversely affect his reporting during his years as a journalist. The Tom Lehrer song "So Long Mom (I'm Off to Drop the Bomb)" includes the verse: While we're attacking frontally | Watch Brinkally and Huntally | Describing contrapuntally | The cities we have lost | No need for you to miss a minute of the agonizing holocaust. https://store.earthstation1.com/chet-huntley-presents-best-of-washington-humor-comedy-lp-mp3-c3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Language Of War: Military Double-Talk DVD Download USB Flash Drive
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1925: #BOTD: #HBD! James Boren, American humorist and writer on the language of "bureaucratese", who poked fun at what he called "the vacuumental thinking and idiotoxicities of Washington", businessman, teacher, scholar, public servant, political operative, presidential candidate, and public speaker (d. April 24, 2010) is #born James Harlan Boren in Wheatland, Oklahoma to James B. and Una Lee Boren (nee Hamilton). He was a nephew of democratic US House Representative from Oklahoma Lyle Boren; a nephew of Mae Boren Axton, known in the music industry as the "Queen Mother of Nashville" who co-wrote the Elvis Presley hit single "Heartbreak Hotel" with Tommy Durden; and first cousin of David Boren, democratic governor of and senator from Oklahoma. He was married three times. James Boren joined the United States Navy in 1942 at the age of 17, serving on the destroyer escort the USS William C. Cole at the Battle Of Okinawa. He studied at University of Texas at Austin (BA, PhD), California State University, Long Beach (MA), and University of Southern California (MA). Boren initially worked in the independent oil business in Texas and Oklahoma. In 1957 Boren was the campaign manager for Ralph Yarborough's successful bid to represent Texas in the United States Senate, and was Yarborough's chief of staff 1957-61. In 1961 President John F. Kennedy appointed him Deputy Director of the U.S. Economic Mission to Peru. There he conceived the idea of the Partners of the Alliance (now known as Partners of the Americas), and he spent seven years helping to build schools, equip hospitals, assist with potable water systems, and other economic development projects. In 1970 he became President of Development Services International in Washington, D.C. Boren then turned to reforming bureaucracy through the use of humor and political satire. He formed a spoof organization called the International Association of Professional Bureaucrats. He was in great demand as a professional speaker, and he wrote seven books, the most famous of which was When in Doubt Mumble: A Bureaucrat's Handbook. The title drew on his most famous quotation: "When in charge, ponder... When in trouble, delegate... When in doubt, mumble." In 1991 he became a Scholar-in-Residence at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. In 1992, Boren was an official (if not entirely serious) candidate for President of the United States, for the Apathy Party of America. His slogan was "I have what it takes to take what you've got". In 1996 he was the Oklahoma Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. Senate but was unsuccessful. He died in Tahlequah, Oklahoma of undisclosed causes, aged 84. He is buried at Fort Gibson National Cemetery in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-language-of-war-dvd-military-doubletalk.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Mighty Mouse TV Cartoon Series DVD, Video Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1955: Aesthetics: Performing Arts: Premieres: Television Premieres: United States Television Premieres: -- Mighty Mouse Playhouse premieres on American television as a Saturday morning cartoon show on the CBS television network, which popularized the character far more than the original theatrical film run. The show lasted until 1967. Filmation revived the character in The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle, which ran from 1979 to 1980, and animation director Ralph Bakshi revived the concept again in Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, from 1987 to 1989. Mighty Mouse is an American animated anthropomorphic superhero mouse character created by the Terrytoons studio for 20th Century Fox. The character was originally called Super Mouse, and made his debut in the 1942 short The Mouse of Tomorrow. The name was changed to Mighty Mouse in his eighth film, 1944's The Wreck of the Hesperus, and the character went on to star in 80 theatrical shorts, concluding in 1961 with Cat Alarm. Mighty Mouse also appeared in comic books by several publishers, including his own series, Mighty Mouse and The Adventures of Mighty Mouse, which ran from 1946 to 1968. Mighty Mouse is known for his catchy theme song, "Mighty Mouse Theme (Here I Come to Save the Day)", written by composer Marshall Barer. https://store.earthstation1.com/mighty-mouse-cartoons-dvd-all-65-terrytoons-2-archive-grade-d652.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Amos 'N' Andy Radio Shows MP3 Set DVD, Download, USB Flash Drive
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1982: #DOTD: #RIP: Freeman Gosden, known by the nickname Gozzie Gosden, American radio comedian and pioneer in the development of the situation comedy form, best known as the voice of Amos and George 'Kingfish' Stevens on the Amos 'n' Andy radio series (b. May 5, 1899) #dies from congestive heart failure in Los Angeles, California at the age of 83. His remains were cremated; the final disposition of his ashes are unknown other than that they were given to his family or a friend. He was born Freeman Fisher Gosden in Richmond, Virginia, the son of Emma L. (Smith) and Walter W. Gosden Sr. While attending school in Richmond, Gozzie worked part-time in Tarrant's Drug Store at 1 West Broad Street. During World War I, he served in the United States Navy as a wireless operator, which prompted his great interest with the young medium of radio. During 1921, Gosden first teamed with Charles Correll to do radio work, presenting comedy acts and hosting variety programs. They had met in Durham, North Carolina, both working for the Joe Bren Producing Company. Their first regular series was begun during 1925 with their WEBH Chicago program Correll and Gosden, the Life of the Party. For this program, the two told jokes, sang, and played music (Correll played piano and Gosden ukulele or banjo). During 1926, Gosden and Correll had a success with their radio program Sam 'n' Henry broadcast by Chicago radio station WGN. Sam & Henry is considered by some historians to have been the first situation comedy. From 1928 to 1960, Gosden and Correll broadcast their program Amos 'n' Andy, which was one of the most famous and popular radio series of the 1930s. Gosden voiced the characters "Amos", "George 'Kingfish' Stevens", "Lightning", "Brother Crawford", and some dozen other characters. During 1961-1962, Gosden and Correll provided the voices for the animated television series Calvin and the Colonel broadcast by American Broadcasting Company-TV. During 1969, Gosden was honored with a symbolic star shape on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work for radio. During 1974 Gosden was living in Palm Springs, California and was the best man for Frank Sinatra's 1976 wedding to Barbara Marx. During 1977, Gosden was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame along with Correll. https://store.earthstation1.com/amos-39n39-andy-radio-mp3-dvd-complete-broad39393.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Hellzapoppin' 1941 Olsen & Johnson DVD, MP4 Video Download, USB Stick
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1987: #DOTD: #RIP: Slam Stewart, African American jazz double bass player, whose trademark style was his ability to bow the bass (arco) and simultaneously hum or sing an octave higher (b. September 21, 1914) #dies of congestive heart failure in Binghamton, New York, aged 73. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. Slam Stewart was born Leroy Eliot Stewart in Englewood, New Jersey. He was a violinist before switching to bass at the age of 20. Stewart began playing string bass while attending Dwight Morrow High School. While attending the Boston Conservatory, he heard Ray Perry singing along with his violin. This gave him the inspiration to follow suit with his bass. In 1937, Stewart teamed with Slim Gaillard to form the novelty jazz act Slim and Slam. The duo's biggest hit was "Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)" in 1938. Stewart found regular session work throughout the 1940s with Lester Young, Fats Waller, Coleman Hawkins, Erroll Garner, Art Tatum, Johnny Guarnieri, Red Norvo, Don Byas, Benny Goodman, and Beryl Booker. One of the most famous sessions he played on took place in 1945, when Stewart played with Dizzy Gillespie's group (which featured Charlie Parker). Out of those sessions came some of the classics of bebop such as "Groovin' High" and "Dizzy Atmosphere". He taught at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York, and at Yale University. https://store.earthstation1.com/hellzapoppin39-dvd-olsen-and-johnson-vaudeville-lindyhoppi39.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Bob Dylan's KQED-TV Francisco Press Conference 12/3/65 MP4 Or DVD
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1965: Bob Dylan's KQED Interview: -- At one point during Bob Dylan's December 3, 1965 KQED press conference, he held up a poster for a Friday, December 10th benefit for The San Francisco Mime Troupe (the first rock dance at Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium), one of the first public dances to feature the Jefferson Airplane, and featuring The Great Society (which in part became The Jefferson Airplane). He then remarked "I would like to go if I could!" Impressario Bill Graham was in the audience of the press conference, in which he asked Dylan questions; Dylan knew who he was, and in fact intended to show the poster and mention the show as a favor to Graham :) . https://store.earthstation1.com/bob-dylan-kqed-tv-francisco-press-conference-12-3-65-mp4-or-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Color Adjustment 40 Years Of Black America On Broadcast TV DVD MP4 USB
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 2005: #DOTD: #RIP: Richard Pryor, African American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, writer, screenwriter and Prince Hall Freemason (b. December 1, 1940) #dies of a third heart attack in Los Angeles. He was taken to a local hospital after his wife's attempts to resuscitate him failed. He was pronounced dead at 7:58 a.m. PST. His widow Jennifer was quoted as saying, "At the end, there was a smile on his face." He was cremated, and his ashes were given to his family. His ashes were later spread in 2019 by his widow, Jennifer, in Hana, Hawaii. Forensic pathologist Michael Hunter believes Pryor's fatal heart attack was caused by coronary artery disease that was at least partially brought about by years of tobacco smoking. Richard Pryor was born Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor in Peoria, Illinois. He grew up in a brothel run by his grandmother, Marie Carter, where his alcoholic mother, Gertrude L. (nee Thomas), was a prostitute. His father, LeRoy "Buck Carter" Pryor (June 7, 1915 - September 27, 1968), was a former boxer, hustler and pimp. After Gertrude abandoned him when he was 10, Pryor was raised primarily by Marie, a tall, violent woman who would beat him for any of his eccentricities. Pryor was one of four children raised in his grandmother's brothel. He was sexually abused at age seven, and expelled from school at the age of 14. While in Peoria, he became a Prince Hall Freemason at a local lodge. Richard Pryor reached a broad audience with his trenchant observations and storytelling style, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential stand-up comedians of all time. Pryor's body of work includes many concert movies and recordings: Richard Pryor: Live & Smokin' (1971), That Nigger's Crazy (1974), ...Is It Something I Said? (1975), Bicentennial Nigger (1976), Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (1979), Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip (1982), and Richard Pryor: Here and Now (1983). As an actor, he starred mainly in comedies such as Silver Streak (1976), but occasionally in dramas, such as Paul Schrader's Blue Collar (1978), or action films, such as Superman III (1983). He collaborated on many projects with actor Gene Wilder. Another frequent collaborator was actor/comedian/writer Paul Mooney. Pryor won an Emmy Award (1973) and five Grammy Awards (1974, 1975, 1976, 1981, and 1982). In 1974, he also won two American Academy of Humor awards and the Writers Guild of America Award. The first-ever Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor was presented to him in 1998. He was listed at number one on Comedy Central's list of all-time greatest stand-up comedians. In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked him first on its list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time. https://store.earthstation1.com/color-adjustment-40-years-of-black-americans-on-tv-dvd-download-u40.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Golden Age Of Rock 'N' Roll DVD, MP4 Video Download, Flash Drive
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1967: #DOTD: #RIP: Otis Redding, nicknamed "The King Of Soul", African American singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger, producer and talent scout, best known for his recording "(Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay", co-written with fellow Stax Records alumnus, guitarist Steve Cropper of Booker T And The MGs, which became the first posthumous number-one record on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R & B charts, considered one of the greatest singers in the history of American popular music and a seminal artist in soul music and rhythm and blues (b. September 9, 1941) #dies in a plane crash along with members of The Bar-Kays. The band was traveling to performances in Redding's Beechcraft H18 aeroplane. Although the weather was poor, with heavy rain and fog, and despite warnings, the plane took off from Cleveland Ohio. Four miles before their destination at Truax Field in Madison, the pilot radioed for permission to land. Shortly thereafter, the plane crashed into Lake Monona. Bar-Kays member Ben Cauley, the accident's only survivor, was sleeping shortly before the accident. He woke just before impact to see bandmate Phalon Jones look out a window and exclaim, "Oh, no!" Cauley said the last thing he remembered before the crash was unbuckling his seat belt. He then found himself in frigid water, grasping a seat cushion to keep afloat. A non-swimmer, he was unable to rescue the others. The cause of the crash was never determined. James Brown claimed in his autobiography The Godfather Of Soul that he had warned Redding not to fly in the plane. He is buried at The Big O Ranch Redding Family Estate Grounds in Round Oak, Georgia. Otis Redding was born Otis Ray Redding Jr. in Dawson, Georgia. Redding's style of singing gained inspiration from the gospel music that preceded the genre. His singing style influenced many other soul artists of the 1960s, such as James Carr and Freddie Jackson. (Woodstra and Elewine) During his lifetime, his recordings were produced by Stax Records, based in Memphis, Tennessee. Initially popular mainly with African Americans, Redding eventually reached an ever-widening American pop music audience. Along with his group, he first played small shows in the American South. Redding later performed at the popular Los Angeles night club Whisky a Go Go and toured Europe, performing in London, Paris and other major cities. He burst into national and international stardom with his performance at The Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. Shortly before his death in a plane crash, Redding wrote and recorded his iconic "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" with Steve Cropper. That song and the album The Dock of the Bay were the first posthumous single and album respectively to reach number one on the UK Albums Chart. Redding's premature death devastated Stax. Already on the verge of bankruptcy, the label soon discovered that the Atco division of Atlantic Records owned the rights to his entire song catalog. Redding received many posthumous accolades, including two Grammy Awards, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and induction into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, the Black Music & Entertainment Walk of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In addition to "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay", "Respect" and "Try a Little Tenderness" are among his best-known songs. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-golden-age-of-rock-39n39-roll-dvd-complete-tv-series-5-39395.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Offshore Pirate Radio 1960s-1980s MP3s DVD, Audio Download, USB Drive
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1967: #DOTD: #RIP: Four members of The Bar-Kays #dies in a plane crash - Jimmie King (born June 8, 1949; guitar), Ronnie Caldwell (born December 27, 1948; electric organ), Phalon Jones (born 1948; saxophone), and Carl Cunningham (born 1948; drums) - and their partner, Matthew Kelly, along with Otis Redding. The band was traveling to performances in Redding's Beechcraft H18 aeroplane. Although the weather was poor, with heavy rain and fog, and despite warnings, the plane took off from Cleveland Ohio. Four miles before their destination at Truax Field in Madison, the pilot radioed for permission to land. Shortly thereafter, the plane crashed into Lake Monona. Bar-Kays member Ben Cauley, the accident's only survivor, was sleeping shortly before the accident. He woke just before impact to see bandmate Phalon Jones look out a window and exclaim, "Oh, no!" Cauley said the last thing he remembered before the crash was unbuckling his seat belt. He then found himself in frigid water, grasping a seat cushion to keep afloat. A non-swimmer, he was unable to rescue the others. The cause of the crash was never determined. James Brown claimed in his autobiography The Godfather of Soul that he had warned Redding not to fly in the plane. https://store.earthstation1.com/offshore-pirate-radio-2-dual-layer-mp3-dvds-uk-amp-euro23.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: WABC Radio Airchecks MP3 Collection 1960s-1980s DVD, MP3 Download, USB
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1941: #BOTD: #HBD! Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer, songwriter and actor, best known outside Japan for his international hit song "Ue o Muite Aruko" (Japanese: "I Look Up As I Walk", known as "Sukiyaki" in English-speaking markets) released by Toshiba Records, which was sung in Japanese and sold over 13 million copies (d. August 12, 1985) is #born in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, to Hiroshi Sakamoto, a cargo tender officer, and his second wife, Iku. He was the youngest of his father's nine children, which is why he was nicknamed Kyu-chan (Japanese: "Lil nine"). Kyu is also an alternate reading of the kanji of his given name, Hisashi. Sakamoto's solo career had been inaugurated with "Ue o Muite Aruko", after he left the band The Drifters (Japanese band). The song was first heard on the NHK entertainment program Yume de Aimasho (Japanese: "Dream Come True") on August 16, 1961. It became a smash hit and was released on red vinyl on October 15. It remained the highest selling record until January 1962, three months after its release. His international breakthrough came in 1963 during a visit to Japan by Louis Benjamin, an executive of British record company Pye Records. Hearing the song several times, Benjamin decided to bring it back to England. Due to concerns that the title would be too hard for English-speakers to pronounce or remember, the song was renamed "Sukiyaki", after the Japanese cooked beef dish familiar to the English. The new title was intended to sound both catchy and distinctive in Japanese, but other than the language, it had no actual connection to the song. In 1963, Capitol Records released the song in the US with the alternate title, eventually selling over one million copies,] and remaining number one on the Billboard Hot 100 number one single for three weeks in June 1963, making Sakamoto the first Asian recording artist to have a number one song on the chart. The song grew to become one of the world's best-selling singles of all time, selling over 13 million copies worldwide. "Ue o Muite Aruko" was written by lyricist Rokusuke Ei and composer Hachidai Nakamura. Ei wrote the lyrics while walking home from a Japanese student demonstration protesting against a continued US military presence in the country, expressing his frustration at the failed efforts. The lyrics tell the story of a man who looks up and whistles while he is walking so that his tears will not fall. The verses of the song describe his memories and feelings. Rokusuke Ei wrote this song while coming back from a protest against the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between the United States and Japan (also known in Japan as Anpo Joyaku ("Security Treaty") or just Anpo ("Security") for short) and feeling dejected about the failure of the protest movement, but the lyrics were rendered purposefully generic so that they might refer to any lost love. Kyu Sakamoto died in the August 12, 1985 Japan Airlines Flight 123 crash, a scheduled Boeing 747SR domestic flight from Tokyo's Haneda Airport to Osaka International Airport, Japan. It is the worst single air plane disaster in world history, and the worst air disaster in Japanese history, second only to the two plane Tenerife Airport Disaster of 1977 involving KLM Flight 4805 and Pan Am Flight 1736. A sudden decompression twelve minutes into the flight caused the plane to crash in the area of Mount Takamagahara, Ueno, Gunma Prefecture, 100 kilometres (62 miles; 54 nautical miles) from Tokyo thirty-two minutes later. The crash site was on Osutaka Ridge, near Mount Osutaka. Japan's Aircraft Accident Investigation Commission officially concluded that the rapid decompression was caused by a faulty repair by Boeing technicians after a tailstrike incident during a landing at Osaka Airport in 1978. The rear bulkhead of the plane had been repaired with an improperly installed doubler plate, compromising the plane's airworthiness. Kyu Sakamoto's remains are interred at The Chokoku Temple in Minato-Ku, Tokyo, Japan. https://store.earthstation1.com/wabc-musicradio-shows-mp3-dvd-60s80s-am-360807775.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: An Old Time Radio Christmas MP3 Set DVD, Audio Download, USB Stick
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1946 #DOTD: #RIP: Damon Runyon, American newspaperman and short story writer, best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era (b. October 4, 1880) #dies of throat cancer in New York City, aged 66. His body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered from a DC-3 airplane over Broadway in Manhattan by Eddie Rickenbacker on December 18, 1946; this was an infringement of the law, but widely approved. The family plot of Damon Runyon is located at Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York. Damon Runyon was born Alfred Damon Runyon in Manhattan, Kansas. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from Brooklyn or Midtown Manhattan. The adjective "Runyonesque" refers to this type of character and the type of situations and dialog that Runyon depicts. He spun humorous and sentimental tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, and gangsters, few of whom go by "square" names, preferring instead colorful monikers such as "Nathan Detroit", "Benny Southstreet", "Big Jule", "Harry the Horse", "Good Time Charley", "Dave the Dude", or "The Seldom Seen Kid". His distinctive vernacular style is known as "Runyonese": a mixture of formal speech and colorful slang, almost always in the present tense, and always devoid of contractions. He is credited with coining the phrase "Hooray Henry", a term now used in British English to describe the upper-class version of a loud-mouthed, arrogant twit. Runyon's fictional world is also known to the general public through the musical Guys and Dolls based on two of his stories, "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure". The musical additionally borrows characters and story elements from a few other Runyon stories, most notably "Pick The Winner". The film Little Miss Marker (and its three remakes, Sorrowful Jones, 40 Pounds of Trouble and the 1980 Little Miss Marker) grew from his short story of the same name. Runyon was also a newspaper reporter, covering sports and general news for decades for various publications and syndicates owned by William Randolph Hearst. Already known for his fiction, he wrote a well-remembered "present tense" article on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Presidential inauguration in 1933 for the Universal Service, a Hearst syndicate, which was merged with the co-owned International News Service in 1937. https://store.earthstation1.com/christmas-radio-mp3-dvd-old-time-broadcast-antholog3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: It's A Joke Son! (1947) Kenny Delmar As Senator Claghorn DVD, MP4, USB
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1903 #BOTD: #HBD! Una Merkel, American stage, film, radio, and television actress, and beauty (d. January 2, 1986) is #born in Covington, Kentucky. She acted on stage in New York in the 1920s. She went to Hollywood in 1930 and became a popular film actress. Two of her best-known performances are in the films 42nd Street and Destry Rides Again. She won a Tony Award in 1956 for her role on Broadway in The Ponder Heart, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in Summer and Smoke (1961). She was also featured as Brian Keith's character's housekeeper, Verbena, in the Walt Disney comedy The Parent Trap in 1961. Her final film role was opposite Elvis Presley in Spinout (1966). Una Merkel died in Los Angeles at the age of 82. She is buried near her parents, Arno and Bessie Merkel, in Highland Cemetery in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky. For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Una Merkel has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (6230 Hollywood Boulevard). In 1991, a historical marker was dedicated to her in her hometown of Covington. https://store.earthstation1.com/it39s-a-joke-son-dvd-1947-kenny-delmar-as-senator-cl391948.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Entertaining The Troops: American Entertainers In World War II MP4 DVD
Today, December 10, 2025
December 10, 1914: #BOTD: #HBD! Dorothy Lamour, American actress and singer (d. September 22, 1996) is #born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton in New Orleans, the daughter of Carmen Louise (nee LaPorte; 1892-1930) and John Watson Slaton (1895-1963), both of whom were waiters. Lamour was of English, French and possibly also distant Irish descent. Her parents' marriage lasted only a few years. Her mother married for the second time to Clarence Lambour, whose surname Dorothy later adopted and modified as her stage name.That marriage also ended in divorce when Dorothy was a teenager. Mary Leta Dorothy Lamour is best remembered for having appeared in the Road to... movies, a series of successful comedies starring Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. Lamour began her career in the 1930s as a big band singer. In 1936, she moved to Hollywood, where she signed with Paramount Pictures. Her appearance as Ulah in The Jungle Princess (1936) brought her fame and marked the beginning of her image as the "Sarong Queen". In 1940, Lamour made her first Road series comedy film Road to Singapore. The Road series films were popular during the 1940s. The sixth film in the series, Road to Bali, was released in 1952. By this time, Lamour's screen career began to wane, and she focused on stage and television work. In 1961, Crosby and Hope teamed for The Road to Hong Kong, but actress Joan Collins was cast as the female lead. Lamour made a brief appearance and sang a song near the end of that film. In the 1970s, Lamour revived her nightclub act, and in 1980, released her autobiography My Side of the Road. She made her final movie appearance in 1987. Lamour married her second husband, William Ross Howard III, in 1943. They had two sons and remained married until Howard's death in 1978. Dorothy Lamour died in her North Hollywood home from a heart attack, aged 81. Her funeral was held at St. Charles Catholic Church in North Hollywood, California, where she was a member. She is interred in a modest grave in the Forest Lawn, Hollywood Hills Cemetery of Los Angeles. For her contribution to the radio and motion picture industry, Lamour has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her star for her radio contributions is located at 6240 Hollywood Boulevard, and her star for her motion picture contributions is located at 6332 Hollywood Boulevard. https://store.earthstation1.com/entertaining-the-troops-american-entertainers-in-world-war-ii-mp4-dvd.html