On September 6, 1915, a prototype tank nicknamed Little Willie
rolled off the assembly line in England. Little Willie was far
from an overnight success. It weighed 14 tons, got stuck in
trenches and crawled over rough terrain at only two miles per
hour. However, improvements were made to the original
prototype and tanks eventually transformed military
battlefields.
Little Willie as it looks today.
On August 26, 1939, the first televised Major League baseball
game was broadcast on station W2XBS, the station that was
to become WNBC-TV. Announcer Red Barber (below) called
the game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn
Dodgers at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York.
The Beatles took America by storm during their famous first
visit, wowing the millions who watched them during their
historic television appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show in
February 1964. The Beatles finally returned on August 19,
1964, more than six months after taking the East Coast by
storm.The Fab Four traveled to California to take the stage
at the Cow Palace in San Francisco for opening night of their
first-ever concert tour of North America.
Apocalypse Now, the acclaimed Vietnam War film directed
by Francis Ford Coppola, opened in theaters around the
United States on August 15, 1979.
The film was inspired in part by Joseph Conrad’s 1899
novella Heart of Darkness, among other sources.
The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards,
including Best Picture, Best Director (Coppola), and
Best Supporting Actor (Duvall); it went on to win Best
Cinematography and Best Sound.
Apocalypse Now is today considered one of the greatest
films ever made.
Francis Ford Coppola
‘I love the smell Of Napalm in The Morning’… Robert
Duvall as Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore.
Harrison Ford
Dennis Hopper
Laurence Fishburne
