Great Moments Of The 20th Century
By Various
Tracklist
- 1901-1953: The New Century, The World Wars & Fragile Peace
- Inventor Marconi Talks About Sending The First Transatlantic Radio Transmission (1936)
- The Double-Sided Record, New From The Columbia Graphophone Company, Offers Improved Sound And Durability (1904)
- Inventor Thomas Edison Announces The Age Of Electricity (1908)
- Commander Robert E. Perry Expounds On The Allure Of Arctic Exploration (April 1909)
- Survivor Gives Harrowing Account Of the R.M.S. Titanic Disaster (1936)
- Presidential Candidate Woodrow Wilson Makes The Case For A Living Wage (1912)
- British Member Of Parliament Horatio Bottomley Asserts That "We Are Witnessing That Great Armageddon" (1915)
- American Federation Of Labor President Samuel Gompers Explains U.S. Efforts In World War I (1916)
- Commander Of The American Expeditionary Forces In France, General J.J. "Black Jack" Pershing Asks For Support Of U.S. Troops (June 27, 1917)
- Former Ambassador To Germany James Gerard Challenges German-Americans' Loyalty In The Face Of Conflict (1917)
- An Explanation of Inventor Lee De Forest's Principles Of "Talking Film" (1922)
- Attorney Clarence Darrow Proclaims, "The Real Cause Of Crime Is Poverty, Ignorance, Hard Luck, And Generally Youth" (1924)
- Humorist Will Rogers Muses On His Entry In The Congressional Record (1925)
- Aviator Charles Lindbergh Reflects On The First-Ever Transatlantic Flight (May 1927)
- As The Threat Of War Once Again Looms Over Europe, Winston Churchill Asks, "What Are We To Do?" (1934)
- Expatriate Author Henry Miller Reads From His Controversial Book Tropic Of Cancer (1969)
- Louisiana Senator Huey Long Criticizes The Current Roosevelt Administration (1935)
- Indian Leader Mohandas Gandhi Shares His Beliefs (1935)
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt Visits Dust Bowl States And Vows To Save The American Farming Family (1936)
- Physicist Albert Einstein Asserts That Modern Man Is Detached From The World Because Of Technology (1936)
- King Edward VIII Announces His Abdication Of The Throne And Declares Allegiance To His Brother, King George VI (December 11, 1936)
- News Coverage Of The Hindenburg Airship Disaster (May 6, 1937)
- "The Man And The Mouse": Mickey Mouse Turns 10 Years Old (1937)
- Civil Rights Activist Asa Philip Randolph Pleas For Social And Racial Justice
- Aviator Howard Hughes And Crew Successfully Complete World's First Transglobal Flight (July 15, 1938)
- Sigmund Freud Discusses Psychoanalysis (1938)
- Dramatist And Critic George Bernard Shaw Defines The Pacifist Movement (1938)
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt Commemorates The Nations Of The World At New York World's Fair (April 30, 1939)
- Author Margaret Mitchell Expresses Gratitude Over Winning Pulitzer Prize For Gone With The Wind (1939)
- Broadcaster Edward R. Murrow Reports Plans For The Evacuation Of Children From London (August 31, 1939)
- Nazi Germany Mounts Blitzkrieg Invasion Of Poland (September 1, 1939)
- Nazi German Denies Aggression Toward Poland, Claiming Self-Defense (September 1, 1939)
- British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain Declares A State Of War (September 3, 1939)
- German Chancellor Adolf Hitler Condemns Polish Aggression Toward Germans (September 3, 1939)
- Italian Fascist Leader Benito Mussolini Declares War On The Allied Powers (June 10, 1940)
- American Journalist William L. Shirer Reports On French Armistice Signing (June 22, 1940)
- Labor Leader John L. Lewis Supports Wendell Wilkie For President (October 25, 1940)
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt Announces The First Peacetime Draft Lottery (October 29, 1940)
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt Declares War On Japan (December 8, 1941)
- Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia Publicizes The New Convenient New York (1942)
- Announcement Of Allied Invasion Of North Africa (November 8, 1942)
- President Franklin D. Roosevelt Reports The Allied Armies' Liberation Of Rome (June 5, 1944)
- First Allied Planes Leave England, Leading D-Day Invasion (June 6, 1944)
- Report Of U.S. Flag Raised Over Island Of Iwo Jima (February 23, 1945)
- Announcement Of Allied Forces Crossing The Rhine River (March 8, 1945)
- Report Of German Army's Unconditional Surrender In Italy (April 29, 1945)
- Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide (April 30, 1945)
- "V-E Day" Report Of German Surrender Ending The War In Europe (May 7, 1945)
- "V-E Day" Celebration In Times Square, New York City (May 7, 1945)
- President Harry Truman Signs The United Nations Charter (June 26, 1945)
- Report Of The U.S. Having Dropped The Atomic Bomb On Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)
- "V-J Day" Report Of Japanese Surrender Ending The War In The Pacific (August 14, 1945)
- British Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill Declares Eastern Europe Behind An "Iron Curtain" (March 5, 1946)
- U.S. Census Reveals Postwar Infant Population Boom (April 1, 1947)
- Secretary Of State George C. Marshall Announces Plan To Revitalize Postwar European Economy (June 5, 1947)
- Soviet Blockade Of Berlin Thwarted By U.S. Air Force Efforts (1948)
- United Nations Representative Abba Eban Comments On Israel's Nationhood (May 31, 1948)
- President Harry Truman Mocks Naysayer Journalists In Election Victory Speech (November 2, 1948)
- White House Issues Statement That Soviet Union Has Atomic Bomb (September 3, 1949)
- Bobby Thompson Secures New York Giants' National League Pennant Win With Game-Clinching Home Run (October 3, 1951)
- Baseball Great Joe DiMaggio Announces His Retirement (December 11, 1951)
- Vice-Presidential Candidate Richard M. Nixon Defends Himself Against Allegations Of Mishandled Campaign Contributions (September 23, 1952)
- Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin Dies At Age 73 (March 5, 1953)
- Volume 2 1953-1969: The Atomic Era, The Cold War & The '60s
- Atomic Bomb Testing Continues (March 17, 1953)
- Coronation Of Queen Elizabeth II Of Great Britain (June 2, 1953)
- Julius And Ethel Rosenberg Are Denied Clemency (June 19, 1953)
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower Officially Announces End To Korean Conflict (July 27, 1953)
- Author Ray Bradbury Provides More Positive Outlook On Future Than His Book "Fahrenheit 451" Suggests (1958)
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower Assures That There Will Be Further Development On Polio Vaccine (February 1954)
- Congressmen Provide Conflicting Viewpoints On School Desegregation (May 17, 1954)
- Senator Joseph McCarthy Presides At House Un-American Activities Committee Hearing (June 9, 1954)
- New York Giants Manager Leo Durocher States Strong Leadership Is A Baseball Team's Top Asset (1954)
- Author Ernest Hemingway Delivers Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (December 10, 1954)
- Cleveland Disc Jockey Alan Freed At The Top Of His Form Hosting The Moondog Show (1954)
- Ensure Your Safety With The Purchase Of This Nuclear Survival Course Record Album - Supplies Are Limited! (1954)
- James Dean Discusses His Craft On The Set Of Rebel Without A Cause (1954)
- Music Experts Squabble Over Meaning Of Rock 'N' Roll (July 1956)
- Yankees Pitcher Don Larsen Delivers First "Perfect Game" In World Series History (October 8, 1956)
- Hungarian Revolt Crushed By Soviets (October 23, 1956)
- What Do We Know About Cuban Revolutionary Fidel Castro? (May 3, 1957)
- Althea Gibson Becomes First Black Athlete To Win Wimbledon Tennis Championship (July 6, 1957)
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower Denounces Arkansas Effort To Enforce School Segregation (September 24, 1957)
- Black Politician Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., Speaks Out On Notion Of Freedom (1957)
- United States Successfully Launches First Orbiting Satellite, Explorer I (January 31, 1958)
- Author Lorraine Hansberry Discusses Her Play "A Raisin In The Sun" (March 11, 1959)
- NASA Introduces First Seven "Astronauts" For Project Mercury (April 9, 1959)
- Cuban Premier Fidel Castro Visits U.S. For First Time (April 17, 1959)
- Author Allen Ginsberg And Anthropologist Margaret Mead Discuss Origins Of The Term Beat Generation (1959)
- Presidential Candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon Square Off In Televised Debate (October 13, 1960)
- President-Elect John F. Kennedy Wins Narrow-Margin Victory (November 8, 1960)
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower Delivers "Military Industrial Complex" Farewell Speech (January 18, 1961)
- President John F. Kennedy Addresses Nation With Inaugural Speech (January 20, 1961)
- Bay Of Pigs Invasion Denounced At United Nations Address April 17, 1961)
- Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minnow Decries Television As A "Vast Wasteland" (May 1961)
- The Birth Of The Berlin Wall (August 13, 1961)
- Launch Of Telstar Satellite Ushers In Age Of High-Speed Communication Technology (July 10, 1962)
- Author John Steinbeck Discusses Winning Nobel Prize For Literature (December 10, 1962)
- Debut Of World's First Talking/Singing Computer (1962)
- President John F. Kennedy Is Assassinated (November 22, 1963)
- JFK Assassination Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald Is Shot (November 24, 1963)
- North Vietnamese Vessels Attack U.S. Navy In Gulf Of Tonkin (August 4, 1964)
- Activist Mario Savio Speaks Out On UC Berkeley "Educational Tyranny" (September 1964)
- Reports Confirm Soviet Communist Party Personnel Shake-Up (October 16, 1964)
- Activist Whitney Young Talks In Selma, Alabama, On The Importance Of The Black Vote (March 25, 1965)
- Racial Violence Breaks Out In Watts District Of Los Angeles (August 11, 1965)
- Vietnamese Radio Propaganda Queen "Hanoi Hannah" Broadcasts To U.S. Troops (1966)
- Dr. Christiaan Barnard Performs First Human Heart Transplant (December 3, 1967)
- Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir Articulates Israel's Need For Peace (June 1967)
- Senator Robert Kennedy Announces Presidential Candidacy (March 16, 1968)
- President Lyndon B. Johnson Declines Nomination For Reelection (March 31, 1968)
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Stirs Memphis Audience With "Mountain Top" Speech (April 3, 1968)
- Senator Robert Kennedy Is Assassinated (June 5, 1968)
- Soviets Invade Czechoslovakia (August 20, 1968)
- Riots Break Out At 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention (August 28, 1968)
- Apollo 8 Astronauts Conduct Christmas Eve Broadcast (December 24, 1968)
- Mickey Mantle Gives Farewell Speech To Yankees Fans (March 1, 1969)
- Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong Broadcasts Man's First Steps On Moon (July 20, 1969)
- Beatle Paul McCartney Refutes Rumors Of His Death (October 21, 1969)
- Thousands Of Protesters Show Support On Vietnam Moratorium Day (November 5, 1969)
- Vice President Spiro Agnew Lashes Out Against "The Media Elite" (1969)
- Volume 3 1970-1999: Equal Rights, Watergate & Glasnost
- Commander James A. Lovell, Jr., Reports From Apollo 13: "Houston, We've Had A Problem" (April 13, 1970)
- National Voting Age Is Lowered To 18 (June 22, 1970)
- New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug Testimonial On The Equal Rights Amendment (August 1970)
- National Organization For Women Founder Betty Friedan Speaks Out During The "Women's Strike For Equality" Day (August 26, 1970)
- President Richard Nixon Announces Plans To Visit Communist China (April 29, 1971)
- Future British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Cites The Ability Of Women To Succeed In Government (1971)
- United Nations Officially Recognizes People's Republic Of China (November 15, 1971)
- Governor Ronald Reagan Views George Wallace Assassination Attempt As Outgrowth Of Hatred In America (May 15, 1972)
- Olympic Athletes Are Taken Hostage In Munich (September 5, 1972)
- Secretary Of State Henry Kissinger Announces "Peace Is At Hand" In Vietnam (October 26, 1972)
- Supreme Court Decision Legalizes Abortion In Roe v. Wade (January 22, 1973)
- Members Of American Indian Movement Take Over Wounded Knee, South Dakota (February 28, 1973)
- Dispute At White House Over Release Of Watergate Tapes (October 20, 1973)
- President Richard Nixon Concedes "One Can Only Be Angry With Those He Respects" (October 26, 1973)
- President Richard Nixon's Resignation: "I Have Never Been A Quitter" (August 8, 1974)
- President Richard Nixon Bids Farewell To His White House Staff (August 9, 1974)
- President Gerald Ford Gives Inaugural Speech (August 9, 1974)
- South Vietnam Surrenders To Vietcong (April 29, 1975)
- Exiled Russian Novelist Aleksander Solzhenitsyn Addresses Harvard Graduating Class (June 30, 1975)
- Astronaut Thomas Stafford And Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov Seal Joint Mission With Handshake In Space (July 17, 1975)
- Egyptian President Anwar El-Sadat Gives Goodwill Address To Congress (November 5, 1975)
- Congresswoman Barbara Jordan Becomes First Black Woman To Deliver The Keynote Address At The Democratic Convention (July 12, 1976)
- Viking I Travels 500 Million Miles To Land On Mars (July 20, 1976)
- Former Beatle John Lennon Finally Wins Residency Status In U.S. (July 27, 1976)
- Outbreak Of Legionnaire's Disease (August 4, 1976)
- Space Shuttle Enterprise Passes First Flight Test (August 12, 1976)
- Elvis Presley Dies At 42 (august 16, 1977)
- The Observations Of San Francisco Politician Harvey Milk (June 1978)
- Pope John Paul I Dies Suddenly (September 28, 1978)
- San Francisco Board Of Supervisors President Dianne Feinstein Discloses The Murders Of Mayor George Moscone And Supervisor Harvey Milk (November 27, 1978)
- President Jimmy Carter Discusses Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty (March 26, 1979)
- Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh Advises Citizens Of Possible Radioactivity After Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident (March 28, 1979)
- Entrepreneur Ted Turner Officially Inaugurates The Cable News Network (June 1, 1980)
- Labor Unrest In Poland (August 14, 1980)
- President Jimmy Carter Announces Release Of 52 American Hostages Held In Iran (January 20, 1981)
- Conflicting Announcement Of The Assassination Attempt On President Ronald Reagan (March 30, 1981)
- Assassin Wounds Pope John Paul II (May 13, 1981)
- President Ronald Reagan Lays Down The Law To Striking Air Traffic Controllers (August 3, 1981)
- Britain And Argentina At War Over Falkland Islands (May, 1982)
- Soviets Down Korean Airlines Flight 007 (September 1, 1983)
- Reports Of U.S. Invasion From Grenada (October 25, 1983)
- Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (January 28, 1986)
- President Ronald Reagan Denies Allegations Of Secret Deals With Iran (November 19, 1986)
- 1988 Democratic VBice Presidential Candidate Lloyd Bentsen To Republican Candidate Dan Quayle "You're No Jack Kennedy" (October 5, 1988)
- President Ronald Reagan Envisions "The Shining City" (January 19, 1989)
- Report Of Chinese Government Response To Student Revolt From Tiananmen Square, Beijing (June 4, 1989)
- Operation Desert Storm Begins (January 16, 1991)
- Law Professor Anita Hill Testifies Against Judge Clarence Thomas In Senate Confirmation Hearings (October 11, 1991)
- Supreme Court Nominee Judge Clarence Thomas Gives His Testimony (October 11, 1991)
- Observations About The Rodney King Verdict And Ensuing Street Riots In Los Angeles (April 29, 1992)
- California State Senator Diane Watson Seeks Culpability For The Los Angeles Riots (April 30, 1992)
- Motorist Rodney King Implores: "Can We All Get Along?" (May 1, 1992)
- FBI Tactical Briefing Concerning The Branch Davidians' Compound In Waco, Texas (April 1993)
- Nelson Mandela Speaks On Eve Of South Africa's Presidential Election (April 29, 1994)
- President Bill Clinton Condemns Bombing In Oklahoma City (April 19, 1995)
- Reeading Of O.J. Simpson Trial Verdict (October 3, 1995)
- Noa Ben-Artzi Philosof Gives Eulogy For Grandfather Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (November 6, 1995)
- General Colin Powell Declines Bid For Presidency (November 8, 1995)
- Unabomber Suspect Theodore Kaczynski Is Apprehended (April 3, 1996)
- Richard Jewell Denies Being Responsible For The Bomb Explosion At The 1996 Summer Olympic Games In Atlanta (October 28, 1996)
- British Scientist Ian Wilmut Discusses Human Cloning (April 15, 1997)
- Britain Returns Conservatorship Of Hong King To China (June 30, 1997)
- Diana, Princess Of Wales, Dies In Car Crash (August 31, 1997)
- Linda Tripp Records Monica Lewinsky (October 16, 1997)
- President Bill Clinton Avows "I Did Not Have Sexual Relations With That Woman, Miss Lewinsky" (January 26, 1998)
- President Bill Clinton Testifies His Explanation Was "Legally Accurate" (August 17, 1998)
- Mark McGwire Breaks Roger Maris' Single-Season Home Run Record (September 8, 1998)
- U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan Appeals For "Peace Over War" In Kosovo (March 24, 1999)
- U.S. Returns Conservatorship Of The Panama Canal Back To Panama (December 31, 1999)
- Record-Breaking Stock Exchange Frenzy Continues (December 31, 1999)
- President Bill Clinton Observes The Dawning Of The New Millennium (31 December 1999)
- The Celebration Of New Year's Eve In Times Square (December 31, 1999)