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Tammy Lyn Homolka (January 1, 1975 – December 24, 1990) was a Canadian girl who was killed by her older sister Karla Homolka and Karla's husband Paul Bernardo.On Christmas Eve 1990, shortly before what would have been Tammy's 16th birthday on New Year's Day (January 1, 1991), Karla and Bernardo plied Tammy with alcoholic drinks laced with the sedative Halcion.
The fireside chats were a series of evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, between 1933 and 1944.Roosevelt spoke with familiarity to millions of Americans about recovery from the Great Depression, the promulgation of the Emergency Banking Act in response to the banking crisis, the 1936 recession, New Deal initiatives, and the course of ...
Harry C. Butcher was born in Springville, Iowa on November 1, 1901. Following his graduation from Iowa State College, in 1929 Butcher began a career in radio broadcasting. [1] He opened the Washington, D.C. office of CBS and served as its director until 1932. Beginning in 1932, he was the manager, and later vice-president, of the CBS Radio ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt first used what would become known as fireside chats in 1929 as Governor of New York. [5] His third gubernatorial address—April 3, 1929, on WGY radio—is cited by Roosevelt biographer Frank Freidel as being the first fireside chat. [6] As president he continued the tradition, which he called his fireside chats. The ...
The "Arsenal of Democracy" quotation from Franklin D. Roosevelt's fireside chat of December 29, 1940, is carved into the stone of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. "Arsenal of Democracy" was the central phrase used by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a radio broadcast on the threat to national security, delivered on December 29, 1940—nearly a year before the United States ...
Planet America is an Australian television news program on ABC News. The program is co-hosted by John Barron, [1] research associate at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, and Chas Licciardello (The Chaser), [2] and premiered on 10 February 2012. The program was launched to cover American political news events ahead of ...
Alan Maitland. Maitland's grave site at St. Mark's Anglican Church cemetery in Port Hope, Ontario. Alan Maitland (February 13, 1920 – February 11, 1999) was a Canadian radio broadcaster. He was a longtime host for CBC Radio, starting as an announcer in 1947 and was later cohost of As It Happens from 1974 to 1993.
June 6, 1944 (Tuesday) D-Day: Operation Overlord commenced with the crossing of nearly 160,000 Allied troops over the English Channel to land on the beaches of Normandy, France. The battle for Pointe du Hoc resulted in Allied victory, while the Battle of Merville Gun Battery was fought to inconclusive result. The British executed the capture of ...