A day that shook the world
By: BBC Enterprises
Contributors: Humphrys, John; British Broadcasting Corporation; BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc; Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Series: HIS 220B (NU course)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 173
Subjects: Modern History
Description: Features key historic events, through the use of archival footage, pivotal days in the history of the 20th century.
Notes: DVD release of the original 1992 production.

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Written by Gordon Carr.

Narrator: John Humphrys.

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Table of contents: title: pt. 1. 1900-1960s: Queen Victoria's funeral (1901) ; Wright brothers (1903) ; Battle of the Somme (1916) ; Abdication of Czar Nicholas (1917) ; Irish free state (1921) ; Britain's first general strike (1926) ; Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight (1927) ; Hitler's appointment as chancellor (1933) ; King Edward the 8th, the first King to abdicate the crown (1936) ; Crash of the airship Hindenburg (1937) ; Rise of Hitler (1938) ; German invasion of Poland (1939) ; Blitz on London (1940) ; Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (1941) ; Turning points of World War II (1942) ; Siege of Stalingrad (1943) ; D-Day (1944) ; Nuclear weapons testing (1945) ; Destruction of Hiroshima (1945) ; British rule on the Indian sub-continent came to an end (1947) ; Berlin airlift (1948) ; Korean War (1950) ; Fall of Dien Bien Phu (1954) ; Death of Stalin (1956) ; Suez crisis (1956) ; Suppression of the Hungarian revolution (1956) ; Inauguration of John F. Kennedy (1961) ; Yuri Gagarin's orbit of the Earth (1961)(85 min.); title: pt. 2. 1960s-1980s: Raising of the Berlin Wall (1961) ; Cuban missile crisis (1962) ; JFK's assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald's murder (1963) ; Six-Day War (1967) ; Student/worker riots in France (1968) ; Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968) ; Lunar landing of Apollo 11 (1969) ; Bloody Sunday in Ireland (1972) ; Ayatollah Khomeini's return to Iran (1979) ; Hostage rescue at the Iranian embassy in London (1980) ; Falkland Islands War (1982) ; Sinking of HMS Sheffield (1982) ; Famine in Ethiopia (1984) ; British soccer riots at the European Cup finals in Brussels (1985) (44 min.); title: pt. 3. 1980s-1990s: American bombing of Libya (1986) ; Explosion of the space shuttle Challenger (1986) ; Sinking of the car ferry Townsend Thoresen (1987) ; Bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland (1988) ; Tiananmen Square massacre (1989) ; Tearing down of the Berlin Wall (1989) ; Overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu (1989) ; Nelson Mandela's release from prison (1990) ; Iraqi invasion of Kuwait (1990) ; Margaret Thatcher's political upset (1990) ; Operation Desert Storm (1991) ; Attempted coup by Soviet military leaders (1991) ; Treaty that set the groundwork for the euro (1991) ; Los Angeles riots over the Rodney King incident (1992) ; Marital unhappiness of Princess Diana (47 min.).