Great Moments of the 20th Century

Compilation by Various Artists

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Inventor Marconi Talks About Sending the First Transatlantic Radio Transmission (1936)
    1:02
  2. 2.
    The Double-Sided Record New From the Columbia Graphophone Company Offers Improved Sound and Durability (1904)
    1:59
  3. 3.
    Inventor Thomas Edison Announces the Age of Electricity (1908)
    1:03
  4. 4.
    Commander Robert E. Peary Expounds on the Allure of Arctic Exploration (1909)
    0:47
  5. 5.
    Survivor Gives Harrowing Account of the RMS Titanic Disaster (1936)
    2:25
  6. 6.
    Presidential Candidate Woodrow Wilson Makes the Case for a Living Wage (1912)
    1:35
  7. 7.
    British Member of Parliament Horatio Bottomley Asserts That We Are Witnessing That Greatest Armageddon (1915)
    0:54
  8. 8.
    American Federation of Labor President Samuel Gompers Explains U.S. Efforts in World War I (1916)
    1:12
  9. 9.
    Blackjack Commander of American Expeditionary Forces in France General J.J. ‘Blackjack’ Pershing Asks For… (1917)
    0:32
  10. 10.
    Former Ambassador to Germany James Gerard Challenges German-Americans’ Loyalty in the Face of Conflict (1917)
    0:50
  11. 11.
    News Report: Talking Film an Explanation of Inventor Lee De Forest’s Principles of Talking Film (1922)
    0:41
  12. 12.
    Attorney Clarence Darrow Proclaims ‘The Real Cause of Crime Is 'Poverty, Ignorance, Hard Luck, and…’ (1924)
    1:35
  13. 13.
    Humorist Will Rogers Muses on His Entry in the Congressional Record (1925)
    1:40
  14. 14.
    Aviator Charles Lindbergh Reflects on the First Ever Transatlantic Flight (1927)
    0:58
  15. 15.
    As the Threat of War Once Again Looms Over Europe Winston Churchill Asks ‘What Are We to Do?’ (1934)
    1:50
  16. 16.
    Expatriate Author Henry Miller Reads From His Controversial Book ‘Tropic of Cancer’ (1969)
    0:58
  17. 17.
    Louisiana Senator Huey Long Criticizes the Current Roosevelt Administration (1935)
    1:19
  18. 18.
    Indian Leader Mohandas Gandhi Shares His Beliefs (1935)
    0:40
  19. 19.
    President Franklin D Roosevelt Visits Dust Bowl States and Vows to Save the American Farming Family (1936)
    1:45
  20. 20.
    Physicist Albert Einstein Asserts That Modern Man Is Detached From the World Because of Technology (1936)
    2:31
  21. 21.
    King Edward VIII Announces His Abdication of the Throne and Declares Allegiance to His Brother, King George VI (1936)
    1:17
  22. 22.
    News Report: Disaster News Coverage of the Hindenburg Airship Disaster (1937)
    1:33
  23. 23.
    News Report: The Old Man and the Mouse: Mickey Mouse Turns 10 Years Old (1937)
    1:03
  24. 24.
    Philip Civil Rights Activist Asa Philip Randolph Pleas for Social and Racial Justice (1937)
    1:02
  25. 25.
    News Report: Aviator Howard Hughes and Crew Successfully Complete World’s First Transglobal Flight (1938)
    1:08
  26. 26.
    Sigmund Freud Discusses Psychoanalysis (1938)
    1:16
  27. 27.
    Dramatist and Critic George Bernard Shaw Defines the Pacifist Movement (1938)
    2:01
  28. 28.
    President Franklin D Roosevelt Commemorates the Nations of the World at the New York World’s Fair (1939)
    1:37
  29. 29.
    Author Margaret Mitchell Expresses Gratitude Over Winning Pulitzer Prize for ‘Gone With the Wind’ (1939)
    0:40
  30. 30.
    News Report: London Evacuation Broadcaster Edward R Murrow Reports Plans for the Evacuation of Children From London (1939)
    1:38
  31. 31.
    Nazi Germany Announces Blitzkrieg Invasion of Poland (1939)
    1:15
  32. 32.
    Nazi Germany Denies Aggression Toward Poland Claiming Self- Defence (1939)
    1:26
  33. 33.
    British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain Declares a State of War (1939)
    0:46
  34. 34.
    German Chancellor Adolf Hitler Condemns Polish Aggression Toward Germans (1939)
    2:17
  35. 35.
    Italian Fascist Leader Benito Mussolini Declares War on the Allied Powers (1940)
    1:54
  36. 36.
    American Journalist William L. Shirer Reports on French Armistice Signing (1940)
    1:36
  37. 37.
    Labor Leader John L. Lewis Supports Wendell Willkie for President (1940)
    1:53
  38. 38.
    President Franklin D Roosevelt Announces the First Peacetime Draft Lottery (1940)
    0:58
  39. 39.
    President Franklin D Roosevelt Declares War on Japan (1941)
    1:13
  40. 40.
    Mayor Fiorello Laguardia Publicizes the New Convenient New York (1942)
    1:25
  41. 41.
    World War II: Announcement of Allied Invasion of North Africa (1942)
    0:27
  42. 42.
    President Franklin D Roosevelt Reports the Allied Armies Liberation of Rome (1944)
    0:23
  43. 43.
    World War II: First Allied Planes Leave England Leading D-Day Invasion (1944)
    1:25
  44. 44.
    World War II: Report of U.S. Flag Raised Over Island of Iwo Jima (1945)
    1:14
  45. 45.
    World War II: Announcement of Allied Forces Crossing the Rhine River (1945)
    0:50
  46. 46.
    World War II: Report of German Army’s Unconditional Surrender in Italy (1945)
    0:47
  47. 47.
    World War II: Adolf Hitler Commits Suicide (1945)
    0:40
  48. 48.
    World War II: V-E Day Report of German Surrender Ending the War in Europe (1945)
    1:14
  49. 49.
    World War II: V-E Day Celebration in Times Square New York City (1945)
    1:54
  50. 50.
    President Harry Truman Signs the United Nations Charter (1945)
    1:20
  51. 51.
    News Report: Atomic Bomb Report of the U.S. Having Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima (1945)
    1:09
  52. 52.
    News Report: V-J Day Report of Japanese Surrender Ending the War in the Pacific (1945)
    0:53
  53. 53.
    British Former Prime Minister Winston Churchill Declares Eastern Europe Behind an Iron Curtain (1946)
    1:01
  54. 54.
    News Report: U.S. Census Reveals Postwar Infant Population Boom (1947)
    1:09
  55. 55.
    Secretary of State George C Marshall Announces Plan to Revitalize Postwar European Economy (1947)
    1:32
  56. 56.
    News Report: Soviet Blockade of Berlin Thwarted by U.S Air Force Efforts (1948)
    0:58
  57. 57.
    United Nations Representative Abba Eban Comments on Israel’s Nationhood (1948)
    1:19
  58. 58.
    President Harry Truman Mocks Naysayer Journalists in Election Victory Speech (1948)
    1:50
  59. 59.
    News Report: White House Issues Statement That Soviet Union Has Atomic Bomb (1949)
    0:15
  60. 60.
    News Report: Pennant Clinched Bobby Thompson Secures New York Giants’ National League Pennant Win With Game-Clinching Home Run (1951)
    1:33
  61. 61.
    Baseball Great Joe Dimaggio Announces His Retirement (1951)
    0:36
  62. 62.
    Vice-Presidential Candidate Richard M Nixon Defends Himself Against Allegations of Mishandled Campaign (1952)
    1:28
  63. 63.
    News Report: Stalin Dies Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin Dies at Age 73 (1953)
    0:26

Disc 2

  1. 1.
    News Report: Atomic Bomb Testing Continues (1953)
    1:59
  2. 2.
    News Report: Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain (1953)
    0:53
  3. 3.
    News Report: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Are Denied Clemency (1953)
    2:22
  4. 4.
    President Dwight D Eisenhower Announces End to Korean Conflict (1953)
    0:46
  5. 5.
    Author Ray Bradbury Provides More Positive Outlook on Future Than His Book ‘Fahrenheit 451’ Suggests (1958)
    1:04
  6. 6.
    President Dwight D Eisenhower Assures There Will Be Further Development of Polio Vaccine (1954)
    1:06
  7. 7.
    News Report: Congressmen Provide Conflicting Viewpoint on School Desegregation (1954)
    1:59
  8. 8.
    Senator Joseph McCarthy Presides at House Unamerican Activities Hearings (1954)
    2:34
  9. 9.
    New York Giants Manager Leo Derocher States Strong Leadership Is a Baseball Team's Top Asset (1954)
    1:14
  10. 10.
    Author Ernest Hemingway Delivers Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (1954)
    1:21
  11. 11.
    Cleveland Disc Jockey Alan Freed at the Top of His Form Hosting ‘The Moondog Show’ (1954)
    0:54
  12. 12.
    Ensure Your Safety With the Purchase of This Nuclear Survival Course Record Album; Supplies Are Limited (1954)
    1:49
  13. 13.
    James Dean Discusses His Craft on the Set of ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ (1954)
    0:57
  14. 14.
    News Report: Music Experts Squabble Over the Meaning of Rock and Roll (1956)
    2:15
  15. 15.
    News Report: Baseball Yankees Pitcher Don Larsen Delivers First Perfect Game in World Series History (1956)
    1:54
  16. 16.
    News Report: Hungarian Revolt Crushed by Soviets (1956)
    1:10
  17. 17.
    News Report: What Do We Know About Cuban Revolutionary Fidel Castro (1957)
    1:04
  18. 18.
    Althea Gibson Becomes First Black Athlete to Win Wimbledon Tennis Championship (1957)
    0:26
  19. 19.
    President Dwight D Eisenhower Denounces Arkansas Efforts to Enforce School Segregation (1957)
    1:07
  20. 20.
    Black Politician Adam Clayton Powell Jr Speeks Out on Notion of Freedom (1957)
    1:54
  21. 21.
    News Report: United States Successfully Launches First Orbiting Satellite ‘Explorer I’ (1958)
    1:06
  22. 22.
    Author Lorraine Hansberry Discusses Her Play ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ (1959)
    1:04
  23. 23.
    News Report: NASA Introduces First Seven Astronauts for Project Mercury (1959)
    0:55
  24. 24.
    News Report: Cuban Premier Fidel Castro Visits U.S. for First Time (1959)
    1:08
  25. 25.
    Author Allan Ginsberg and Anthropologist Margaret Mead Discuss Origins of the Term ‘Beat Generation’ (1959)
    2:17
  26. 26.
    Candidates Debate Presidential Candidates John F Kennedy and Richard M Nixon Square Off in Televised Debate (1960)
    2:12
  27. 27.
    President-Elect John F Kennedy Wins Narrow-Margin Victory (1960)
    0:56
  28. 28.
    President Dwight D Eisenhower Delivers ‘Military Industrial Complex’ Farewell Speech (1961)
    1:14
  29. 29.
    President John F Kennedy Addresses Nation With Inaugural Speech (1961)
    1:04
  30. 30.
    News Report: Bay of Pigs Invasion Denounced at United Nations Address (1961)
    0:42
  31. 31.
    Federal Communications Commission Chairman Decries Television as a Vast Wasteland (1961)
    1:19
  32. 32.
    News Report: The Birth of the Berlin Wall (1961)
    0:43
  33. 33.
    News Report: Launch of the Telstar Satellite Ushers in Age of High Speed Communications Technology (1962)
    1:09
  34. 34.
    Author John Steinbeck Discusses Winning Nobel Prize for Literature (1962)
    1:20
  35. 35.
    News Report: Debut of the World’s First Talking/Singing Computer (1962)
    0:58
  36. 36.
    President John F Kennedy Visits the Berlin Wall and Rallies Anti-Communist Support (1963)
    2:19
  37. 37.
    News Report: President John F Kennedy Assassinated (1963)
    3:52
  38. 38.
    News Report: JFK Assassination Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald Is Shot (1963)
    3:19
  39. 39.
    News Report: North Vietnamese Vessels Attack United States Navy in Gulf of Tonkin (1964)
    1:16
  40. 40.
    Activist Mario Savio Speaks Out on University of California at Berkeley ‘Educational Tyranny’ (1964)
    1:34
  41. 41.
    News Report: Reports Confirm Soviet Communist Party Personnel Shake-Up (1964)
    1:17
  42. 42.
    Activist Whitney Young Talks in Selma Alabama on the Importance of the Black Vote (1965)
    0:45
  43. 43.
    News Report: Racial Violence Breaks Out in Watts District of Los Angeles (1965)
    1:16
  44. 44.
    News Report: Vietnamese Radio Propaganda Queen ‘Hanoi Hannah’ Broadcasts to United States Troops (1966)
    0:27
  45. 45.
    Dr Christiaan Barnard Performs First Human Heart Transplant (1967)
    1:30
  46. 46.
    Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir Articulates Israel’s Need for Peace (1967)
    0:36
  47. 47.
    Senator Robert Kennedy Announces Presidential Candidacy (1968)
    0:57
  48. 48.
    President Lyndon B Johnson Declines Nomination for Re-Election (1968)
    0:38
  49. 49.
    Martin Luther King Jr Stirs Memphis Audience With ‘Mountain Top’ Speech (1968)
    1:02
  50. 50.
    News Report: Senator Robert Kennedy Is Assassinated (1968)
    1:20
  51. 51.
    News Report: Soviets Invade Czechoslovakia (1968)
    0:35
  52. 52.
    News Report: Riots Break Out at 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention (1968)
    2:07
  53. 53.
    News Report: Apollo 8 Astronauts Conduct Christmas Eve Broadcast (1968)
    0:35
  54. 54.
    Mickey Mantle Gives Farewell Speech to Yankees Fans (1969)
    0:39
  55. 55.
    Apollo 11 Astronaut Neil Armstrong Broadcasts Man’s First Steps on Moon (1969)
    0:14
  56. 56.
    Beatle Paul McCartney Refutes Rumors of His Death (1969)
    0:33
  57. 57.
    News Report: Thousands of Protesters Show Support on Vietnam Moratorium Day (1969)
    0:48
  58. 58.
    Vice President Spiro Agnew Lashes Out Against ‘The Media Elite’ (1969)
    1:46

Disc 3

  1. 1.
    Commander James A. Lovell, Jr Reports From Apollo 13: ‘Houston We’ve Had a Problem’ (1970)
    0:15
  2. 2.
    National Voting Age Is Lowered to 18 (1970)
    0:40
  3. 3.
    New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug Testimonial on the Equal Rights Amendment (1970)
    0:47
  4. 4.
    National Organization of Women Founder Betty Friedan Speaks Out During the ‘Women’s Strike for Equal Rights’ (1970)
    2:10
  5. 5.
    President Richard M. Nixon Announces Plans to Visit Communist China (1971)
    0:24
  6. 6.
    Future British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher Cites the Ability of Women to Succeed in Government (1971)
    1:13
  7. 7.
    United Nations Officially Recognizes Peoples Republic of China (1971)
    1:13
  8. 8.
    Governor Ronald Reagan Views George Wallace Assassination Attempt as Outgrowth of Hatred in America (1972)
    1:39
  9. 9.
    Olympic Athletes Are Taken Hostage in Munich (1972)
    1:02
  10. 10.
    Secretary of State Henry Kissinger Announces ‘Peace Is at Hand’ In Vietnam (1972)
    1:00
  11. 11.
    Court Decision Legalizes Abortion in Roe v Wade (1973)
    1:28
  12. 12.
    Members of American Indian Movement Take Over Wounded Knee South Dakota (1973)
    0:34
  13. 13.
    Dispute at White House Over Release of Watergate Tapes (1973)
    1:06
  14. 14.
    President Richard M Nixon Concedes ‘One Can Only Be Angry With Those He Respects’ (1973)
    2:27
  15. 15.
    President Richard M Nixon’s Resignation ‘I Have Never Been a Quitter’ (1974)
    1:13
  16. 16.
    President Richard M Nixon Bids Farewell to His White House Staff (1974)
    1:53
  17. 17.
    President Gerald Ford Gives Inaugural Speech (1974)
    1:12
  18. 18.
    South Vietnam Surrenders to Vietcong (1975)
    0:36
  19. 19.
    Exiled Russian Novelist Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn Addresses Harvard Graduating Class (1975)
    0:52
  20. 20.
    Astronaut Thomas Stafford and Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov Seal Joint Mission With Handshake in Space (1975)
    0:54
  21. 21.
    Egyptian President Anwar El-Sadat Gives Goodwill Address to Congress (1975)
    1:37
  22. 22.
    Congresswoman Barbara Jordan Becomes First Black Woman to Deliver the Keynote Address at the Democratic Convention (1976)
    1:02
  23. 23.
    Viking I Travels 500 Million Miles to Land on Mars (1976)
    0:54
  24. 24.
    Former Beatle John Lennon Finally Wins Residency Status in United States (1976)
    1:37
  25. 25.
    Outbreak of Legionnaires Disease (1976)
    0:50
  26. 26.
    Space Shuttle Enterprise Passes First Flight Test (1977)
    1:15
  27. 27.
    Elvis Presley Dies at 42 (1977)
    0:42
  28. 28.
    The Observations of San Francisco Politician Harvey Milk (1978)
    0:30
  29. 29.
    Pope John Paul I Dies Suddenly (1978)
    0:44
  30. 30.
    San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Dianne Feinstein Discloses the Murders of Mayor George (1978)
    0:29
  31. 31.
    President Jimmy Carter Discusses Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty (1979)
    0:37
  32. 32.
    Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh Advises Citizens of Possible Radioactivity After Three Mile Island (1979)
    0:37
  33. 33.
    Entrepreneur Ted Turner Officially Inaugurates the Cable News Network (1980)
    0:54
  34. 34.
    Labor Unrest in Poland (1980)
    0:16
  35. 35.
    President Jimmy Carter Announces Release of 52 American Hostages in Iran (1981)
    0:34
  36. 36.
    Conflicting Announcement of the Assassination Attempt on President Ronald Reagan (1981)
    1:47
  37. 37.
    Assassin Wounds Pope John Paul II (1981)
    1:01
  38. 38.
    President Ronald Reagan Lays Down the Law to Striking Air Traffic Controllers (1981)
    0:31
  39. 39.
    Britain and Argentina at War Over Falkland Islands (1982)
    1:10
  40. 40.
    Soviets Down Korean Airlines Flight 007 (1983)
    0:25
  41. 41.
    Report of U.S. Invasion From Grenada (1983)
    0:26
  42. 42.
    Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster (1986)
    2:34
  43. 43.
    President Ronald Reagan Denies Allegations of Secret Deals With Iran (1986)
    1:03
  44. 44.
    1988 Democratic Vice-Presidential Candidate Lloyd Bentsen to Republican Candidate Dan Quayle ‘Senator, You’re No Jack Kennedy’ (1988)
    1:25
  45. 45.
    President Ronald Reagan Envisions ‘The Shining City’ (1989)
    1:01
  46. 46.
    Report of Chinese Government Response to Student Revolt From Tiananmen Square Beijing (1989)
    1:44
  47. 47.
    Operation Desert Storm Begins (1991)
    1:37
  48. 48.
    Law Professor Anita Hill Testifies Against Judge Clarence Thomas in Senate Confirmation Hearings (1991)
    2:31
  49. 49.
    Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Gives His Testimony (1991)
    2:06
  50. 50.
    Verdict Observations About the Rodney King Verdict and Ensuing Riots in Los Angeles (1992)
    1:38
  51. 51.
    California State Senator Diane Watson Seeks Culpability for the Los Angeles Riots (1992)
    1:13
  52. 52.
    Motorist Rodney King Implores ‘Can’t We All Get Along’ (1992)
    0:11
  53. 53.
    FBI Tactical Briefing Concerning the Branch Davidians Compound in Waco Texas (1993)
    1:23
  54. 54.
    Nelson Mandela Speaks on Eve of South Africa’s Presidential Election (1994)
    1:33
  55. 55.
    President Bill Clinton Condemns Bombing on Oklahoma City (1995)
    0:29
  56. 56.
    Verdict Reading of OJ Simpson Trial Verdict (1995)
    1:32
  57. 57.
    Noa Ben-Artziphilosof Gives Eulogy for Grandfather Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (1995)
    1:04
  58. 58.
    General Colin Powell Declines Bid for Presidency (1995)
    1:26
  59. 59.
    Unabomber Suspect Theodore Kaczynski Is Apprehended (1996)
    0:36
  60. 60.
    Richard Jewell Denies Being Responsible for the Bomb Explosion at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta (1996)
    0:47
  61. 61.
    British Scientist Ian Wilmut Discusses Human Cloning (1997)
    2:08
  62. 62.
    Britain Returns Conservatorship of Hong Kong to China (1997)
    1:06
  63. 63.
    Diana Princess of Wales Dies in Car Crash (1997)
    0:29
  64. 64.
    Linda Tripp Records Monica Lewinski (1997)
    2:26
  65. 65.
    President Bill Clinton Avows ‘I Did Not Have Sex With That Woman Miss Lewinski’ (1998)
    0:41
  66. 66.
    President Bill Clinton Testifies His Explanation Was ‘Legally Accurate’ (1998)
    0:31
  67. 67.
    Mark McGwire Breaks Roger Maris’ Single Season Home Run Record (1998)
    0:29
  68. 68.
    U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan Appeals for ‘Peace Over War’ In Kosovo (1999)
    0:52
  69. 69.
    U.S. Returns Convervatorship of the Panama Canal Back to Panama (1999)
    0:41
  70. 70.
    Record Breaking Stock Exchange Frenzy Continues (1999)
    0:28
  71. 71.
    President Bill Clinton Observes the Dawning of the New Millennium (1999)
    2:16
  72. 72.
    The Celebration of New Year’s Eve 1999 Times Square (1999)
    0:24

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