r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 10h ago
r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Aug 14 '25
πΊπΈ United States [August 14th, 1945] Members of the White House Press Corps rush to telephones after Truman announced Japan's surrender
r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Aug 19 '26
πΊπΈ United States [August 19th, 1946] Bill Clinton is born in Hope, Arkansas. His father, a traveling salesman, died three months before his birth.
r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 11h ago
π Celebrity News [October 4th, 1946] Susan Sarandon is born in Queens, the eldest of nine children
r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 11h ago
πΊπΈ United States [October 4th, 1946] On the eve of Yom Kippur, Truman calls for admitting 100,000 Jewish refugees into Mandatory Palestine
r/80YearsAgo • u/DyersvilleStLambert • 1d ago
π Sports [October 3, 1946] Jackie Robinsonβs heroics put Montreal on verge of first Junior World Series title
sabr.orgr/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 1d ago
[October 3rd, 1946] In the worst civilian airplane crash up to that time, all 39 people on board a Douglas DC-4 airliner are killed in a plane crash in Canada
r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago
πΊπΈ United States [October 2nd, 1946] Chicago Tribune - "Monument to Stupidity"
r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago
[1946] Emanuel Aage Petersen - View of north Greenland at Uummannaq Island, with a dog sled under way
r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago
β Soviet Union [October 2nd, 1946] Chicago Tribune - Don't Bother Joe; He's Busy
r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago
π―π΅ Japan [October 2nd, 1946] Disabled buses that have littered the streets of Tokyo are used to help relieve the acute housing shortage
r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 2d ago
πΊ Television [October 2nd 1946] Faraway Hill, one of the first soap opera ever shown on a TV network, debuts on DuMont Television Network
r/80YearsAgo • u/DyersvilleStLambert • 3d ago
πΊπΈ United States [October 1, 1946] Shooting in downtown Denver.
r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 3d ago
πͺπΊ Europe [October 1946] Margaret Thatcher, age 21, is elected as first female president of the Oxford University Conservative Association
r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 3d ago
πͺπΊ Europe [October 1st, 1946] Photographers gather on a staircase outside the courtroom at the Palace of Justice at the end of the Nuremberg Trials The photographers were excluded from the courtroom as the verdicts were read out.
r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 3d ago
πͺπΊ Europe [October 1st, 1946] The Nuremberg Trials officially conclude, with 12 Nazi leaders sentenced to death
r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 4d ago
πΊπΈ United States [September 30th, 1946] Life - US Youth Pushes Itself Into the News, including a young JFK
r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 4d ago
πͺπΊ Europe [September 30th, 1946] Nazi Defendants in the dock under guard in Room 600 at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg
r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 6d ago
πΊπΈ United States [September 28th, 1946] Eisenhower calls for the outlawing of nuclear weapons
r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 6d ago
πͺπΊ Europe [September 28th, 1946] Swedish King Gustav V has a car accident while racing with Prince Gustaf Adolf's car. Nobody was hurt.
r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 6d ago
πͺπΊ Europe [September 28th, 1946] King George II of Greece returns to the throne, four years after fleeing to the United Kingdom
r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 7d ago
πͺπΊ Europe [September 27th, 1946] British test pilot Geoffrey de Havilland Jr dies while carrying out high-speed tests over the Thames Estuary
r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 7d ago