Free promotion on MTV helped it become a hit, and many movies followed suit. Or was it a Monkee? MTV aired 16 hours of performances from the London and Philadelphia stages. With good reason, the wildly creative stop-motion animation broke the mold for what a video could be and remains an artistic high for the medium.
The acoustic-based show was a big hit for MTV, which turns 40 on Aug. Hip-hop legends, from left to right, Dr. The three hosted the influential show. The group hosted the pilot of the U. Other themed shows soon followed. Its mix of videos, interviews and guest appearances helped hip-hop break out. How much so? MTV turns 40 on Aug. In this Sept. AP File Photo. Reubens made his first public appearance since being arrested on an indecent exposure charge in Florida. On Aug. The winning viewer spent a weekend with the notoriously hard partying band.
VMAs Controversy No. Bret Michaels and C. DeVille of the band Poison got in a fistfight, because why not? Behind the camera : In , the network decided to add the names of music video directors to their clips.
This surely helped creative filmmakers such as Spike Jonze, Michel Gondry and David Fincher make the jump to features. And Michael Bay, too. Simmering racial tensions and economic frustrations boil over in New York City on the night of August 1, , culminating in what is now known as the Harlem Riot of During an altercation in the lobby of the Braddock Hotel, a white police officer shoots a Black soldier, Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl hiding out in Nazi-occupied Holland whose diary came to serve as a symbol of the Holocaust, writes her final entry three days before she and her family are arrested and placed in concentration camps.
Frank, 15 at the time, received the diary on Martin, is released. Although not initially a The destruction is so massive other American PT boats in the area assume the crew is dead. Two crewmen were, in fact, killed, but 11 survived, including Lt. John F. Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. Explorer Christopher Columbus sets foot on the American mainland for the first time, at the Paria Peninsula in present-day Venezuela.
Thinking it an island, he christened it Isla Santa and claimed it for Spain. Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy, in Little is known of his During World War II, an advance Soviet armored column under General Konstantin Rokossovski reaches the Vistula River along the eastern suburb of Warsaw, prompting Poles in the city to launch a major uprising against the Nazi occupation.
The revolt was spearheaded by Polish Four days after Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, Germany and Russia declare war against each other, France orders a general mobilization, and the first German army units cross into Luxembourg in preparation for the German invasion of France.
During the next three days, Located on acres in Arlington, Texas, the park was the first to On August 1, , sprinter Michael Johnson breaks the world record in the meters to win gold at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Three days earlier, Johnson had also won the meters, making him the first man in history to win both events at the Olympics.
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