Vanderbilt Television News Archive

The Vanderbilt Television News Archive is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. We have been recording, preserving and providing access to television news broadcasts of the national networks since August 5, 1968. The core collection includes evening news from ABC, CBS, and NBC (since 1968), an hour per day of CNN (since 1995) and Fox News (since 2004).

This Day in History

Events on or near Apr 18
1969
Czechoslovakia's Communist Party leader, Alexander Dubcek, ousted
1980
Charlie Chan protest
1983
Terrorist bombing of US embassy

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