TODAY IN HISTORY
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 8, 1998, Ramzi Yousef (RAHM’-zee YOO’-sef), the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was sentenced in New York to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
On this date:
In 1815, the last major engagement of the War of 1812 came to an end as U.S. forces defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, not having gotten word of the signing of a peace treaty.
In 1935, rock-and-roll legend Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi.
In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on poverty in America.”
The best TV shows on Amazon Prime UK to watch during lockdown
From The Boys to The Grand Tour, these are the top shows to see us through the latest stint of sofa slumping, running from A-Z
The Boys: Amazon s blood-spattered superhero drama
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It s a streamers paradise out there. But with such a bewildering array of platforms, and reams of original content being pumped out monthly, it can be tricky to know where to start.
Especially now, when choice paralysis should be the least of your problems. To help, we ve complied our picks for the best content available on Amazon Prime UK in 2021.
Listen to us talk about unstreamable Christmas and New Year s Eve movies on
KUOW s The Record here, and then check out our list below, presented in chronological order:
USA, 1971-1974, ~60 min episodes
Sonny and Cher never made a holiday album together, but they did record multiple Christmas specials for their
Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, which ran for four years in the early 70s on CBS. Added together, the specials constitute enough jingles for an album, and luckily, a DVD was released in 2004 devoted to all of these Christmastime shows. It s seriously delightful, with special guests including Bernadette Peters and some old TV personas I can t place. These episodes air during the era of Nixon s potential impeachment, and the show s struggle to create joy around impeachment news is particularly relatable.