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Time Rewind is a portal back in time to historic events and pop culture highlights for each day of the year. Catch our daily feature on TikTok, YouTube, Insta and FB. More at TIME-REWIND.COM.
🚀 The Soviets overshoot in their quest for the moon and POTUS slows our roll on the highways. Those stories plus a final farewell to a TV skipper as Time Rewind reminisces the events of January 2nd.
#space #speed #popmusic #onthisday #history
January 2, 2026 at 1:49 PM
It's goodbye to slavery and cigarette commercials on TV. Plus, The Beatles are snubbed but end up having the last laugh. Time Rewind ushers in the new year by taking you back to the events of January 1st.
#freedom #tv #thebeatles #popculture #onthisday
January 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Tonight we move ahead. On New Year’s Day, however, we get right back to rewinding time. Happy New Year, everybody!
#happynewyear #newyears
January 1, 2026 at 2:31 AM
🥀ON THIS DAY, Dec 31, 2015: #Grammy-winning R&B singer-songwriter #NatalieCole (“This Will Be,” “I’ve Got Love On My Mind,” “Miss You Like Crazy,” “Unforgettable”), daughter of legendary crooner and jazz pianist Nat King Cole, dies of congestive heart failure at 65.
📷 Matt Sayles/AP
#inmemoriam #rip
December 31, 2025 at 9:50 PM
ON THIS DAY, December 31, 1972: 📺🎉🎈Dick Clark begins a new holiday tradition as the first "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve” concert is broadcast on ABC. Clark hosts the annual event for the next 32 years.
📷 ABC/Dick Clark Productions
#HappyNewYear #DickClark #NYC #70s #ABC
December 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
🎉 The first New Year's Eve is celebrated in Times Square and it's Paul McCartney vs. The Beatles. You'll find those stories and more in your December 31st Time Rewind
#newyears #timessquare #thebeatles #onthisday
December 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
📺 A popular game show and Western premiere on TV and The Beatles and Destiny's Child have something in common. Time Rewind takes you back to December 30th through the decades.
#tv #gameshow #beyonce #popculture #onthisday
December 30, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Cockpit confusion leads to deadly consequences and the Y comes to America. That and more in your December 29th Time Rewind.
#aviation #ymca #popmusic #history #onthisday
December 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
🇺🇸 Congress makes the Pledge of Allegiance official and Yankee Stadium hosts "the greatest game ever played" (no, not baseball). We pack those stories and more in the December 28th Time Rewind.
December 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
A new entertainment venue opens in the heart of the Big Apple and John Lennon strikes musical gold even after his death. Time Rewind recalls the history and pop culture highlights of December 27th.
#nyc #nbc #johnlennon #onthisday #history
December 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
ON THIS DAY, December 26, 1987:
💃🕺 The "Dirty Dancing” soundtrack is the middle of a nine-week reign as the No. 1 album. It becomes one of the best-selling albums of all time.
🖌️ Album art: RCA Records

#DirtyDancing #moviemusic #80s #onthisday #popculture
December 26, 2025 at 10:16 PM
THIS DAY IN POP CULTURE, December 26, 1946:♦️♣️ Mobster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel opens the Flamingo Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, aiming to establish a stylish and cosmopolitan gambling destination in the Nevada desert.
📸 Photo credit: Nevada State Museum
December 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
A new holiday hits the calendar and something demonic lands on the big screen. It's Time Rewind for December 26th.
#holiday #horror #tech #onthisday
December 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
That time Irving and Bing gave us musical magic. We’re taking you back to Christmases of yore with Time Rewind.
December 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
🎄 One Christmas tradition is born outside the White House while another comes to an end half a world away. Those stories plus the Bee Gees and celebrity birthdays in the Christmas Eve edition of Time Rewind.
December 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
THIS DAY IN MUSIC, December 23, 1989: 🎤 "Another Day in Paradise" by Phil Collins reaches the top of the U.S. pop chart and holds there for four weeks, becoming the last No. 1 single of the #80s and first of the #90s. The track also goes on to win a Record of the Year Grammy.
🖌️ Virgin Records
December 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
THIS DAY IN HISTORY, Dec 23, 1888: 🖌👂 Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, suffering from severe depression, uses a razor to sever part of his left ear. He later documents the event in a painting titled “Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear.” Over the years, a variety of new theories emerged about his action.
December 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Foundations are laid for banking, communications and technology, plus new tunes from Ringo and the boys. Time Rewind is your gateway to the past as we recall the events of December 23rd.
December 23, 2025 at 2:39 PM
THIS DAY IN MUSIC, December 22, 1979:
🎸🎤 Pat Benatar’s breakthrough single, “Heartbreaker,” lands on the Billboard Hot 100 and climbs as high as No. 23. The Grammy-winning rocker produces 16 more hits through the 80s.
🖌️ Album art: Chrysalis Records
#PatBenatar #rock #70s #80s #onthisday #popculture
December 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
ON THIS DAY, Dec 22, 1984: 🚉 Bernhard Goetz a 37-year-old white man, shoots 4 black teenagers on a NYC subway train after they surround him and ask for $5. Goetz faces 4 charges each of attempted murder and assault but is found not guilty of everything except carrying an unlicensed gun.
📸 NYDN photo
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Colo, Corvette and Telstar, oh my! That and more as Time Rewind turns it back for December 22nd.
*ED. NOTE: Colo died shortly after her 60th birthday, on January 17, 2017.
December 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
⏰ Ten years ago today, the Galveston Daily News published a front-page story about our collaboration with Ball High School and the Galveston ISD involving the use of Time Rewind for Media Arts students. Today, schools across the U.S. use Time Rewind as broadcast and student announcement content.
December 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
A New York-bound jumbo jet blows up over Scotland and Dustin Hoffman and Russell Crowe see their names in lights. Those stories and more in the December 21st edition of Time Rewind.
#aviation #disaster #movie #history #onthisday #popculture
December 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
U.S. troops invade Panama and filmmaker Michael Moore stalks the head of GM. Those stories and more as we journey back to the events of December 20th with Time Rewind. #panama #documentary #gm #history #onthisday
December 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
THIS DAY IN MUSIC, December 19, 1964:
🎤 Diana Ross & The Supremes score their third No. 1 single of 1964 with “Come See About Me,” which holds the top spot for a week. What's YOUR favorite work by these Motown Records dynamos?
🖌️ Album art: Motown Records
#60s #motown #supremes
December 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM