Time Capsule Tales

President Barack Obama's armored limousine gets stuck on a ramp as it tries to leave the US embassy in Dublin, 2011.

Drunk fan in his underwear running on the field at a Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Washington Redskins pre-season game at Three Rivers Stadium in 1989.

Michael Jackson spending some time around London, 1999.

In the 1960s, “The Indian Staff Sergeant,” emerged as George Carlin's surefire crowd-pleaser.

Execution by hanging of William Joyce, nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw, who broadcast Nazi propaganda to the United Kingdom from Germany during World War II

Libyans line up to view body of Muammar Gadhafi, 2011.

B-25 Bomber crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building due to foggy conditions, killing 14 people, 1945.

On June 7, 1958, more than 15,000 people came to watch the launch of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald in River Rouge, Michigan. But the event didn't go quite as planned. Elizabeth Fitzgerald, wife of the new ship's namesake, christened the new freighter and needed three tries to break the champagne bottle. One spectator suffered a fatal heart attack. Workers struggled to free the keel blocks. And when the freighter finally hit the water, it sent a massive wave drenching the crowd.

After a one-night stand, two students - Seth Meyers * Amy Poehler - learn about each other while waiting for the results of a home-pregnancy test, SNL 2001.

Video game shopping at the mall in 1995.

In the late 1980s, Mr. Tape, real name Modris Skaistkalne, was one of the first Soviet DJs to compete at an international level. The Iron Curtain had cut off the USSR from most Western music for decades. Vinyl records of Western hip hop and funk were essentially impossible to find. State produced Soviet records of Alla Pugacheva and other approved pop stars were useless for the kind of DJing developing in New York and London. So Mr. Tape improvised. He recorded Western music directly off foreign radio broadcasts onto reels of magnetic tape. Then he taught himself to mix, cut, and scratch using two reel to reel decks.

In 1987, Mean Gene Okerlund asked Macho Man Randy Savage about his recent change in attitude, and Savage delivered one of the most legendary stream of consciousness promos in wrestling history.

Assassination attempt on King Edward VIII, king of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, 1936.

Mick Jagger & Keith Richards talking about the early days of the Rolling Stones, 1989.

Saturday at the county fair in Rockport, Massachusetts, 1959.

8 Nazi S.S. Officers being sentenced to death for the massacre of 86 civilians in the French village of Ascq during World War II after a German Troop train was derailed.

Nickelback performing "Figured You Out" live at Sturgis 2006.

Soccer stars on the red carpet in Argentina at Lionel Messi's wedding, 2017.

American skier (Amy Poehler) is vying for a gold medal in the Olympics when she meets two Mormons (Dan Aykroyd & Will Ferrell), SNL eason 27, 2002.

Buying a new cell phone at the Verizon kiosk in a mall, Illinois, 2000.

Massive rock slide on the American side of Niagara Falls sent roughly 185,000 tons of rock plunging into the Niagara River Gorge, 1954.