This first week in May of 1954 saw the beginning of the infamous Army-McCarthy Hearings regarding Communist infiltrators within the Military. This broadcast, from May 5th, wraps up the days proceedings from May 4th, which was Day Nine in the seemingly never-ending hearings.

This was one of the first gavel-to-gavel live Senate hearings to be broadcast on radio and television. The first was the legendary Kefauver Crime Committee Hearings, and the audience for those hearings went through the roof.

Likewise with the Army-McCarthy Hearings, some four years later. These hearings were epitomized by the now-famous showdown between Chief Counsel Welsh and Sen. Joe McCarthy several weeks later that ended in the quote "Have you no shame, Senator?".

These days, with C-Span, we take hearings like this for granted. But in 1954 it was a first glimpse for many into the inner-workings of Capitol Hill.

So here is Day 9 as reported by George Herman and Griffing Bancroft of CBS Radio with excerpts from the days proceedings (for those who missed it live).

(The end of a 6 day standoff but the start of something a whole lot bigger)

May 5th 1980 marked the end of a six day standoff between a group claiming to be an Arab/Iranian independence group and Embassy officials in London.

It was one of the first times such a drama had been played out almost entirely in the media over the six day period. The details as to why a hostage situation was taking place were a bit fuzzy at first.

Douglas Edwards(CBS News): “The gunmen at the Embassy said they were Arabs from Iran who wanted the government to free 91 Arab political prisoners.”

But as the story unfolded, it became clear the "Iranian Arabs" were actually Iraqi's in what would eventually escalate into a full blown war between Iran and Iraq.

But on this day 30 years ago, the news was about the end of a hostage drama. It's also interesting to note that the day before, news of Yugoslavia's President Tito had died and speculation was rife as to what was going to happen in that particular region.

Both of those stories would develop into major events not anticipated before the decade was over.