- 1952 KROD (now KDBC) TV channel 4 in El Paso, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1954 WOAY TV channel 4 in Oak Hill-Beckley, WV (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1971 U.S. premiere of "Nicholas and Alexandra", film adaptation of Robert K. Massie's best selling novel
Peg
1983 Peggy Lee's one-woman show "Peg" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater, NYC; runs for 5 performances
- 1988 CBS' $1.1 B bid wins exclusive 1990-94 major-league baseball rights
Philadelphia
1993 "Philadelphia", one of the first mainstream films about AIDS, directed by Jonathan Demme, starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington, premieres in Century City, California
- 1996 12th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
A View From the Bridge
1997 Revival of Arthur Miller's dramatic play "A View From the Bridge", starring Anthony LaPaglia, Allison Janney, and Brittany Murphy. opens at the Criterion Theater, NYC; runs for 239 performance, wins 2 Tony and 4 Drama Desk Awards
- 2017 The Walt Disney Company buys most of 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion
- 2019 Bel Air mansion featured in TV series "The Beverly Hillbillies" sells for $150 million, becoming California's most expensive property
- 2019 Miss World is won by Miss Jamaica Toni-Ann Singh in London, the first time all five major beauty titles are held by black women
