- 1895 Filmmakers the Lumière brothers hold the first commercial film screening at the Salon Indien du Grand Café in Paris
Bright Eyes
1934 Film "Bright Eyes" premieres starring Shirley Temple and featuring the song "On the Good Ship Lollipop"
- 1949 20th Century Fox announces it will produce TV programs
- 1953 WLBT TV channel 3 in Jackson, Mississippi (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1954 KEPR TV channel 19 in Pasco-Kennewick-Richl, WA (CBS) 1st broadcast
- 1956 Miss Frances [Horwich], last Ding Dong School on NBC-TV
- 1957 CBS says it will not broadcast baseball games in markets where minor league games are being played
Jennie
1963 Arthur Schwartz and Howard Dietz's musical "Jennie", starring Mary Martin, closes at the Majestic Theater, NYC, after 82 performances
- 1967 KTSB (now KSNT) TV channel 27 in Topeka, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1968 KVOF (KUDO, now KWBB) TV channel 38 in San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast
Last of the Red Hot Lovers
1969 Neil Simon's play "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" premieres in NYC
- 1991 Ninibeth Beatriz Leal Jiminez, 20, of Venez, crowned 41st Miss World
The Madness of King George
1994 "The Madness of King George" film based on the play by Alan Bennett, directed by Nicholas Hytner, starring Nigel Hawthorne and Helen Mirren premieres in the US
Pullman, Palin, Twiggy Knighted
2018 British New Year's honours list include Knights for author Philip Pullman and comedian Michael Palin, a Dame for Twiggy and a Order of the Companions of Honour for Margaret Atwood
