The Last Days of Mankind
1919 Frank Wedekind's play "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit (The Last Days of Mankind)" premieres
- 1919 Wilson Collison and Otto Harbach's stage comedy "Up in Mabel's Room" opens at the Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre, NYC; runs for 229 performances
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
1948 "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre", film based on B. Traven's novel, directed by John Huston and starring Humphrey Bogart premieres
- 1956 KWAB TV channel 4 in Big Spring, TX (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1958 New York Yankees announce that 140 MLB games to be televised on WPIX TV this season in a deal worth over $1 million dollars
Rolling Stones Alter Lyrics for Show
1967 Rolling Stones appear for the fifth time on the Ed Sullivan Show, reluctantly agree to alter lyrics of "Let's Spend The Night Together" [1] [2]
- 1968 KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting
- 1972 TV drama "Emergency" with Randolph Mantooth and Robert Fuller premieres on NBC TV
- 1973 Movie critic Gene Shalit joins NBC's "The Today Show" panel
Happy Days
1974 TV sitcom "Happy Days" created by Garry Marshall and starring Ron Howard, Henry Winkler, Marion Ross, and Tom Bosley, begins an 11 year run on ABC
Diller's Hollywood Star
1975 Pioneering American female comedian Phyllis Diller gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
- 1975 Space Mountain opens at Disney World in Orlando, Florida
- 1977 Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live"
- 1981 Police drama "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC
- 1985 CBS' premiere of TV made teen drug abuse drama, "Not My Kid", based on the previous year's book by Beth Polson
- 1986 Living Seas opens (Disneyland)
- 1988 NFL analyst Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes several questionable comments about African Americans during a lunchtime interview on CBS' NFL Today; fired the next day
- 1989 10th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins the Golden CableACE for "Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam"
- 1989 Big John Studd wins WWF's 2nd Royal Rumble
- 1990 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards: Santa Barbara wins
- 1993 Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends
1998 "Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends" documentary premieres on BBC2
- 2010 15th Critics' Choice Movie Awards: The Hurt Locker wins Best Film
- 2015 20th Critics' Choice Movie Awards: Boyhood wins Best Film
WandaVision
2021 TV series "WandaVision" starring Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch and Paul Bettany as Vision debuts on Disney+
The Music Man
2023 Revival of Meredith Willson's musical "The Music Man", starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, closes at the Winter Garden Theater, NYC, after 373 performances
- 2024 75th Emmy Awards: "Succession" Best Drama, "The Bear" Best Comedy, "Beef" Best Limited Series
