Disney Starts Work
1920 Walt Disney starts work as an artist with KC Slide Co for $40 a week
Look Ma, I'm Dancin'
1948 Hugh Martin's musical comedy "Look Ma, I'm Dancin'" starring Nancy Walker and choreographed by Jerome Robbins, opens at Adelphi Theater, NYC; runs for 188 performances
- 1959 Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" is released
- 1964 NBC purchases AFL 5 year (1965-69) TV rights for $36 million
Sweet Charity
1966 Neil Simon, Cy Coleman, and Dorothy Fields' musical "Sweet Charity", starring Gwen Verdon, and directed by Bob Fosse, opens at the Palace Theater, NYC for 608 performances, winning a Tony Award for choreogrphy
- 1967 WDAZ TV channel 8 in Devils Lake, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1975 First American Annual Comedy Awards, hosted by Alan King
- 1989 5th Sundance Film Festival: "True Love" wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
- 1995 11th Sundance Film Festival: "The Brothers McMullen" and "The Young Poisoner's Handbook" (tie) win Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
- 2006 22nd Sundance Film Festival: "Quinceanera", directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
Hattie McDaniel Stamp
2006 US Postal Service releases 39-cent stamp featuring Hattie McDaniel in the dress she wore in 1940 when she became the 1st African-American actress to accept an Academy Award
- 2012 28th Sundance Film Festival: "The House I Live In", directed by Eugene Jarecki, wins Grand Jury Prize Dramatic
