Casey vs. Thesz
1938 Steve Casey beats Lou Thesz in Boston to win the American Wrestling Association World Heavyweight Championship
1st Science Fiction TV Show
1938 World's first science fiction TV program is a broadcast of the play R.U.R. by Karel Čapek
- 1954 6th Emmy Awards: I Love Lucy, Donald O'Connor & Eve Arden win
- 1957 KUMV TV channel 8 in Williston, ND (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1958 BBC pioneering series "Your Life in Their Hands" first broadcast presented by Dr. Charles Fletcher, 1st major TV series to deal with medicine
- 1958 WTVC TV channel 9 in Chattanooga, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
Sarah T: Portrait of A Teenage Alcoholic
1975 TV drama "Sarah T: Portrait of A Teenage Alcoholic" starring Linda Blair, premieres on US network NBC
They're Playing Our Song
1979 Marvin Hamlisch, Carole Bayer Sager, and Neil Simon's musical "They're Playing Our Song", starring Robert Klein and Lucie Arnaz, opens at Imperial Theatre, NYC; runs for 1082 performances
"Weird Al" Yankovic
1983 "Weird Al" Yankovic records "Ricky" and "Buckingham Blues" to complete his debut LP, at Scotti Brothers Studio in Santa Monica, California
- 1993 43rd Berlin International Film Festival: "Woman Sesame Oil Maker" and "The Wedding Banquet" win the Golden Bear (tie)
- 1994 Lu Parker of South Carolina is crowned the 43rd Miss USA
- 1998 48th Berlin International Film Festival: "Central Station" wins the Golden Bear
- 2007 60th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs): "The Queen" Best Film, Paul Greengrass Best Director
Geller Buys Lamb Island
2009 Uri Geller purchases Lamb Island, Scotland, previously known for its witch trials
- 2010 60th Berlin International Film Festival: "Honey" wins the Golden Bear
- 2014 11 people are killed after a grenade was tossed into a movie theatre in Peshawar, Pakistan
- 2016 Sixth Democratic presidential candidates debate, broadcast on CNN and PBS, and held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- 2024 Super Bowl LVIII is the most-watched TV program in US history, averaging 123.4 million viewers across television and streaming platforms [1]
