Der Zarewitsch
1927 Franz Lehár's operetta "Der Zarewitsch", starring tenor Richard Tauber, premieres at the Deutsches Künstlertheater in Berlin, Germany
The Marquis
1927 Noël Coward's stage comedy "The Marquise", starring Marie Tempest, opens at the Criterion Theatre, London; runs for 129 performances
- 1948 1st newsreel telecast, "20th Century Fox-Movietone News," shown on NBC
- 1950 Longest-running prime-time game show, "What's My Line" begins on CBS
- 1954 WNEM TV channel 5 in Bay City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1957 The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television close down between 6 and 7 pm, abolished in the United Kingdom
- 1962 "La Jetée", French film directed by Chris Marker, starring Hélène Chatelain, Davos Hanich and Jacques Ledoux, is released
Foxy
1964 Robert Emmett Dolan and Johnny Mercer's musical "Foxy", starring Bert Lahr, opens at Ziegfeld Theater, NYC; runs for 72 performances, with Lahr winning a Tony Award
1964 Second appearance of the Beatles on "The Ed Sullivan Show", live from Deauville Hotel in Miami, Florida; broadcast draws about 70 million television viewers
Andrei Rublev
1969 "Andrei Rublev", Russian film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, starring Anatoly Solonitsyn and Ivan Lapikov, premieres in Moscow after a limited release in 1966
- 1979 Los Angeles premiere of Paul Schrader's allegedly fact based film "Hardcore"
The Apprentice UK
2005 The UK version of "The Apprentice" with British business magnate Alan Sugar premieres on the BBC
Film & TV History
2013 Angelina Jolie undergoes a preventive double mastectomy after learning she had an 87% risk of developing breast cancer due to a defective BRCA1 gene
- 2019 69th Berlin International Film Festival: Israeli film "Synonyms" wins the Golden Bear
2025 78th British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs): "Conclave" Best Film, Best Director Brady Corbet for "The Brutalist", acting awards to Adrien Brody and Mikey Madison [1]
- 2025 Saturday Night Live celebrates 50 years with a special show “SNL50: The Anniversary Special” with celebrity guests and returning cast members [1]
