It Happened One Night
1934 "It Happened One Night" directed by Frank Capra and starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert opens at NY's Radio City Music Hall (Academy Awards Best Picture, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay 1935)
Figure Skating World Championship
1936 Sonja Henie of Norway follows up her Winter Olympics victory with an incredible 10th consecutive women’s World Championship figure skating gold medal in Paris, France
- 1951 4th British Film and Television Awards (BAFTAs): "All About Eve" Best Film
1958 15th Golden Globes: "The Bridge on the River Kwai", Alec Guinness, and Joanne Woodward win
- 1965 Rodgers & Hammerstein's television musical "Cinderella", starring Lesley Ann Warren and Stuart Damon, with Pat Carroll and Celeste Holm, premieres on CBS-TV
Silent Sun
1968 Rock group Genesis release their 1st record "Silent Sun"
- 1973 "Turkish Delight" Holland's most successful film, directed by Paul Verhoeven and starring Rutger Hauer is released
- 1978 28th Berlin International Film Festival: "Las truchas" and "What Max Said" win the Golden Bear (tie)
- 1989 Pepsi-Cola airs its first Spanish commercial on network TV during the Grammy Awards broadcast on CBS
Strategic Defense Initiative
1989 UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls the proposed missile defense system known as Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"
- 1991 Kelli McCarty, 21, (Kansas), crowned 40th Miss USA
Streisand on SNL
1992 Barbra Streisand surprises cast members in a cameo appearance at the end of a "Coffee Talk" sketch on "Saturday Night Live"
Film & TV History
1996 Revival of William Inge's stage drama "Bus Stop", starring Billy Crudup and Mary-Louise Parker, opens at the Circle in the Square Theater, NYC; runs for 29 performances
- 2005 19th Soap Opera Digest Awards - "General Hospital" wins
2009 81st Academy Awards: "Slumdog Millionaire", Sean Penn and Kate Winslet win. Heath Ledger posthumously wins Best Supporting Actor for his performance as the Joker in "The Dark Knight".
2015 87th Academy Awards: "Best Picture - "Birdman", Best Director, and Best Screenplay - Alejandro González Iñárritu ("Birdman:"), Best Actor - Eddie Redmayne – ("The Theory of Everything"), Best Actress - Julianne Moore ("Still Alice")
- 2019 Actor Jussie Smollett suspended from US TV show "Empire" after revealed that actor made false claims about racist and homophobic attack
