- 1920 German silent horror film classic "The Cabinet of Dr Caligari" starring Werner Krauss is released
1947 4th Golden Globes: "The Best Years of Our Lives", Gregory Peck, & Rosalind Russell win
- 1955 Jean Shepherd, American humorist and storyteller, begins long-running radio program on WOR-AM in NYC
Peter Pan
1955 Leigh, Charlap, Styne, Comden and Green's musical "Peter Pan", starring Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard, closes at Winter Garden Theater, NYC, after 152 performances
Film & TV History
1960 Vera Miles stars in the "Mirror Image" episode of the CBS anthology series "The Twilight Zone"
- 1966 KBIM TV channel 10 in Roswell, NM (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1975 1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show)
- 1979 CBS' premiere of NYC sitcom "Flatbush", which received many derision phone calls about it from Brooklynites to CBS
Music History
1989 "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater, NYC; runs for 634 performances
- 1993 9th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
Film & TV History
1998 Oprah Winfrey found not guilty in beef defamation trial brought by Texas cattlemen
- 1999 15th Soap Opera Digest Awards - General Hospital wins
- 2005 25th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Catwoman" wins
- 2010 41st NAACP Image Awards: "Precious" wins Outstanding Motion Picture
- 2011 31st Golden Raspberry Awards: "The Last Airbender" wins
2012 84th Academy Awards: "The Artist" wins five Oscars and becomes the first silent film to win since 1927, Jean Dujardin and Meryl Streep also win
Film & TV History
2014 Seth Rogen testifies about Alzheimer's disease before the United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services
2017 89th Academy Awards: Best Picture "Moonlight" (after mix-up), Best Director Damien Chazelle, Best Actor Casey Affleck, Best Actress Emma Stone
- 2023 Dilbert comic strip creator Scott Adams faces widespread condemnation for his comments about African Americans in a YouTube show, prompting his strip and up-coming book to be cancelled [1]
