- 1880 Steele MacKay's play "Hazel Kirke" premieres in New York City
First African-American TV Executive
1952 Jackie Robinson becomes the 1st African American executive of a major US TV and radio station as Director of Community Activities at radio WNBC-NY and TV station WNBT
- 1960 Lionel Bart's musical comedy "Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'be" opens at Garrick Theatre, London; runs for 886 pefromances
Film & TV History
1962 St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital opens in Memphis, Tennessee; funding for the cancer fighting facility led by entertainer Danny Thomas
Patton
1970 Biographical film "Patton" directed by Franklin J. Schaffner and starring George C. Scott premieres in New York (Academy Awards Best Picture 1971)
- 1979 "Co-Ed Fever," TV Comedy, debut & cancelled that outing on CBS
Trebak Makes Game Show History
1991 Alex Trebek becomes first person to host three American game shows at the same time (Jeopardy!, Classic Concentration, To Tell the Truth)
- 1994 10th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
- 2000 Simulation video game "The Sims" developed by Maxis released in North America
- 2016 Fifth Democratic presidential candidates debate, broadcast on MSNBC, held in Durham, New Hampshire
Rush Limbaugh Honored
2020 Radio personality Rush Limbaugh is presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Donald Trump during the State Of The Union Address
