- 1932 1st US radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD)
- 1935 Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network
Glenn Miller's 1st Film
1941 Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie "Sun Valley Serenade", starring Sonja Henie and John Payne, for 20th Century Fox
- 1949 21st Academy Awards: "Hamlet", Laurence Olivier & Jane Wyman win, Walter & John Huston become 1st father-and-son team to win awards
Film & TV History
1955 Tennessee Williams' stage drama "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", starring Ben Gazzarra, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Burl Ives, and directed by Elia Kazan, opens at the Morosco Theater, NYC; runs for 694 performances and wins a Pulitzer Prize
Boxing Title Fight
1962 Emile Griffith beats Benny " Kid" Paret by TKO in 12th round in welterweight boxing title fight at MSG, NYC; Paret dies 10 days later; first use of television slow motion replay
- 1973 Harley Race beats Dory Funk Jr in Kansas City, to become NWA professional wrestling champ
Tony Awards
1977 Lily Tomlin is the first woman to appear solo in a Broadway show in "Appearing Nitely" (special Tony award 1977)
- 1980 "Nightline with Ted Koppel" premieres on ABC
1980 ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline"
Film & TV History
1989 NBC rebroadcasts Mary Martin and Cyril Ritchard's 1960 version of "Peter Pan" for the first time since 1973
- 1991 11th Golden Raspberry Awards: Ford Fairlane & Ghosts Can't Do It wins
1991 WrestleMania VII in LA Memorial Sports Arena, CA: Hulk Hogan beats Sgt Slaughter for WWF Heavyweight title
- 1996 16th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Showgirls" wins
The Matrix
1999 "The Matrix" film written and directed by The Wachowskis, starring Keanu Reeve, Lawrence Fishburne and Carrie-Ann Moss premieres
- 2001 21st Golden Raspberry Awards: "Battlefield Earth" wins
Bright Star
2016 Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's musical "Bright Star" opens at the Cort Theatre, NYC; runs for 100 performances
