- 1909 Dutch film distributor Jean Desmet opens his first permanent cinema, the Cinema Parisien in Rotterdam
- 1940 Robin (Dick Grayson) debuts as Batman's sidekick in issue 38 of Detective Comics by DC Comics
1959 11th Emmy Awards: Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr win
- 1967 WACS TV channel 25 in Dawson, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
Closing Time
1973 Asylum Records releases "Closing Time," the debut album by singer-songwriter Tom Waits
- 1978 Brian Clark's stage drama "Whose Life is it Anyway?" starring Tom Conti and Jane Asher, and directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg, opens at the Mermaid Theatre, London
Film & TV History
1985 Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "The King & I"
- 1996 10th American Comedy Award: James Burrows
- 2004 35th NAACP Image Awards: "The Fighting Temptations" wins Outstanding Motion Picture
- 2010 30th Golden Raspberry Awards: "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" wins
- 2016 Seventh Democratic presidential candidates debate hosted by CNN and held in Flint, Michigan