- 1931 Singer Kate Smith begins her long-running association with CBS radio, various programs continue until 1945
1939 Batman first appears in Detective Comics #27
Citizen Kane
1941 "Citizen Kane," directed by Orson Welles and starring himself, Joseph Cotten, and Dorothy Comingore, premieres at the Palace Theater in New York City
- 1950 WJIM (now WLNS) TV channel 6 in Lansing, Michigan (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1954 WAPA TV channel 4 in San Juan, Puerto Rico (NBC/SFN) begins broadcasting
King's First Radio Broadcast
1957 Larry King makes his first radio broadcast on station WAHR (1490 AM) in Miami Beach, Florida
- 1960 7th National Film Awards (India): "Apur Sansar" wins the Golden Lotus
PBS Funding
1969 Children's educational television host Fred Rogers testifies before US Senate Subcommittee on Communications to secure funding for creation of PBS
- 1976 Empress Lilly, a replica paddle steamer, is dedicated at Walt Disney World in Florida
Snake in the Eagle's Shadow
1978 Jackie Chan's breakthrough film "Snake in the Eagle's Shadow" directed by Yuen Woo-ping, is released in Hong Kong
- 1980 Frank Lazarus and Dick Vosburgh's musical double feature "A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine" opens at the John Golden Theatre in NYC and runs for 588 performances
- 1989 135 acre Disney's MGM studio theme park officially opens to public in Lake Buena Vista, Florida
- 1994 American broadcast journalist Charles Kuralt (On the Road) retires from CBS after 37 years
SpongeBob SquarePants
1999 Animated series "SpongeBob SquarePants," created by Stephen Hillenburg, debuts on Nickelodeon
Kate Moss for Topshop
2007 British model Kate Moss launches a clothing line with chain Topshop
- 2018 Chinese authorities label British cartoon "Peppa Pig" subversive and it is removed from the Douyin video website
- 2019 New York City officially names a street Sesame Street at the intersection of West 63rd Street and Broadway in honor of the show's 50th anniversary
