- 1897 Oldest continuously operating movie theater in the world, the State Theatre first opens in Washington, Iowa (Guinness World Records)
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938 "The Adventures of Robin Hood", directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley, and starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland premieres
- 1948 WBEN (now WIVB) TV channel 4 in Buffalo, NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1951 "The Ernie Kovacs Show", a television variety program debuts on NBC-TV
- 1964 17th Cannes Film Festival: "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg" directed by Jacques Demy wins the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
- 1972 24th Emmy Awards: "All in the Family", Carrol O'Conner & Jean Stapleton win
- 1973 French film "Day for Night" written and directed by François Truffaut, starring Jacqueline Bisset and Jean-Pierre Léaud premieres at Cannes (Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film)
- 1975 Cult feminist film "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" written and directed by Chantal Ackerman and starring Delphine Seyrig premieres at Cannes
- 1979 "Kids Are All Right" rockumentary film featuring The Who premieres at the Cannes Film Festival
Stalker
1979 "Stalker", Russian film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, starring Alexander Kaidanovsky and Anatoli Solonitsyn, is released
- 1989 Final TV episode of "Family Ties" airs on NBC with a 36 million audience
- 1989 Moonlighting, TV Crime Drama last airs on ABC
Film & TV History
1993 The 1,000th episode of "The Arsenio Hall Show" airs, featuring a retrospective
Television Finale
1998 Seinfeld's final two-part episode "The Finale" airs on NBC-TV to 76.3 million viewers, with commercials priced at $2 million for 30 seconds
- 2000 "Yi Yi" Taiwanese film by Edward Yang debuts at Cannes
- 2000 46th British Academy Television Awards: "The League of Gentlemen" Best Comedy, "The Cops" Best Drama
Inferno
2013 Dan Brown's fourth novel starring Robert Langdon (The Da Vinci Code), titled "Inferno", is released and instantly becomes a bestseller
Film & TV History
2018 Melania Trump, wife of US President Donald Trump, is treated in hospital for a benign kidney condition
2023 69th British Academy Television Awards: "Bad Sisters" Best Drama, Ben Whishaw and Kate Winslet win best acting awards
