- 1949 KGO TV channel 7 in San Francisco, California (ABC) begins broadcasting
Out of This World
1951 Cole Porter's musical "Out of This World" an adaptation of Titus Plautus's mythological comedy Amphitryon, starring George Gaynes, closes at New Century Theater, NYC, after 157 performances
- 1952 "Lucy Does a TV Commercial" (also known as "Vitameatavegamin") episode of "I Love Lucy" premieres, garnering 68% of US television viewers
- 1958 KNME TV channel 5 in Albuquerque, NM (PBS) begins broadcasting
West Side Story
1962 "West Side Story" soundtrack album goes #1 and stays #1 for 54 weeks, more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
Sally Marr...and Her Escorts
1994 Joan Rivers and Erin Sander's stage comedy "Sally Marr...and Her Escorts", starring Joan Rivers, opens at the Helen Hayes Theatre, NYC; runs for 50 performances
- 1996 Nicol Williamson and Leslie Megahey's stage play "Jack: A Night on the Town with John Barrymore", starring Nicol Williamson, closes at the Belasco Theatre, NYC, after 12 performances
- 1997 Final episode of the TV sitcom "Married... with Children" airs on Fox
This is America
2018 Childish Gambino [Donald Glover] releases the music video to new single "This is America" to wide acclaim
- 2025 Skype, the pioneering online video calling service established in 2003, is taken offline for good by Microsoft [1]
