- 1936 "Lux Radio Theater" moved from NYC to Hollywood
1st Major Fight on Television
1939 First major boxing match on US television is the heavyweight bout from NY's Yankee Stadium between former world champion Max Baer and Lou Nova; Nova wins by TKO in 11th round
- 1943 Germany shoots down a civilian flight from Lisbon to London, 13 passengers, included actor Leslie Howard, and 4 crew die
- 1949 KSL TV channel 5 in Salt Lake City, UT (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1950 WKZO (now WWMT) TV channel 3 in Kalamazoo, MI (CBS) 1st broadcast
- 1953 KMJ (now KSEE) TV channel 24 in Fresno, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1953 WDAY TV channel 6 in Fargo, ND (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1960 WDTV TV channel 5 in Clarksburg-Weston, West Vrirginia (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1965 Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson at Bell Labs detect 3 K cosmic microwave background radiation, helping confirm the Big Bang theory (1978 Nobel Prize) [1]
- 1969 Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio & TV
- 1980 First transmission of the Cable News Network or CNN
- 1990 Cowboy Channel on cable TV begins transmitting
CBS Evening News Anchors
1993 Connie Chung joins Dan Rather as co-anchor of the CBS Evening News
- 1994 FX Channel, Cable Network, debuts
Harrelson Arrested
1996 American actor Woody Harrelson is arrested in Lee County, Kentucky, after he symbolically planted four hemp seeds to challenge the state law which did not distinguish between industrial hemp and marijuana
- 1997 1st NY Women Film Festival opens
Once Upon a Mattress
1997 Revival of Mary Rodgers and Marshall Barer's musical comedy "Once Upon a Mattress", starring Sarah Jessica Parker, closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 188 performances
- 2008 A fire at the backlot of Universal Studios Hollywood destroys several icons from movies, such as Courthouse Square, the clock tower from Back to the Future, and the King Kong exhibit on the studio tour.
- 2019 Price of a movie ticket rises in Japan for the first time in 26 years from ¥1,800 to ¥1,900, while some cinemas keep the price the same
