De Gaulle Calls for French Resistance
1940 General Charles de Gaulle makes his first speech on the BBC to the French people, since arriving in London, an appeal to defy Nazi occupiers - regarded as the beginning of French Resistance during WWII
Haw-Haw Charged with Treason
1945 William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), fascist politician and Nazi propaganda broadcaster, charged with treason in England
Plane Crash
1947 Gene Roddenberry survives plane crash in the Syrian Desert while working for Pan American World Airways
- 1953 3rd Berlin International Film Festival: "The Wages of Fear" wins Golden Bear (audience vote)
- 1954 4th Berlin International Film Festival: "Hobson's Choice" wins Golden Bear (audience vote)
- 1959 New York City premiere of the film version of Kathryn Hulme's "The Nun's Story"
- 1961 CBS radio cancels Gunsmoke
- 1961 KBMT TV channel 12 in Beaumont, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1975 NBC News & Information Service (24 hr news) premieres on radio
- 1982 ABC's All Talk radio network expands to 22 stations
- 1987 Charles Glass, ABC journalist, kidnapped in Lebanon
Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam
1999 Hindi film "Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam" premieres directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, starring Salman Khan, Ajay Devgn and Aishwarya Rai
The Fast and the Furious
2001 "The Fast and the Furious" film directed by Rob Cohen starring Paul Walker, Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez premieres
AdSense Launched
2003 Google launches AdSense, a program that enables website publishers to serve ads targeted to the specific content of their individual web pages, many of which like On This Day (then HistoryOrb.com) go on to start their own publishing businesses
The Parting of the Ways
2005 David Tennant's first appearance as the Tenth Doctor in BBC "Doctor Who" episode "The Parting of the Ways"
- 2012 2nd Critics' Choice Television Awards: Community wins Best Comedy Series, Homeland wins Best Drama Series
Ian McKellen Honored
2014 British actor Ian McKellen is awarded an honorary degree by Cambridge University, becoming a Doctor of Letters
2022 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences apologizes to Sacheen Littlefeather for the treatment she received when she declined an Oscar on behalf of actor Marlon Brando in 1973 [1]
