- 1927 Earliest date for a film to be considered for an Academy Award
- 1934 The second Venice Film Festival opens
- 1953 KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, Missouri (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1953 KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, Oregon (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1954 WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse, Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1955 WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1956 KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, California (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1959 WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, Alabama (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1963 WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, Illinois (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1967 WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1968 WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, Ohio (IND) begins broadcasting
- 1970 KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, South Dakota (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1970 Second San Diego Comic-Con International opens at U.S. Grant Hotel
- 1971 CBS presents the first episode of BBC production "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" and continues weekly until September 5th
- 1979 12th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at U.S. Grant Hotel
Endless Love
1981 "Endless Love" single released by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie (Billboard Song of the Year 1981, Billboard Greatest Song Duet of All-Time)
- 1981 Music video cable channel MTV debuts in the US at 12:01 AM with The Buggles' song, "Video Killed the Radio Star"
1985 12th Daytime Emmy Award presentation: Susan Lucci loses for the sixth time
- 1985 18th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at Hotel San Diego
MTV Europe
1987 Music video channel MTV Europe launches with Elton John throwing the switch; "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits is the first video presented
Hedy Lamarr Arrested
1991 Actress Hedy Lamarr, aged 76, is arrested for shoplifting in Florida [1]
- 1992 NBC's "Saturday Today" premieres, extending the Today franchise to broadcasting seven days a week
- 1993 Actor Walter Koenig, known for Pavel Chekov in "Star Trek," undergoes heart surgery after suffering a heart attack
- 1995 Westinghouse purchases the CBS-TV network
A Game of Thrones
1996 George R. R. Martin publishes the epic fantasy novel "A Game of Thrones," the first in his series "A Song of Ice and Fire"
- 1996 Launch of MTV's second TV channel, M2
- 2002 35th San Diego Comic-Con International opens at San Diego Convention Center
- 2025 Corporation for Public Broadcasting, tasked with distributing government funding to public television and radio broadcasters since 1967, announces that it will begin shutting down, weeks after Congress canceled previously approved funding [1]
