Hergé's First Comic Strip
1926 Belgian scouting magazine Le Boy Scout Belge publishes "The Adventures of Totor" by cartoonist Hergé, his first comic strip series and a precursor to Tintin
- 1941 Bulova Watch Company pays $9 for the first ever television commercial, which airs during a broadcast of Brooklyn Dodgers-Philadelphia Phillies baseball game
- 1941 WCBW-TV (now WCBS), channel 2 in New York City begins broadcasting
- 1941 WNBT-TV (now WNBC), channel 4 in New York City begins broadcasting
- 1949 WBRC TV channel 6 in Birmingham, Alabama (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1949 WCCO TV channel 4 in Minneapolis, Minnesota (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1950 WHBF TV channel 4 in Rock Island, Illinois (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1952 English architect Michael Ventris says he has solved one of the 20th century's greatest linguistic riddles, by deciphering Linear B in BBC interview. Is an ancient form of Greek on clay tablets from Minoan palace of Knossos. [1]
- 1953 KLAS TV channel 8 in Las Vegas, Nevada (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1953 KTVH (now KWCH) TV channel 12 in Hutchinson, Kansas (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1954 WDBO (now WCPX) TV channel 6 in Orlando, Florida (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1955 KOTA TV channel 3 in Rapid City, South Dakota (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1957 WRLP TV channel 32 in Greenfield (Massachusetts), Keene (New Hampshire), and Brattleboro (Vermont), (IND) begins broadcasting
- 1958 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave
- 1959 WVTV TV channel 18 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (IND) begins broadcasting
- 1961 KNDU TV channel 25 in Richland-Pasco-Kennewick, Washington (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1966 First color television transmission in Canada is broadcast from Toronto
- 1967 BBC starts its World Radio Club
- 1967 First British colour TV is broadcast on BBC 2
- 1975 WEDway People Mover opens in Tomorrowland, Disney World, Florida
- 1982 ABC "Superadio," a 24-hour national music radio network, scheduled premiere; canceled and never happens
- 1992 Fox Broadcasting adds Wednesday night TV programming
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
2009 Animated film "Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs," directed by Carlos Saldanha and Mike Thurmeieris with voices by Ray Romano and John Leguizamo, is released
